Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.

Summary

Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They never came up with any other plan, so they’re just going with what they’ve got. They haven’t been able to govern for more than a decade. They’re so fractured and have done nothing more than shit talk and blame, so no nobody is willing to try to get republicans to form a group capable of planning anything other than who to point fingers at.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      They never came up with any other plan

      The guy said he had concepts of plans in a debate designed as a platform for candidates to let America know what their plans are.

      And then we elected him anyways.

      Americans are fucking stupid.

      Take politics and politicians out of the equation and you’re still left with stupid fucking Americans. And THAT is why we’re doomed in the long run.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the “entertainer”

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    This is exactly what they said they would not do… trump stated several times that he would not go forward with this project that he had never ever in a million years heard of… You people were played like a cheap russian fiddle.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    You know who else disavowed what he wrote publicly to pacify his critics? Hitler with Mein Kampf. He kept repeating he wrote Mein Kampf in 1925 but had changed his views since. Guess what: he hadn’t.

    And surprise-surprise, the Orange Utan hasn’t either. It’s almost like we didn’t see that one coming from a mile away…

    And don’t think for a second that I’m the only one to see the striking parallel.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Trump has never read Project 2025. Or Mein Kampf. Or The Art of the Deal. Or any book in his life.

      He might have listened to the audiobook version of Mein Kampf, but probably not in the original German like his dad would have.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Actually, his wife and his friends said they’ve only seen him actively read one book, which is a book of Hitler’s speeches.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          That’s just what he wanted them to think. Inside the book, he had hidden a single Bazooka Joe comic that took him 5 years to read. And then he didn’t get the joke so he had to take another 5 years to read it. And he still didn’t get the joke so… basically he’s going to put anyone with a Bazooka Joe comic in their possession in front of a firing squad when he gets in charge.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I have a friend who says things like “oh that project isn’t real its just a think tank”.

      Nobody writes a document that long and detailed just as a little thought experiment. It was obviously a manifesto and I don’t know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.

      • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        It had a 4!!! Percent approval rating. 4!!

        And yet… he won the popular vote.

        I’m an American in a poor red state. I really hope the FO portion of fafo hits us SUPER hard.

        It’ll suck for me… but man it’ll be great to be that smug asshole reminding folks who they voted for.

        In my county 23% voted Harris. So odds are good that dude in the lifted Ford is a trumpkin.

        Fucking idiots…

        • Atom@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Same, red county-district-state. I would hope the same but they won’t attribute it to their deal leader. His Tariffs and GOP policy will fuck them too, but fox and podcasts will tell them it’s the deep state Democrats keeping them down. They all were doing the “this is Biden’s America” posts in 2020. GOP can do no wrong in their eyes. Used to be child rape was a deal breaker but even that is A-OK now, as long as the Democrats lose.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Yet she was part of the administration that got you that huge infrastructure project and new factory incentives the donvict will take credit for

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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        9 months ago

        All the policy goals are the same as what’s been in the Republican platform for decades. The only thing Project 2025 adds is how to get there. Is Trump a useful idiot? Maybe, although it would be silly to operate under that assumption rather than believing he’s just as committed as the rest of them. Either way, the idea having seeped into the popular consciousness of the American voter that Project 2025 is something other than a serious plan for a Republican administration is an astonishing bit of doublethink. Orwell spins like a turbine in his grave.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          Actually getting the policys in place is the hardest part of policy making. Now they’ll be able to do that.

          We’re going to need to hook Orwell up to the grid. He’s going to produce a lot of spins in the next few years.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I don’t know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.

        Can you be truly against something if you cannot even be bothered to have the slightest idea what it is?

  • Apathy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When an individual tells you they are crazy, It’s best to trust them on that judgement

  • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That’s always been his plan. And it’ll happen because these Heritage Foundation ghouls will run the government off-camera while Trump and his reality TV cabinet distract us with fights and absurd sound bites in between his golf rounds.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve run into some trump voters who aren’t worried about project 2025 because “i’m going to vote against it in 2025” and it’s like… goddammit, why did the republicans get so good at propaganda so fast (hint: Russian money)