The head of Project 2025 celebrates Donald Trump's victory

One of the key figures behind Project 2025's political manifesto enthusiastically congratulated former President Donald Trump after his victory in the 2024 presidential election.

After Trump's victory in Wisconsin surpassed the 270-point threshold required for another term in the White House, world leaders and domestic allies have struggled to praise the soon-to-be 47 points^Th Commander in Chief.

“President Trump achieved a historic and hard-fought victory: surviving four bogus indictments, surviving two assassination attempts and surviving an unprecedented mid-race candidate switch to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms,” Kevin Roberts said in a statement statement released on Tuesday evening.

Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation and its sister organization Heritage Action, the former being the think tank behind the controversial policy document Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project.

Published in 2023, the 900-page document contains 30 essays written by various conservative political thinkers and former officials that together suggest ways in which the federal government could be reshaped to address the “moral and fundamental challenges facing America at this moment in history.” faces”. “

The document's recommendations on abortion, immigration and executive control of the federal bureaucracy were called a “roadmap for replacing the rule of law with right-wing ideals” by the ACLU, and attempts to link the project to Trump became a key wave of attacks for the Democrats throughout the election campaign.

Donald Trump has repeatedly denied any formal connection to Project 2025 after Kamala Harris alluded to it during her speech at the Democratic National Convention, telling his followers on Truth Social that he had “absolutely nothing to do with” the document.

Newsweek asked the Trump campaign for its response to Roberts' message and asked what role the Heritage Foundation will play in the incoming administration.

However, a CNN review of the document in July found that “at least 140 people” who worked in Trump's previous administration were involved in Project 2025. They included former White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn and former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller and Paul Dans, who served as chief of staff in the Office of Personnel Management during Trump's first term and co-edited the policy initiative.

In 2018, the Heritage Foundation claimed that Trump had adopted “nearly two-thirds” of the policy recommendations previously laid out Mandate for leadership Publication, the ninth edition of which was Project 2025, in his first year in office.

Photos received from The Washington Post in August, Trump showed up aboard a private jet with the think tank's Roberts as the pair traveled to a Heritage Foundation event in April 2022 post pointed out that this contradicts the former president's previous claim that he had “no idea who is in charge of Project 2025.”

“You will lay the groundwork and develop detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do,” Trump reportedly said in his keynote address at the conference.

The foreword to Roberts' upcoming book, Dawn's Early Light: Retake Washington to Save America, was written by Trump's vice president, JD Vance, in which the Ohio senator wrote that the Heritage Foundation was “the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump,” according to an early copy obtained by The Associated Press.

“We look forward to this historic term in which President Trump has the opportunity to make America great, healthy, safe and prosperous again,” Roberts said Tuesday.

“The entire conservative movement stands united behind him as he prepares to secure our wide-open border, restore the rule of law, put parents back in charge of their children's education, restore America to its proper place as a manufacturing leader “To provide businesses and establish families.” and children first, and to dismantle the deep state.”

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