The plans have become so controversial that Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from the project, after months of Democrats sounding the alarm and Kamala Harris and her campaign have stepped up their warnings in recent days.

Perhaps he realized that he had become a political liability and so he claimed to know nothing about Project 2025 or the people behind it – but how credible is that really?

Trump and Kevin Roberts, who is president of the Heritage Foundation — the think tank that produced the 900-page plan — know each other well.

Here they are on a private jet together in April 2022.

Trump spoke at Heritage events – read this endorsement from the same month:

“With Kevin and the staff – and I’ve met a lot of them now, I’ve taken pictures of the most beautiful and beautiful people I’ve ever seen… this is a great group and they’re going to set the stage for exactly what what our movement is doing and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America — and that’s coming.”

However, at a rally in Michigan this summer, he said the following:

“Like some on the right, the hard right, they came up with this Project 25 and they don’t even know, I mean some of them know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative — they’re kind of the opposite of the radical left.”

So there you have it, two completely contradictory statements by the same man about the same group.

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That’s there, I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it on purpose, I’m not going to read it,” he said during the opening presidential debate this month. .

It seems clear, however, that many of Project 2025’s policies overlap with Trump’s official policy proposals, called Agenda 47.

In a conversation with tech billionaire Elon Musk on X, Trump said he would dismantle the Department of Education if he wins the White House in November.

“And what I’m going to do, one of the first acts — and I need an Elon Musk here, I need someone who has a lot of power and courage and intelligence — I want to close the Department of Education, move. education back to the states”.

This policy, for one, is included in Project 2025.

Regarding education, the handbook says that “federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.”

The president of the Heritage Foundation praised what he sees as a dovetail of Project 2025 and Trump’s Agenda 47, saying the overlap is extraordinary.

When asked for his reaction to Trump’s dismissal of Project 2025, he said:

“Well, I think that’s the sign of a great leader who understands that he’s in a great political news cycle … so there’s no pain on the part of any of us at Project 2025 about the statement because we understand that Trump he is the standard bearer and makes a political policy. tactical decision there”.

At least 140 people connected to Project 2025 served in some form in the last Trump administration.

Reporters for two investigative organizations called Documented and ProPublica obtained 14 hours of private Project 2025 training videos.

They found that 29 of the 36 speakers in the videos worked for Trump in some capacity.

The catch is that this is an overwhelmingly popular agenda among conservatives.

Roberts previously said that “never before has the conservative movement been so unified around a governing agenda.”

Among Trump’s base, many of the policies seem quite popular, but beyond here, not so much.

The question, currently unanswered, is whether Project 2025 really forms a blueprint for a second Trump term.

If he wins and succeeds, then America will have to prepare for fundamental political and societal changes.

Learn more about what Project 2025 is really about in the video below…