Video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a 2nd Trump term

Link to long-ish article on CNN

A follower of Donald Trump, his advisor and his potential pick for Chief-of-Staff should he win again, Russel Vought, is known for another thing - he is the author of Project 2025, intended as a blueprint for Trump's second administration.

Vought sat down with two gentlemen he thought were Christian nationalists, ready to make a substantial donation to Project 2025, but instead he was sitting down with British journalists from a non-proft outfit Centre for Climate Reporting. For two hours, on video, Russ Vought explains the ins-and-outs of the now infamous blueprint for fascism, talks about all the executive orders already drafted and ready for Trump, talks about all the memos and regulations they have already written, and says that all of it has been blessed by Donald Trump.

Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.”

“Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said. “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”

They pulled a Project Veritas on this one and surreptitiously recorded their target, after they deceived the target on who they were. This is very rare in the US, but is more common of a practice in the UK journalism. It is effective though, particularly when a person, or groups of people, know what they are doing is wrong and take precautions to do it in the dark, away from prying eyes.

This is also a good way to determine whether Trump was losing his mind, or if he truly was a student of fascism. The fact is he is not crazy, at least not as crazy as some people say. He still has his faculties, and he knows exactly what he is doing. He was distancing himself from Project 2025 at the same time he was secretly blessing it. That means he knows that it is a blueprint to fascism, he knows the US citizens wouldn't like it, and therefore he is trying to say he knows nothing about it. If he was crazy, he'd be doing none of that. Instead, he's a 100% behind it... in secret. That he is blessing it in secret shows he hasn't lost his mind yet. He knows this is wrong, he's not insane.

No longer can anyone claim that Project 2025 exists in a vacuum; only a fool or a liar would say such things at this point. The author of Project 2025 clearly states that the whole book of policies and plans was written explicitly for Donald Trump and his second administration, and at this point, it is the solemn duty of every patriotic American to amplify their message and connect them to it, so everyone is aware of their work.

The US deserves better than having policies, regulations, executive orders and memos pre-written in secret, lied about and distanced from, but all along lying in wait for the opportunity to spring them on an unsuspecting American population. If these policies are so great, now is the time to talk about them openly. We have 80 some days to go until we all vote to choose our next president, and one of those candidates needs to start talking about his policies out in the open, not bless them in secret. We all need to know what his plans are, and if he won't talk about them openly, it is our patriotic duty to do it ourselves.

Copy this video to your social media, educate all your friends on Project 2025, and what it would mean for the US if what is secret... became real.

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So...we have one candidate for fascism and one for Marxist/socialism. What could possibly go wrong?

a reply to: nugget1

Seriously, Trump has said many times he does not support project 2025.

Leave the echo chamber please.

originally posted by: theatreboy
a reply to: nugget1

Seriously, Trump has said many times he does not support project 2025.

Leave the echo chamber please.

I take it you've never read any of my posts.....

a reply to: Mahogani

I think Vought played it smart and said they didn’t get anything they couldn’t google.

I read the article, and I didn’t see any new connections that weren’t already public.

I don’t think Trump is all in on Project 2025. But I also don’t doubt behind the scenes political flirtation to garner support and donations. The left does that with unsavory groups and causes too.

We’re all reading between the lines though.

Like the “very fine people” hoax, it seems this hoax isn’t ever going to end either.
Trump isn’t a conservative beyond wanting to conserve the Constitution.
He never has been.

Here are some facts to keep in mind….

Trump had 4 years in office to visit upon the country all the evils you seem to fear -- and none of them happened.

There is no conceivable evil that would come from a Trump return to the White House that is in the same galaxy of the evils that would flow from the Progressive/Marxist wing of the Democrat party getting its hands on the levers of power.

a reply to: Mahogani

Project 2025 is QAnon for leftists.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

They’re just rehashing their propaganda that hardly anybody read and didn’t care about back on August 4th…
“A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term”
apnews.com...

They are desperate for anything since Kamala isn’t talking yet.
Is it a month without her doing an interview or answering questions already?
Old fake news.

originally posted by: theatreboy
a reply to: nugget1

Seriously, Trump has said many times he does not support project 2025.

Leave the echo chamber please.

I will not leave your echo chamber, but thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for reading. Did you watch the video in full?

a reply to: Mahogani

So called "Christian nationalism", which is a fancy jargon engineered to imply a sense of theocratic fascism, is based in two simple principles. Liberty was invented by the divine, which is to say no man can revoke what no man has bestowed. A nation under God is a nation that celebrates its commitment to liberty and responsibility. Without that, there can be no nation because "life, liberty and happiness" are defined and approved by politicized think tanks at the behest of the same arbitrators who are actively eroding the border, the economy, public education, spiritual and sexual dignity, and really every aspect of the American identity.

Naturally, the true fascists want to reframe our American birthright by suggesting to be Christian is to be misanthropic and xenophobic. Project 2025 anticipated this and just reading a few pages of its prognostication has many liberals itching to set it on fire because it represents everything they hate about America. I wonder why that is.

PS. I'm not a Christian, that doesn't mean I have to be Marxist or condone Marxist influences in our administration.

This hysteria is right up there with the "Trump will end the human race" fever dreams the left was screaming about in 2017.

Let me post a 2017 quote from Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee:
"As more time passes, we come closer to the greatest risk of danger, one that could even mean the extinction of the human species. This is not hyperbole. This is the reality." Deliriums from the left

Trump has not endorsed 2025, or "given it his blessing", and he's not going to install the radical right-wingers in his cabinet. These lefties make Chicken Little look rational and level-headed.

a reply to: Mahogani

The US deserves better than having policies, regulations, executive orders and memos pre-written in secret, lied about and distanced from, but all along lying in wait for the opportunity to spring them on an unsuspecting American population.

The sick and depraved irony.......

a reply to: ColeYounger2

The ones here burning their own hair over project 2025 based on some hand maiden tale christo fascism fantasy or delusion will have no problem supporting queers for Palestine or Islamic fundamentalism.

originally posted by: theatreboy
a reply to: nugget1

Seriously, Trump has said many times he does not support project 2025.

Leave the echo chamber please.

After multiple investigations, impeachments, arrests, indictments and convictions....all making Trump more popular than ever across America (and the world), Democrats have lost their minds.

Self-destruction would be their best action now.

Actually not meant for you.

It was for Mahogani.

Apologies.

a reply to: nugget1

a reply to: TzarChasm

Very well said. This should be plastered everywhere so these rabid lefties could finally understand something for a change.

Even though it's been shown over and over not only has Trump disagreed with many of the talking points of Project 2025, but that there is no way to politically get any of those points legislated on because there are too many REPUBLICANS who wouldn't back any initiative from Project 2025, its political suicide. Thus this thread is determined to be

originally posted by: wAnchorofCarp
a reply to: ColeYounger2

The ones here burning their own hair over project 2025 based on some hand maiden tale christo fascism fantasy or delusion will have no problem supporting queers for Palestine or Islamic fundamentalism.

Amen. if Trump wins, I hope at least some of the lefties make good on their promises to leave the U.S.