Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Gov’t
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Published 2024-08-12
As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tries to downplay his connection to the far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025, ProPublica and Documented have just published dozens of training videos by the group that show how the conservative movement is gearing up for the next Republican administration. It’s an effort led by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank and other groups to remake the federal government, including by replacing civil servants with thousands of partisan political appointees who would help carry out the extreme policies envisioned by Project 2025. Many of the people who crafted the policy blueprint are former top Trump officials. The training videos include discussions about undoing climate policy, combatting diversity efforts, denying freedom of information requests and more.
“The first time that Trump … got elected, his operation was very unprepared. They did not have a bench of people ready. There was chaos, there was confusion, and that set back that administration for perhaps months, maybe even a year or two,” says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll. “If he is elected again, that will not be the case.”
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All Comments (21)
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The Nazi party did this sort of ‘training’ with soldiers stationed at concentration camps.
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"Handmaid's Tale" coming to Reality of Trump becomes President in 2025!! 😩😥🙁😬🤔😠
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I think the truly concerning part about these videos and Project 2025 is just how confident these people are that Trump will win again in 2024.
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We do not want to be put in concentration camps, or forced to move out of the country My parents were born in this country I was born in this country
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They are not playing around! Wish media focused more on this, rather than constant reactionary outrage.
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Margaret Atwood shpuld sue them for plagiarism. The entire plan is straight out of The Handmaids Tale.
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Project 2025 is strange, scary, and weird!
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My Trump supporting neighbor says he doesn't believe in climate change or evolution. How can you have a serious conversation with these people?
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In my mind…Trying to put all Americans in a cult. Do you think we the people are stupid?
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aaand... theyre all white
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Can you say, “brainwashing”?!?!?
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“When you hear ‘climate change’ you just think of ‘population control’, right?” Uh. No? I think of the earth on fucking fire?
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These people are insane. Hope kamala gets her act together, and that includes having an arms ambargo to Israel, so people vote for them.
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How is this not part of the corporate media's Trump outrage machine? He's bad.
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These people are going to be the last nail in our coffin
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I like that in the first clip that woman pretends to be outraged the government doesn't list Russia as a threat to America, well Donald Trump openly says he doesn't think Russia is a threat but for some reason she didn't mention that hypocrisy...
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Stop using the redacted name... It ISN'T "The Heritage Foundation". It IS "The Fascist Heritage Foundation".
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The insurrectionists on J6 and these guys just video record their idiocy 😊
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Thank you Democracy Now
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Vote Blue to stop project 2025! Harris/Walz
