Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly denied knowing about the Project 2025 policy blueprint or the people behind it. “Have no idea who is in charge of it,” he wrote in a social media post in July.

But in April 2022, Trump shared a 45-minute private flight with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, according to people familiar with the trip, plane-tracking data and a photograph from on board the plane, which has not been previously reported. They flew together to a Heritage conference where Trump delivered a keynote address that gestured to Heritage’s forthcoming policy proposals.

“They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do,” Trump said in the speech.

Separately, Roberts told The Washington Post in an interview in April of this year that he had previously discussed Project 2025 with Trump as part of offering briefings to all presidential candidates. “I personally have talked to President Trump about Project 2025,” he said in the interview, “because my role in the project has been to make sure that all of the candidates who have responded to our offer for a briefing on Project 2025 get one from me.”

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Well, then. It's not as if anyone took Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 with any degree of seriousness, but if there was any question, this ends the debate.

Saying they will lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do is pretty self explanatory. Throwing in the 'exactly' is just the cherry on top.

The groundwork he is talking about is the list of the dozens of thousands of MAGA loyalists, that have been vetted already, ready to step in and fill the positions of career public servants he intends to fire en masse.

Here are some of the other details from the Project 2025 wish list:


His spokespeople can keep claiming he knows nothing about anything, he can issue threats to news agencies about connecting him to the Project, but the cat's out of the bag.

And his VP is also connected to the project, gives speeches for the foundation, even recently, and writes forewords to their books. And as for Trump, you don't ferry the president of that foundation on your gilded plane, then give a speech at that conference, and then honestly say you know nothing about it. No intelligent person would fall for it.

a reply to: Mahogani

Uh Oh...Kamala flew on Trump's plane too.

Kamala Harris took a ride on Trump's gilded plane in 1994, book says

www.businessinsider.com...

Do you suppose they are in cahoots too?

Oh, the possibilities.

a reply to: CarlLaFong

Yes - they probably are.

If you're afraid of 2025, wait till you see 2026 ... people are going to have opinions then too.

originally posted by: Dandandat3
a reply to: CarlLaFong

Yes - they probably are.

WOW! THIS IS BIG!
Get that thread up ASAP!

a reply to: Mahogani

Kevin Roberts has also been on Twitter and podcasts talking about how he understands that it's a "tactical move politically" for Trump to distance himself from Project 2025 and that he and others are looking forward to being a part of his 2nd administration. That they have a good relationship.

So uh yeah. I mean we already knew he lied when he said he didn't know a thing about it. I mean even when his team vetted Vance, no one mentioned he was knee deep in it? Yeah. We see.

That settles it; Trump is now a full-fledged, certified politician who can lie with the best of them and try to distance himself from his past!

Which liar will the people choose in November? remember, this election is NOT about policies; it's a popularity contest and input from the voters is no longer a requirement in presidential elections.

Considering the outlook for the House and the Senate even if Trump wins the makeup for the House and the Senate especially moderate Republicans means there's virtually no chance of Project 2025's platform being legislated and acted upon. The political climate doesn't support it. But Trump has to dance with the evangelicals to get elected.

It's no different than BIden's and Kamala's dance with the Progressives

It's why Ive always been against lobbying by corporate and special interest groups, LOL that doesn't have bipartisan support either

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And now, Kevin Roberts book which expounds upon these points of Project 2025 has delayed it's publication until AFTER the election. The book has a forward written by Vance

The book, “Dawn’s Early Light,” was scheduled to be published in September but will now be released in November. The delay was reported earlier by RealClearPolitics.

www.nytimes.com...

Part of Vance's forward is this.

We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”

www.yahoo.com...

Why would this book be delayed. One would expect that it would come out as originally planned. One would expect that Trump and Vance both would openly embrace it now as the keystone of their platform. But they have not, they have distanced themselves from this Project.Why. Could it be that they know that this Project will condemn them in the eyes of the majority of Americans?

a reply to: CarlLaFong

Did Trump join her on the flight like he clearly and gladly did with Kevin Roberts?

Did you know Kevin Roberts headed the "project 2025"?

So you're saying Trump has no clue to what project 2025 is as he has proclaimed many times?

a reply to: strongfp

Apparently, the point of the OP's ludicrous thread is that if you share a ride on Trump's plane, you automatically share ideology with Trump.

Ridiculous premise...but the OP went with it anyway.

And while you appear hungry for it...and good on you for that...it strikes me as desperate, tin foil-wrapped, propaganda frantically applied to assuage hurt feels over your loser democrat ticket.

a reply to: CarlLaFong

I think you're missing the aspect that Trump didn't accompany Harris, yet he gladly accommodated Roberts, recently, and now objects to knowing what project 2025 is.

Does that not make you question anything?

a reply to: Mahogani

"" according to people familiar with the trip "" 🤣💥

But did Trump endorse The 2025 Project during his speech that day?

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: CarlLaFong

I think you're missing the aspect that Trump didn't accompany Harris, yet he gladly accommodated Roberts, recently, and now objects to knowing what project 2025 is.

Does that not make you question anything?

Why should it? I fully expect conservatives to run in the same circles.

Project 2025 is the Left's Critical Race theory... a means to scare their base into getting out to vote.

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: CarlLaFong

I think you're missing the aspect that Trump didn't accompany Harris, yet he gladly accommodated Roberts, recently, and now objects to knowing what project 2025 is.

Does that not make you question anything?

Why would it when Trump's actions and words are what we are judging his potential over the idiots on the left. Right now I would pick Romney over ANY Dem and he is almost one he is so RINO.

Since when is it illegal to fly with someone. Is there where we are in America now? They were not going to Epstien Island for farts sake.

Project 2025, as whole, is an idea. This happens all the time and every election cycle. Want to see some really scary stuff?

Look at this.

Link

The Progressive Policy Institute is a catalyst for policy innovation and political reform with offices in Washington D.C., Brussels and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to create radically pragmatic ideas for moving America beyond ideological and partisan deadlock.

What is the difference? This is for lobbying money. The oldest thing in DC.

The roughly six dozen federal policy recommendations in this report are organized into 12 overarching priorities: I. Replace Taxes on Work with Taxes on Consumption and Unearned Income
II. Make the Individual Income Tax Code Simpler and More Progressive
III. Reform the Business Tax Code to Promote Growth and International Competitiveness
IV. Secure America’s Global Leadership
V. Strengthen Social Security’s Intergenerational Compact
VI. Modernize Medicare VII. Cut Health-Care Costs and Improve Outcomes
VIII. Support Working Families and Economic Opportunity
IX. Make Housing Affordable for All
X. Rationalize Safety-Net Programs
XI. Improve Public Administration
XII. Manage Public Debt Responsibly

Not one of those things would help me. It is all global agenda BS. Dreams. Just as weird as most of Project 2025 but that is what these think tanks are about.

originally posted by: Dandandat3

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: CarlLaFong

I think you're missing the aspect that Trump didn't accompany Harris, yet he gladly accommodated Roberts, recently, and now objects to knowing what project 2025 is.

Does that not make you question anything?

Why should it? I fully expect conservatives to run in the same circles.

Project 2025 is the Left's Critical Race theory... a means to scare their base into getting out to vote.

Why does Trump consistently try to distance himself from Roberts' project then?

Trump isn't necessarily conservative, he's his own tune, a corporatist to be honest.

a reply to: CarlLaFong

Trump was not on the same flight as Harris. And The relationship between Harris and Brown wasn't a secret, she wasn't a mistress, they were 'boyfriend and girlfriend'.

Again, why is Trump pictured with Roberts yet denies the existence of project 2025?