Trump Has "Blessed" Secret Behind the Scenes Project 2025 Work, Co-Author Says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Trump has "blessed" the organization working behind the scenes on hundreds of executive orders, should he win again.
74% : ""The relationship" with Trump "is great," he assured the journalists later on.Vought also said that Trump would be able to easily utilize his new powers and the reformation of the government in his image, even going so far as to suggest that he could use military force on Americans rising up against his doing so.
62% : He also states that, far from distancing himself from the project, Trump is "very supportive of what we do," and that the former president has "blessed" Vought's own organization, the far right Center for Renewing America, which is continuing Project 2025's work behind closed doors.
62% : That's pretty close to Christian nationalism because I also believe in nationalism.
62% : "In response to Vought's statements and views that were uncovered in the video, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Rapid Response director Alex Floyd said that it was further proof that Trump was still supportive of Project 2025."Behind closed doors, chief Project 2025 architect Russ Vought confirmed Donald Trump has 'blessed' the work of Project 2025 architects as they work on the 'second phase' of their dangerous MAGA blueprint," Floyd said in a press release shared with Truthout.
57% : Trump would have the power to "maintain law and order with the military" throughout the U.S., Vought said, adding that it would be "important for him to remember and for his lawyers to affirm.
52% : Vought also explained to the journalists that his organization was drafting hundreds of executive orders and other plans of action for Trump to be ready for him in the White House right away, should he win the election and be sworn in as president on January 20.
51% : Trump himself has notable connections to the document -- at least 140 individuals who helped craft Project 2025 have worked for him in the past, and in 2022, he appeared at a Heritage Foundation event where he lauded the group's coordination of the formation of the project, stating that it was "lay[ing] the groundwork" for the future of conservatism in the U.S.Amid negative news reports and polling showing the public's dissatisfaction with the document, however, Trump and his campaign have tried to distance themselves from it, claiming that they are unaffiliated with it and disavowing support for its ideas - despite the fact that Trump's own Agenda 47 borrows many of its key points from Project 2025.
49% : Among its many "wish list" items, it calls for the rescinding of protections for LGBTQ people, the further deterioration of reproductive rights, the privatization of Medicare, the abolishment of the Department of Education and the removal of the federal civil service program in order to require employees to pledge their loyalty to the president rather than to the public institutions they serve.
47% : "Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what's necessary to take control" of government agencies when Trump takes office, Vought told the reporters.
38% : Vought also called for moving the country away from the idea of "multiculturalism," stating that it would be necessary to do so in order to implement the largest deportation policy in the country's history against immigrants currently living in the U.S.Vought also expressed no worry about Trump trying to distance himself from Project 2025 or its ideals.

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