Was Trump caught lying again about major issue? There are receipts

Project 2025 — the Republicans’ 900-page plan to burn down the federal government, impose Christian Nationalism policies on the nation, and expand Donald Trump’s presidential powers if he wins a second term — is a polling disaster.

The more voters learn about it, the more they reject it.

And that’s why Trump on Friday posted on social media: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Project 2025 would implement conservative and Christian nationalists policies regarding climate change, LGBTQ+ communities, abortion, foreign aid, education, health care, taxes and more. Few, if any, aspects of American society would escape.

Trump immediately was called on his lie — along with being mocked for saying he disagreed with an agenda he knew nothing about.

The Biden campaign posted a video of Trump shaking hands with Project 2025 mastermind, Kevin Roberts president of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, whom Trump says “is doing an unbelievable job.”

The campaign posted another video that shows “Trump’s press secretary [Karoline Leavitt] is literally starring in ads for Project 2025.”

The campaign also pointed out that Trump’s “top aide and former bag boy John McEntee, is ... behind Project 2025.”

More evidence: Trump’s Super PAC is running ads, encouraging voters to “learn about Trump’s Project 2025,” and the Trump campaign chose Project 2025 leader Russ Vought to co-lead the RNC’s Platform Committee.

Still more: Trump is mentioned more than 270 times in the Project 2025 founding document, “Mandate for Leadership.”

Roberts on Tuesday hinted at political violence by saying the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.” In an interview on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Roberts added that Republicans are “in the process of taking this country back.”

Democrats are “apoplectic right now” because the right is winning, Roberts told a guest host while Bannon serves a four-month prison term. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Olivia Troye, former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, pointed out that many involved in Project 2025 are part of Trump and the GOP’s inner circle: “So, yes, Donald Trump is doing his usual tap dance — Project 2025? Project what? Project who? Never knew her. They’re the coffee girl/boy. Don’t know what it is ... nope not me …” Yet several members of his cabinet and senior administration officials who served under his presidency are directly involved in it.”

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