Former Trump administration hard-line anti-immigrant aide Stephen Miller has angrily denied any involvement with the controversial right-wing Project 2025 plan for America — after he appeared in a promotional spot posted by Project 2025 and its creator the Heritage Foundation.
Miller railed on Twitter at the Biden campaign, which revealed the spot, that its candidate has "pudding for brains" and that his part of the video was advice to students on skill-building and had nothing to do with Project 2025. "But keep hoaxing, losers," he added with the attitude for which he was infamous in the White House.
The spot promotes Project 2025's "Presidential Administration Academy" for training future leaders.
I know you’re upset because your candidate has soft pudding for brains, but that’s not a recruitment ad. A while back I made a video for students on how to build skills. I have never been involved with Project 2025, not one word. But keep hoaxing, losers. Hoaxes are all you have. https://t.co/FpVnIfYL0B
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) July 6, 2024
The 887-page Project 2025 is intended to be executed under the next conservative president. It was created by the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank with the participation of some 17 members of Trump's White House.
It calls for several massive changes, including moving to quickly execute prisoners on death row, launching a further crackdown on the LGBTQ community and women's reproductive rights and the "elimination of the administrative state," including shutting down the federal Department of Education, which Trump has pitched at his rallies.
As many as 50,000 federal workers would be classified as political appointees, fired, and replaced wit conservative loyalists under the plan.
Like Miller, Trump insisted Friday that he has never had any involvement with Project 2025, nor knows "nothing about" it. Critics pointed out that he apparently knows enough about it to also object to some aspects of it, which he didn't detail.
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.
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) July 5, 2024
Donald Trump…
"What is he talking about?" President Joe Biden asked on social media after Trump's claims. "Trump is lying about Project 2025. It's his people and his plan."
Trump's project will "destroy America," said Biden, who's currently facing pressure to drop out of the presidential race over his disastrous June 27 debate performance. "If you don't believe me, google it."
In a subsequent statement, Biden called Project 2025 "extreme and dangerous" and said it "should scare every single American."
Two of three people listed as the team behind the manifesto are former Trump administration officials, as are the authors of many chapters.
They include former trade adviser Peter Navarro, who's serving a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress in connection with the House select committee's investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
Trump's campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt also appears in the Project 2025 video with Miller, and has referred to the plan as "Trump's Project 2025."
So, Trump has no idea his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is moonlighting & did a promo for "Trump’s Project 2025" that is promoted by his Super PAC. Dozens of Heritage Foundation employees went to work for his administration. They brag out Trump doing their bidding. pic.twitter.com/D8rziw3rZx
— Fly Sistah 🪷 (@Fly_Sistah) July 5, 2024
Trump spoke out about Project 2025 shortly after controversial comments by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts which appeared to threaten bloodshed if the left doesn't fall in line with a "second American Revolution" presaged in Project 2025
This revolution will only "remain bloodless if the left allows it to be," Roberts warned in an interview.
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be." ~ Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation on July 2, 2024.
— Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) (@cjtackett) July 4, 2024
Happy 4th! pic.twitter.com/K4RcU85a0u
Roberts also noted in a speech at a Trump rally in Nashville that the former president gets "full credit" for creating Project 2025 and will enact it if he wins the election.
