Former Project 2025 director downplays Trump ties, but says he hopes he'd implement the plan

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Source: CNN Politics

Published 12:03 AM EDT, Tue September 10, 2024


CNN — Paul Dans, the former director of the group behind the conservative policy roadmap Project 2025, said on Monday he’s not worried about Vice President Kamala Harris invoking the proposal against Donald Trump in Tuesday’s debate and said he’d like to see the former president implement the plan if he’s returned to the White House.

Dans told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in his first TV interview since stepping down as director in late July that the former president “had nothing to do with” the Heritage Foundation-backed policy playbook forged by dozens of different organizations.

But Dans, the former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management under Trump, said he’s been to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort on “several” occasions and has met with Trump campaign leadership “from time to time.” He said he’d “shaken hands” with Trump, most recently at a Christian media convention in Tennessee where the former president spoke in February.

His comments come as Harris and her allies have sought to link Trump to Project 2025 to portray him as extreme. Democrats have repeatedly pointed to the set of conservative policies as Trump’s and the Republican Party’s roadmap if they return to the White House and control Congress, often highlighting proposals on reproductive health care, prescription drug costs and education policy. The vice president often references to the plan to suggest Trump wants to take the country “back to the past,” while insisting to supporters, “We are not going back.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/paul-dans-project-2025-trump-cnntv/index.html

[Cheezoholic]

1. Ha! Whatever... not news n/t

[mitch96]

2. I was channel surfing during an MSNBC commercial and I caught a bit of his Kuhscheie. He kept on dancing

around Collins accusations that tfg knew all about project 2025. He was acting like a child caught in a lie..
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[IbogaProject]

3. Snakes are going to slither around and try to hide

[slightlv]

4. I just had a thought..

Dangerous territory I know! But what if the neocons who initially started PNAC and carried it forward under different names every year realize that with changed demographics already here, climate change already here, and the overabundance of their people dying now, that this is really the last time they truly could persuade people their plans are good for people.

Could that be the reason they actually published it this time and said the quiet part out loud.