Column | New hidden camera video reinforces Trump's Project 2025 problem

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : "Vought told the activists that he'd been given an assignment by Trump since the former president left office, and that Trump had "been at our organization, he's raised money for our organization, he's blessed it."
74% : End of carouselVought is the founder of the Center for Renewing America ("Our mission is to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God") and has dedicated his time since President Joe Biden's inauguration to planning for Trump to return to the White House.
62% : That's often how it worked when Trump was president.
57% : "If Trump wins, Heritage and Vought can drop their 900-page Project 2025 book in his lap.
56% : He was nominated by Trump in April 2017, having served as vice president of the Heritage Foundation's political committee.
52% : So here's Project 2025 and here's Vought and here's Roberts, with lots of plans for what Trump might do should he win in November.
45% : It was a very early Trump administration hire; Trump, finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly elected chief executive, scrambled to fill all of the positions suddenly under his command.
44% : And that's why Trump can't escape Vought and the Heritage Foundation.
42% : Vought can hand over all those executive orders, ready for Trump to put pen to paper.
40% : Trump could distance himself from all of this.
37% : The Heritage folks also know that Project 2025 isn't doing Trump any good.
36% : That Project 2025 is an albatross for Trump is demonstrated clearly by the former president's effort to distance himself from it.
32% : And when Trump retired to Florida in (fleeting) disgrace, Vought stayed in Washington, planning ahead.
30% : "This, in a nutshell, is why Project 2025 lingers behind Trump like an unwelcome shadow.
20% : Put simply, Vought and Project 2025 have the space to recommend policy proposals in part because Trump is disinterested in the subject.
10% : Trump's dismissals of Project 2025 as not reflective of his priorities are viewed by Project 2025's authors as insincere, but they're also obviously hollow because Trump would simply elevate many of them to government positions where they could implement their agenda without Trump's needing to weigh in.

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