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Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025's Presidential Administration Academy
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-project-2025-presidential-training-academy-trump-election(more videos at link)
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Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025s Presidential Administration Academy
by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
Aug. 10, 4:55 a.m. EDT
The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trumps efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos have previously worked for the former president.
ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administrations political appointees to be ready on day one.
Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future conservative presidential administration, has lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has tried to distance itself from the effort.
But Project 2025s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy remains on track. Video trainings like these are one of the four pillars of that plan, says Spencer Chretien, the associate director of Project 2025, in Political Appointees & The Federal Workforce.
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by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
Aug. 10, 4:55 a.m. EDT
The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trumps efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos have previously worked for the former president.
ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administrations political appointees to be ready on day one.
Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future conservative presidential administration, has lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has tried to distance itself from the effort.
But Project 2025s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy remains on track. Video trainings like these are one of the four pillars of that plan, says Spencer Chretien, the associate director of Project 2025, in Political Appointees & The Federal Workforce.
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Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025's Presidential Administration Academy (Original Post)
sl8
Aug 2024
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(73,013 posts)1. That's rather long! They've really gone all out on this
global1
(25,889 posts)2. They're Serious About This - That's Why They Went All Out......
You bet your boots that Tr**p knows all about this.
This scares me because it's like they have this whole election rigged and they know that they're going to win.
The pieces are in place to end our democracy.
They are all too cocky now - during this period before November.
I sure do hope Harris/Walz can overtake them with overwhelming number of votes.
We got to be ready for anything though. Though the momentum might be with Harris/Walz now - anything can change before November.
Bookmarking.
Thanks for posting!