Donald Trump’s and his campaigners’ frustration with the Heritage Foundation has been obvious ever since the Democrats jumped on the 900-page manifesto and made it into another Trump-branded product. No matter how hard the Trump campaign tried they couldn’t get people to stop talking about Project 2025.
Trump has personally tried to distance himself from the project, calling it “appalling” and “extreme” at different times and claiming he didn’t know anything about it, even though his own running mate, JD Vance, has extensive ties to the organization and has even written the foreword to Heritage President Kevin Roberts’ upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light, Taking Back Washington to Save America.
As has been thoroughly documented, most of the people associated with Project 2025 are Trump administration alumni, such as his former Housing Secretary Ben Carson, trade adviser Peter Navarro, White House adviser Johnny McEntee and former Director of Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought.
In fact, one report showed that 31 of 38 authors and editors of the 900-page tome had been on Trump’s team at one time or continue to be. This is not surprising since Trump and his MAGA movement have devoured what was once the conservative movement of which The Heritage Foundation was a founding institution. Conservatives are MAGA now or they are no longer relevant.
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Certainly, the Harris campaign is not going to let him off the hook:
Project 2025 is on the ballot because Donald Trump is on the ballot. This is his agenda, written by his allies, for Donald Trump to inflict on our country. Hiding the 920-page blueprint from the American people doesn’t make it less real – in fact, it should make voters more concerned about what else Trump and his allies are hiding.
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Good! Don’t let him get away from his project.