Democrats have hit back at the former president Donald Trump He said there are parts of Project 2025 that “everyone will like.”
Project 2025 was created As a handbook for the forthcoming by the Conservative Heritage Foundation Republicans The administration’s nearly 1,000-page handbook proposes a sweeping overhaul of the federal government and plans to fire thousands of government employees to replace them with Republican loyalists.
Vice President Kamala HarrisThe Democratic nominee and his allies have Trump tried to pin down Project 2025’s most comprehensive proposals. Trump has denied that Project 2025 is related to his campaign, even though several of his longtime allies and former Trump administration officials helped draft the handbook.
When asked about Project 2025 on Lex Friedman’s podcast, Trump again said that he Knows “nothing” about it And he didn’t “purposely” read it, but added, moments later, that it contained some propositions that “everyone would like.”
“I don’t know anything about that,” Trump told Friedman. “And they know it too. Democrats Know that. And I purposely didn’t read it, because I want to tell you, I don’t know what it is. It’s easier than saying I read it and all that stuff. No, I purposely didn’t read it and I heard about it.”
Trump went on to say that he had “heard about things out there that I don’t like, and there are some things that everybody will like, but there are things that I don’t like at all.” He did not specify which proposals he was talking about.
He added: “I think it’s unfortunate that they took it out, but it doesn’t make sense, because it has nothing to do with me.”
The Trump campaign has been contacted for comment by email.
This Democratic National CommitteeAlex Floyd, director of rapid response, issued a statement saying Trump knows Project 2025 is “dangerous” and “unpleasant,” pointing to the poll.How the opposition has increased significantly recently For Project 2025.
“Donald Trump’s Project 2025 platform grows more unpopular by the day—but Trump doesn’t want to name a single proposal from his extreme Project 2025 agenda because he knows it’s a dangerous and out-of-touch MAGA blueprint for taking America backwards, Floyd said.
“Trump and the Project 2025 poster boy JD Vance They continue to be haunted by their own words and their own agenda, and Americans are ready to shred this 900+ page playbook at the ballot box in November by electing Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.”
The Trump and Harris campaigns have been reached for comment by email.
Harris’ campaign earlier appeared to try to highlight the contradictions in Trump’s comments by sharing a clip on X. TwitterAnd he noted that “I don’t know what it’s all about” and “there are some things that everybody will like.”
Other social media users agreed with one person writing: “Trump makes no sense. He says that he has no idea what Project 2025 is and then says that there are some things that everyone will like. He can no longer cover his lies.
other wrote: “Most of Trump’s advisers are the authors of Project 2025. This is his idea. He likes it. I can’t believe we are even considering him for President.
But an account that said it was intended to hold Harris’ campaign “accountable for misinformation on X” responded that it was a “complete misquote.”
“He literally says there are things in it that he doesn’t like,” the account wrote. “Probably one of the things he likes is his policy of lowering gas prices.”
Project 2025 has repeatedly stated that it “does not speak for any candidate or campaign.
“We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating for policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president,” said a Project 2025 spokesperson. A statement for Newsweek.
“But it’s ultimately up to that president, which we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.”
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