By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-14 05:57:19 | Updated at 2024-12-14 09:07:02
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Donald Trump Changes Tune on Project 2025—'Very Conservative and Very Good'
Newsweak ^ | Dec 13, 2024 | Martha McHardy
Posted on 12/13/2024 9:53:44 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Donald Trump has publicly praised Project 2025, calling parts of the policy agenda "very conservative and very good."
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from the initiative. He called parts of the 900-page guideline spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation "ridiculous and abysmal."
"I know nothing about Project 2025," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in July. "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."
On Thursday, Time magazine named Trump its 2024 Person of the Year and published an interview it conducted with the president-elect on November 25. Speaking to the magazine, Trump softened his tone on the policy document. Though he continued to distance himself from Project 2025, Trump praised some of its ideas.
"I don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things," he told Time. "I specifically didn't want to read it because it wasn't under my auspices, and I wanted to be able to say that, you know, the only way I can say I have nothing to do with it is if you don't read it. I don't want—I didn't want to read it. I read enough about it. They have some things that are very conservative and very good. They have other things that I don't like."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: heritagefoundation; project2025; trump2025
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Hit piece by Newsweak trying to make it like Trump is now endorsing project 2025, but as the article states there are parts he agrees and other areas will not. Which is common sense to us as the Heritage Foundation has done some great work.
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