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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 3, 2025, 05:00 PM Friday

Michael Cohen - Trump No Longer Denies Project 2025 [View all]

Yesterday, Donald Trump proved beyond any doubt that his months of denials about Project 2025 were nothing more than another one of his signature lies. On Truth Social, in the middle of a government shutdown he helped engineer, Trump boasted about meeting with Russ Vought — “he of Project 2025 fame,” as Trump himself put it. He said the meeting was to determine which “Democrat Agencies” (his words) should be cut, and whether those cuts should be temporary or permanent. Then he added a taunt: “I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”

There it is. Out in the open. The man who swore during debates and campaign rallies that he had “nothing to do with Project 2025,” that he hadn’t read it and didn’t want to read it, that it was the work of “the severe right,” just proudly tied himself to it. And not in passing, but directly, gleefully, as if he couldn’t wait to brag about it.

Here’s the kicker: not only did Trump know the writers of Project 2025, he hired one of the architects. Russ Vought, who literally authored sections of the 900-page plan, is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget — one of the most powerful agencies in the federal government. The man who helped design the playbook is now sitting in the very seat from which it’s being executed. Trump didn’t just “know” Project 2025. He institutionalized it by putting its chief architect in charge of the nation’s budget.

Trump’s defenders will wave this away as Trump being Trump. They’ll say it’s just rhetoric, or that presidents always pull ideas from think tanks. Don’t buy it. This isn’t a slip of the tongue or a careless exaggeration. This is the mask slipping. Yesterday’s post was confirmation that Project 2025 isn’t some fringe document floating around Washington. It’s the operating manual of his presidency.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-no-longer-denies-project-2025

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