As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those
behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government
continue to brag in private about their close ties to the Republican
presidential nominee and how they intend to push a radical right-wing
agenda in a second Trump administration. In July, Project 2025 co-author
Russell Vought met with two people he believed to be relatives of a
wealthy conservative donor interested in funding the effort. In fact, he
was meeting with two reporters with the U.K.-based Centre for Climate
Reporting as part of an undercover sting captured on video. Over the
course of two hours, Vought described Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025
as mere theater and laid out plans for mass deportations, restricting
abortion, gutting independent government bureaucracies, using the
military against racial justice protesters and more. The secret plans
are “designed to ensure that this kind of radical agenda that the
conservative movement has in the U.S. can be implemented from day one,”
says Lawrence Carter, founder and director of the Centre for Climate
Reporting and one of the reporters who spoke with Vought. “They want to
make sure that the mistakes from the first Trump administration, as they
see them, where not much got done, are avoided this time around”.

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