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Democrats Continue to Spew Lies About the Contents of Project 2025


BY: MONROE HARLESS | JULY 11, 2024

Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/11/democrats-continue-to-spew-lies-about-the-contents-of-project-2025/

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Democrat officials have launched a disinformation campaign about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, misattributing policies nowhere to be found in the project and falsely linking them to former President Donald Trump.

The project is a policy roadmap for a future Republican administration created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and outlined in a nearly 1,000-page document highlighting long-held conservative priorities. The left’s fearmongering campaign comes amidst panic in the Democratic Party, which has fractured over Biden’s cognitive decline and abysmal election polling.

“[Project 2025] is a dangerous takeover by Trump and his allies to pass his extreme MAGA agenda,” Biden recently said on X, including a video that claims the project “would allow employers to stop paying overtime for millions” and “enact a national abortion ban.”

The claims are massive distortions of the project’s actual policies. The outline, in reality, suggests “calculat[ing] the overtime period over a long number of weeks” with the goal of giving workers greater flexibility in their schedule.

A national abortion ban is nowhere to be found in the policy outline, which insists conservatives should “recogn[ize] the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations.”

The project encourages “complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion” and notes that “alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support.”

The Biden campaign has doubled down on efforts to attribute the project to Trump, even creating a webpage that calls the policy plan “Trump’s Project 2025.” Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from the think tank’s policies. 

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

The website, nevertheless, insists that Trump plans on “reinstating and expanding [the] racist Muslim ban,” “arming teachers,” and “raising the retirement age.” It also claims Project 2025 will put “families’ access to  IVF treatments … in jeopardy” and “cut Social Security.” Not one of these policies is contained anywhere in Project 2025.

Other Democrats have participated in the fearmongering. 

“They’re going after IVF,” Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on MSNBC in February. “They also want to control … what they call recreational sex. … This is so clearly a patriarchal theocracy.”

Project 2025 makes no mention of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or “recreational sex.” Mentions of “God” and “Christian” are limited to religious freedom, tax exemptions, work as “service to God,” and “God-given individual rights to live freely,” contrary to AOC’s claims of theocracy.

Celebrities on the left have joined in the misinformation campaign as well. 

Hollywood actor Mark Hamill, a longtime Democrat fundraiser and Biden supporter, spoke out against Project 2025 in a recent post, writing, “With fear for our Democracy, I dissent.”

The actor included a graphic of Trump with a laundry list of goals supposedly outlined in the project, including ending no-fault divorce, banning African American studies, banning contraception, banning Muslim immigration, cutting social security, raising the retirement age, and court packing.

Project 2025 responded with an enumerated list of 30 “myths vs. facts,” clarifying Hamill’s more misleading claims.

“Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans. Individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government does,” the post noted, debunking the assertion that Project 2025 calls for higher taxes for working-class people. 

“Mandate for Leadership’s plan would not eliminate the FDA or the EPA, and NOAA’s functions would be transferred to other agencies, the private sector, and states and territories,” the post clarified about misleading claims on government agency policy. 

But regardless of the facts about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Democrats and their supporters will continue to lie about the policy plan’s substance and inaccurately link the plan to Trump in an attempt to derail his presidential campaign.

Monroe Harless is a summer intern at The Federalist. She is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in journalism and political science.

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Marco Rubio Dismantled CNN’s Dana Bash on Trump


By: Kevin Jackson | July 8, 2024

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Talk about giving a clinic in how to handle the media with nothing but the truth, Marco Rubio obliged.

In this interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Rubio literally makes Bash eat her Leftist-narrative crow in front of a live audience.

She begins the interview by asking Rubio if Trump would go after the people who have targeted him. All fake news media is asking this question in an attempt to prevent Trump from rightfully going after the co-conspirators who unlawfully prosecuted him. And while many Americans feel that Trump would be justified in vengeance against these traitors, many of whom blatantly committed treason in 2020 and beyond, Rubio doesn’t respond in that way.

Rubio calmly explained Trump real agenda based on his response during the debate. Trump’s vengeance will be success and restoring America to greatness. Rubio continued and hammered the Biden administration by saying that a second-term President Trump won’t have time for vengeance. Because he will be busy fixing Biden’s mess from the last 4 years.

And the thing that crushed Bash and all the other lies told by Leftists is Trump’s record.

Democrats and other Leftists talk of Trump as a dictator. They say things like, “When Trump gets into office he will [insert stupid Leftist talking point here].” Why do Democrats seem to forget that Trump has already been in office. From 2016 to 2020 Trump had the opportunity to [insert stupid Leftist talking point here], and yet he did nothing. Rubio did an amazing job explaining to Bash that Trump didn’t go after any of the people who targeted him in 2016. Few would argue that Trump could have gone after Hillary Clinton and all her co-conspirators for the Russian collusion lies, but he didn’t. Instead, he spent his time rebuilding the American economy, and restoring America’s place in the world.

And what of the multiple members of the DOJ; specifically, the FBI who targeted Trump, which led to the coup of 2020. If anybody deserved to be prosecuted for treason, it’s those FBI members who helped depose Trump.

Bash recognized that she got demolished by Rubio on vengeance. So, she shifted her attention to Project 25.

Keep in mind that Project 25 has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It’s a project of the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think-tank located in DC. And while the initiative has some great ideas, it has not been endorsed by President Trump or his team.

Bash attempted to tie Trump to Project 25 and positioned the project as some alt-right radical proposal. So, when she asked Rubio about the project, it was a clear setup. She wanted Rubio to condemn the Heritage Foundation Rubio and the project leader. Rubio didn’t take the bait, as he gave the best answer possible: “Is he running for president?”

Nice try at “guilt by association”. But what impressed me is that Rubio shifted back to Trump’s policies, and redefined Trump’s initiatives again like a seasoned pro. Even better, Rubio pivoted back to the Left-wing think-tanks who policies Biden has been implementing for 4 years. Policies that have given us a border invasion, out of control inflation, and so on. Again, a master stroke to pivot Bash’s strategy back onto her and the Democrats.

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What I like most about the new version of Rubio is he doesn’t need handholding when speaking on behalf of MAGA. Watch his interviews and you can see that he feels MAGA in his soul. As for Trump proteges, Rubio sits atop the list. He’s politically savvy, young, and seasoned. He’s what a newly minted Republican Party needs, as they jettison the old guard.

Rubio manhandled Dana Bash, proudly displaying toxic masculinity. And he used the truth as his weapon.

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I Read The ‘Project 2025’ Playbook, And I Couldn’t Find a Single White Christian Nationalist Policy


BY: DAVID HARSANYI | JULY 08, 2024

Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/08/i-read-the-project-2025-playbook-and-i-couldnt-find-a-single-white-christian-nationalist-policy/

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Project 2025, a suggested roadmap for a second Trump Administration pulled together by the Heritage Foundation, is a nearly 1,000-page document written by a bunch of think tankers and right-wing policy experts running the gamut of conservatism.

President Joe Biden says the document “should scare every single American.” Democrats, one strategist told the Washington Post, need to “instill fear in the American people.” Donald Trump and his surrogates are already distancing the candidate from the effort.

So, I decided to read it. Listen, it wasn’t easy. But the chances that Biden, or any other person fearmongering about it, understands what’s in it, is highly doubtful.

For starters, most of the Project 2025 “mandate” is just a compendium of long-held conservative wishes for government.

The Associated Press warns the effort champions a “dramatic expansion of presidential power.” Yet, nothing in Project 2025 is even on par with Biden’s unconstitutional loan “forgiveness” plan. The alleged presidential abuses the media lays out are well within the president’s power. They’re just policies Democrats happen to dislike.

Project 2025, we are warned, suggests the firing of as many as 50,000 federal workers — which is well within the purview of the president. It will never happen, unfortunately.

Project 2025 suggests eliminating the Department of Education and its “woke-dominated system of public schools.” Conservatives have been promising to get rid of the Department of Education since Ronald Reagan first ran for the presidency. It will never happen.

Project 2025 suggests prohibiting the FBI from “fighting misinformation and disinformation.” Great! The state shouldn’t be in the business of dictating speech. Not only do bureaucrats have no monopoly on truth; they are highly prone to abusing power. This would not have been controversial even a decade ago.

Moreover, curbing the DOJ’s efforts is limiting executive power.

Project 2025 also suggests deactivating FBI investigations that are “contrary to the national interest.” The Department of Justice — now engaged in lawfare against Democrats’ main political rivals, parents, and pro-life protesters among others — exists within the executive branch. It should always presumably act in the national interest.

Project 2025 also proposes ending the “war on fossil fuels.” This, too, has been a mainstream GOP position since Democrats began openly promising to dismantle our energy economy. If voters don’t like it, they can vote of the party that promises “carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.”

“Project 2025 is not a game, it’s white Christian nationalism,” the star of “The Avengers” and budding Christian theologian Mark Ruffalo warns. “It is the Sharia Law of the ‘Christian’ crazy people who aren’t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ’s egalitarian, inclusive, and kindly teachings.”

Project 2025, you may be surprised to learn, does not feature a single mention of “Jesus” or “Christ.” It does champion long-held social conservative positions on religious freedom, abortion, marriage, and so on.

The policy guide features eight mentions of “God” in the entire document, most of those noting our “God-given individual rights to live freely.” Though this might be offensive to Politico writers or “New Right” intellectuals who’ve abandoned “liberalism,” it is one of the foundational ideas of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

“Christian” is mentioned seven times in the Project 2025 mandate. One, a warning about the left’s threats to tax-exemptions on churches and religious schools. Another mention suggests doing more to protect minority “Middle Eastern Christians” in foreign policy. Another reference reminds us about the COVID-era authoritarians who shut down “churches on the holiest day of the Christian calendar.”

Faith is also touched on in a section about attacks on religious freedom that “compel a Christian website designer to imagine, create, and publish a custom website celebrating same-sex marriage but cannot compel an LGBT person to design a similar website celebrating opposite-sex marriage.” There is nothing extreme about that statement.

Now, obviously there are numerous other nods to socially conservative policy that comports largely with orthodox Christian positions. Not everyone in the right-center coalition might agree them–especially on abortion. Trump doesn’t even embrace them. So much for MAGA extremism. You’re free to agree or disagree with the suggestions, but there is nothing weird or unique or new about faith informing politics. Moreover, none of these policies undermine the rights of other citizens.

And though I strongly disagree with plenty of the economic and trade ideas found in Project 2025, that’s not what the left is taking issue with, of course. They’re feigning horror at decades-old social conservative positions and warning us about authoritarian policies that aren’t actually found anywhere in Project 2025.

David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books—the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi.

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