From The Guardian Liveblog:
I was reading the live blog and came across this:
LaCivita, who has been adding discipline to Trump’s election campaign, also sought to distance the former president from Project 2025, a radical manifesto drawn up by the Heritage Foundation thinktank that includes several former Trump administration officials.
“These people do not speak for him,” he said.
“They do not speak for the campaign. The issues that are going to win us this campaign are not the issues they want to talk about.”
He insisted that it is “complete and utter bullshit” for any reporter to suggest these individuals or policies will be appointed or adopted in a second Trump administration. “They’re a pain in the ass,” he said of Project 2025.
Read down some more and came across this:
Donald Trump’s running mate and Ohio senator JD Vance’s account for the money transferring app Venmo reveals an extensive network of connections including the architects of the conservative project Project 2025, according to a report.
An analysis by WIRED shows among the people who appear on Vance’s Venmo “friends” list are Amalia Halikias, government relations director at the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York as well as many lawyers for the Department of Justice, the famously anti-Trump former Arizona senator Jeff Flake, and the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The WIRED report says:
“Despite his anti-elite stance, Vance’s connections reveal a more complex relationship with establishment figures. At the same time, as the former president distances himself from Project 2025—a right-wing policy roadmap aiming to purge the federal government and reshape the executive branch and turn the US into what critics characterize as a Christian nationalist autocratic state—Vance’s Venmo network reveals his ties not just to Halikias but to others associated with a maximalist interpretation of MAGA. Gladden Pappin, for instance—president of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and a figure with close ties to the intellectual wing of the far right—shows up as one of Vance’s friends.”
Follow the money, or in this case, Follow The Venmo!
So when trump tries to say he doesn’t know what project 2025 is, ask him why his VP has them in his Venmo!