Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out "Radical Agenda" for Next Trump Term in Undercover Video
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Published 2024-08-16
As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government continue to brag in private about their close ties to the Republican presidential nominee and how they intend to push a radical right-wing agenda in a second Trump administration. In July, Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought met with two people he believed to be relatives of a wealthy conservative donor interested in funding the effort. In fact, he was meeting with two reporters with the U.K.-based Centre for Climate Reporting as part of an undercover sting captured on video. Over the course of two hours, Vought described Trump's disavowal of Project 2025 as mere theater and laid out plans for mass deportations, restricting abortion, gutting independent government bureaucracies, using the military against racial justice protesters and more. The secret plans are "designed to ensure that this kind of radical agenda that the conservative movement has in the U.S. can be implemented from day one," says Lawrence Carter, founder and director of the Centre for Climate Reporting and one of the reporters who spoke with Vought. "They want to make sure that the mistakes from the first Trump administration, as they see them, where not much got done, are avoided this time around."
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All Comments (21)
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Remember, boys and girls, that "Freedom of Religion" also means freedom FROM religion
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These people are not going away. If they aren't successful this time, they will wait for their next opportunity. We must remain vigilant.
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Wouldn't this be considered high treason?
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“Brilliant , brilliant thank you for the education you can show yourself out” we need to vote Dump out. Great report
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We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are able to choose to be Christian there is a difference.
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A really big thank you to the entire staff of Democracy Now!
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Media needs to release this and find out what the second phase is . Someone needs to get the truth .
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Describes an organization he built as a "Death Star" and doesn't view himself as the Empire
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If you actually believed what you are doing is legal and morally correct, why would you take so many steps to keep your actions secret and as difficult as possible to prevent public scrutiny from ever affecting what you are planning? This is literally what the bible was trying to warn people about.
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This is one of the scariest videos I have ever seen! People have find out.This has to be STOPPED!
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I love how the interviewer says: “So they haven’t been spooked by you—as a person—yet;” meanwhile every third sentence out of this guy would spook any normal person.
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IS ALL OF THIS NOT TREASON? SINCE WHEN IS IT OK TO OVER TURN THE GOVERNMENT AND CALL FOR MARTIAL LAW?!
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Where is the DOJ, FBI, CIA. These people had no problem back in the 60's and 70's when they went after the Black Panthers when I was growing up. When its a group of THESE people they are left alone to do their evil nonstop.
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If your policies must be kept Secret Then they're Not the Citizens policies.
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I've read about half the Book. I thought it was very radical even for Christian Nationalists. So glad they did this VOD.
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Project 2025 is NOT new. I read the whole thing some time ago, well before most folks had heard about it. Their “mandate” that is found on both the Project 2025 & Heritage Foundation sites is the NINTH edition, published in April of 2023. Their 1981 “Mandate for Leadership” (a paperback) was on the Washington Post’s best seller list that year. This edition added all sorts of stuff, such as how they want the DOJ & FBI to basically be handcuffed from performing their duties, turning the Department of Homeland Security into a vigilante-like, xenophobic, bigoted arm of the government, and virtually destroying the Department of Education (so they can get the Christo-Fascist “religion” into public schools) and cut off all student loan forgiveness. This has been in the works for decades…
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Vought and his gang can buy themselves an island and go live that way, if they choose. It is not up to him to force his reprehensible notions upon our People, government and governance, not in America, not American.
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It's very concerning that the part they're keeping secret is inaccessible by FOIA requests when the part they published openly is already so horrifying.
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The Project 2025 propagandists are here in full force.
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You guys remember when Trump literally said he doesn’t know about this and called it radical cause I do
