LOADING ERROR LOADINGYale history professor Timothy Snyder isn’t buying GOP nominee Donald Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Project 2025 handbook, following backlash to some of its proposals. The extreme policies contained within the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s document — which was crafted by dozens of Trump’s former aides — are widely believed to be the agenda that Trump will pursue in a potential second administration. Trump is “trusting that his people will believe him, no matter what he says,” he explained. Trump “doesn’t have another transition team besides the people who are involved in writing Project 2025 and he doesn’t have another transition plan asides what’s written down in Agenda 47 and Project 25,” he added. He can try to relabel it but … what it stands for is quite clear” with proposals to “wreck the federal government,” replace experts with Trump loyalists and gut the administrative state.

Source: Huffington Post August 05, 2024 12:24 UTC