Retiring Guy's Digest: Russell Vought spills the beans: Donald Trump is totally on board with Project 2025

Posing as relatives of a rich conservative donor, two employees of the Centre for Climate Reporting, a British journalism nonprofit, interviewed Russell Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025. Vought's name is being floated as the White House chief of staff in a 2nd Trump administration.

Screengrab and headline: CNN, 8/15/2024

Choice morsels (with emphases added):

Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”
Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.”
A Trump spokesperson declined to comment on the video, but his campaign has stressed that he sets his own agenda and that Project 2025 and other outside conservative groups don't speak for him.

“It’s a big, fat stack of papers that will be distributed during the transition period,” Meadowcroft said in the video – while noting that “you don’t actually, like, send them to their work emails,” in order to avoid disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

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