Lara Trump on Project 2025: “There are some ideas in there that are very productive and will be great for this country”

Trump: “There are some ideas in there that are very productive and will be great for this country. There are some ideas in there that might be a little more extreme.”

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From the August 20, 2024, edition of The Blaze's Pat Gray Unleashed 

PAT GRAY (HOST): Democrats have also done a really good job with repositioning Project 25 as some sort of kookery and really they - I don't know if the RNC is okay with them repositioning that but most of the proposals, in fact, all the proposals I've seen are pretty reasonable, you know, protect the border, we're pro-life. I mean, these are things that just make sense for the conservative party. Is that something that Donald feels it's necessary to distance himself from?

LARA TRUMP: Well, I think you're right there are some ideas in there that are very productive and will be great for this country. There are some ideas in there that might be a little more extreme and the problem is Donald Trump hasn't had anything to do with Project 2025. This is a think tank.

Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation, extensively outlines potential approaches to governance for the next would-be Republican president, including replacing federal employees with extremists and Trump loyalists and attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion, contraception, and labor unions. Project 2025 describes extreme policies like dismantling the federal agency that tracks hurricanes, upending Medicare as we know it, enacting inflationary tariff policies, and dramatically raising taxes on everyday Americans.

Trump has deep ties to Project 2025, despite attempts by Trump and his allies to distance himself. Just days ago, an undercover video revealed Project 2025 architect Russ Vought highlighting Trump's ties to Project 2025 and downplaying the former president distancing himself, candidly explaining that Trump is just “running against the brand” of Project 2025 but that, “he’s very supportive of what we do.” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts has made similar remarks.