Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

I came across a lot of interesting news this morning and this will be a part of a triple bill of posts for today. This one comes from the non-profit investigative journalism outfit -- ProPublica. They don't do daily news, and if you bookmark them there will be days when nothing changes on the front page. They take their time to dig deep and sometimes there is a month or two between their exposés.

This one is regarding Project 2025, the not-so-secret project tied to Donald Trump, that has been created as a blueprint for his next administration, should he win in 2025. He has tried, unsuccessfully, to distance himself from the Project, and its parent Heritage Foundation, but interviews, videos, photos and reading materials keep coming out that contradict his attempts.

ProPublica just came out with 23 secret Project 2025 training videos provided to them by an insider, totaling over 14 hours of content.

Link to Article | Link to Videos

Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track.

One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing Freedom of Information Act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren’t struck down by “left-wing judges.” Some of the content is routine advice that any incoming political appointee might be told. Other segments of the training offer guidance on radically changing how the federal government works and what it does.

I will just link to the first two of the training videos, in no particular order of importance, and you may click on the link above to get access to all 14 of them. Below those two videos, I will insert a few quotes from that page on who is in these videos, and where they worked previously. I think you'll find it very revealing.

Here are some of the people who are making these videos for Project 2025:

In “Political Appointees & The Federal Workforce,” Chretien discusses the critical role that he says political appointees play in carrying out the vision of a conservative administration.

Chretien served in the Trump administration as special assistant to the president and associate director of presidential personnel.

In “Presidential Transitions & Appointee Hiring: What You Need To Know,” Ed Corrigan and Rick Dearborn outline how an aspiring political appointee can get a foot in the door during a presidential transition.

Dearborn is a former White House deputy chief of staff in the Trump administration, as well as executive director of Trump’s presidential transition team in 2016.

Corrigan has had a long career as a Senate staffer. He was part of Trump’s transition team and is now the president and CEO of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a prominent think tank based in Washington.

In “Deep Dive on The Federal Background Investigation & Security Clearance Process,” Kirk gives an overview of the federal government’s background check process, including what disqualifies an individual, like substance abuse issues, and what does not.

Kirk, an associate director of Project 2025, served in the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration.

In “The Political Appointee’s Survival Guide,” Bethany Kozma, who was the deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Trump administration, talks with six other former Trump administration staffers about what it’s like to serve as a political appointee in the federal government.

In “The Art of Professionalism,” Chris Hayes and Leavitt discuss tenets of how to act with professionalism while serving in government.

Hayes worked for the Leadership Institute, a think tank that offers leadership and management resources for the conservative movement.

Leavitt worked in the Trump White House press office and is now a spokesperson for Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign.

There is quite a bit more, this is just a sample. Enjoy the long read and the hours of videos. I have yet to go through all of the 14 hours, and I'm not entirely sure I'll have the time for all of it. But I do appreciate when lies are exposed and connections revealed for the public.

I say swing the curtains open entirely, and let the sun shine in.

a reply to: Mahogani

The only people "tying" the 2025 project to Trump are the same people that seem to be quite fine with the Socialist takeover of America.

Keep beating that dead horse, I guess...

Has everyone suddenly forgotten that Trump ran this country before and the only things that happened were actually good for tax-paying Americans?

I didn't see a Dictatorship happen the last time he was President, like I was warned was going to happen by the same people who now scream about the 2025 Project.

Perhaps you should focus on the 2030 Agenda if you are into doom porn.

Oh wait... the 2030 Agenda is an actual thing...

a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 will outlaw women with blue hair from owning more than 2 cats!

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 will outlaw women with blue hair from owning more than 2 cats!

And put hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, fire tens of thousands of career public servants to replace them with MAGA loyalists, upend protections for the majority of minority groups and so on.

Scary and weird stuff.

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 will outlaw women with blue hair from owning more than 2 cats!

And put hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, fire tens of thousands of career public servants to replace them with MAGA loyalists, upend protections for the majority of minority groups and so on.

Scary and weird stuff.

Absurd and boogyman stuff.

Seriously folks ... get a grip.

Didn't happen the first time Trump was in office.

Won't happen the second time if he gets in.

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 will outlaw women with blue hair from owning more than 2 cats!

And put hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, fire tens of thousands of career public servants to replace them with MAGA loyalists, upend protections for the majority of minority groups and so on.

Scary and weird stuff.

Your willful ignorance is off the charts, some of you squad members here need to seek help with your mental issues. This has become ridiculous and pathetic. Concentration camps? 🤣🤣🤣. Can’t get much more brainwashed than that.

a reply to: Mahogani

I heard it will also ban restaurants from serving French fries.

They'll be required to call them Freedom Fries!

OMG!

a reply to: Lumenari

Every single author of Project 2025 is associated with Trump in some way. Trump is on video multiple times praising the work they're doing. Vance wrote the forward to one of the main author's upcoming book (which was delayed until after the election.) The main people behind Project 2025 continue to talk about how they're in regular contact with Trump's team and will have prominent positions in a Trump administration.

The fact you guys keep trying to create distance between Trump and Project 2025 pretty much shows you know it's horrific.

But this is the plan Trump plans on enacting. So you either know it's horrific but you want it anyway or you've deluded yourself.

Which is it?

originally posted by: KrustyKrab
Concentration camps? 🤣🤣🤣. Can’t get much more brainwashed than that.

The morons on The View and Rachael Maddow are saying onair that they expect to be arrested and put in concentration camps if Trump is elected. It looks like the #tards actually believe that. And the brain dead idiots who watch those shows believe it too. It's garbage being spewed like that ... that is what gets innocent people shot.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Mahogani

I head it will also ban restaurants from serving French fries.

They'll be required to call them Freedom Fries!

OMG!

I heard it’s also going to force a Trump bible in every room in a household and a picture of Trump on the wall, non compliance will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and you’ll be sent away for life.

Kind of sad about the blue haired old lady’s though, the cats were starting to grow on me😭

a reply to: Threadbarer

Oh no!

Project 2025 is also going to require every one to back into parking spots!

a reply to: KrustyKrab

I know! Isn't it crazy?!

Project 2025 is going to make it illegal to leave shopping carts in parking spots too!!

a reply to: Threadbarer

The fact you guys keep trying to create distance between Trump and Project 2025 pretty much shows you know it's horrific.

Not even remotely as horrific as the bs agenda your party’s been pushing that’s destroying this country as we speak. Of course you can’t see it, amiright? Oblivion is blissful glee for some of ya’s I suppose.

a reply to: Mahogani

Wow eye opening.

The fear mongering rivals Fox during their heyday.

While you call them the "actual deepstate" I noticed none who actually hold an office.

From my perspective this 2025 is yet another form of projection. That being that you're afraid Trump may do what your betters are currently doing ...

Since the talking points are out, I'll just copy my response....

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 will outlaw women with blue hair from owning more than 2 cats!

And put hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, fire tens of thousands of career public servants to replace them with MAGA loyalists, upend protections for the majority of minority groups and so on.

Scary and weird stuff.

Public servants....

Just... Lol

originally posted by: Threadbarer
The fact you guys keep trying to create distance between Trump and Project 2025 pretty much shows you know it's horrific.

No one is 'trying to create distance between Trump and Project 2025.'
But the left wing lemmings ARE trying to create a link between
Trump and Project 2025. The left has to have a boogyman to keep
the useful idiots in line to keep them voting Democrat.

a reply to: Lumenari

Yes.

The same people fearful of the latest Christian Boogeyman are the same ones who support Queers for Palestine.


Just let it sink in ...

a reply to: Mahogani

A lot of children are scared of their first haircut, too!
You keep standing on the sideline thinking the other side is gonna get you, and you amplify your fear because you never get farther than the sideline. But honestly, is this not what the left has been organizing since Trump's first term? There was a lot of "training" going on with children in elementary school's curriculum, was there not? Colleges, universities, heck even social platforms wanted "their army." This seems to be another projection; accuse the other side of what your group is actually doing. Idiot followers in my eyes

The right side spreads fear, too! At least a lot of right leaning people on here. Y'all are literally two sides of the same coin, but you are too interested in proving the other side is wrong, that y'all don't work together to make it right.

Supposedly I'm a republican, but I haven't heard about this. Probably because I deal with people and their actions, instead of overreacting out of fear. I didn't retreat and hide because of the covid fiasco, either. You should try using your sense instead of just using emotions.

a reply to: Mahogani

And put hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, fire tens of thousands of career public servants to replace them with MAGA loyalists, upend protections for the majority of minority groups and so on.

If you actually believe this, you are too far gone to be reasoned with. Seriously, there is no coming back.

Scary and weird stuff.

But putting tampon machines in boys' school bathrooms, approving of abortion right up till the time of birth, and releasing violent criminals without bail is OK.

The democrats have been outted by paying social media influencers to make videos putting Kamala in a good light.

I guarentee you, they are here too, getting paid to post.

Take it for what it's worth. Just ignore these idiots. Let them waste their money.