There’s been plenty of chatter in recent weeks – some positive, some tinged with terror – about Project 2025, a plan for Donald Trump’s presidency developed by a group at a conservative think tank.
Controversial comments made in early July by a prominent right-wing leader tied to the project elevated its profile, and the Democratic National Committee has tried to use the project to its advantage, putting up billboards near a Trump rally in Florida, one of which called the document “Donald Trump’s blueprint for revenge and retribution.”
The questionable comments were made by Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative D.C.-based think tank The Heritage Foundation, which developed Project 2025. In one episode of The War Room podcast, he threatened a second American Revolution and said like-minded supporters are already in the “process of taking this country back.”
“We are in the process of a second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be," he said.
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For his part, Trump has made an effort to distance himself from the project, saying he doesn’t know anything about it and he disagrees with some of the things it stands for. On July 30, possibly in response to criticism from Trump, the project’s director, Paul Dans, stepped down.
Here’s a look at the plan and the controversy surrounding it:
Project 2025 is a nearly 900-page “presidential transition” plan consisting of “four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a........