President Donald Trump's former campaign manager revealed the operation was oftentimes surprised at some of Project 2025's boldest ideas. The comments reveal inside knowledge at the initiative despite the campaign constantly trying to distance itself from the ultra-conservative movement.
Project 2025 is the 922-page blueprint for a second Trump administration prepared by conservative Heritage Foundation and published in April 2023. As soon as it was made public, then-candidate Trump tried to distance himself from it. "I know nothing about Project 2025," he wrote in a post on his Truth Social network last July. "I have no idea who is behind it."
