‘Project 2025 Should Scare Every Single American’: Biden Pushes Back Against Right-wing Manifesto
President won't let Trump off-the-hook for the sweeping far-right blueprint
President Biden is directly taking on the political right’s expansive manifesto developed as a authoritarian blueprint for a second Donald Trump term.
Biden, in a statement released by his reelection campaign, also pushed back against Trump’s clumsy and dishonest effort to disavow that plan, known as Project 2025.
Organized by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in Washington DC, interest in Project 2025 has surged over the last week or so.
Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, ignited a political firestorm with public comments he made calling for a “second American revolution,” with a not-so-veiled threat of political violence if Americans oppose the plan.
Also, Project 2025 began trending on Google moments after actress Taraji P. Henson urged people — on-camera at the 2024 BET Awards — to look it up, educate themselves on it and vote.
At more than 900 pages, Project 2025 lays out a sweeping far-right vision for government under a Republican president, including further limits on national abortion rights, rollbacks of environmental protection and action on global climate change, curtailed civil rights and much more.
Trump — fearing the political backlash from the manifesto — tried to disavow it in a social media that was demonstrably untrue.
His clumsy social media post claimed simultaneously that he knows “nothing” about Project 2025 and that “some of the some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
Biden called Trump out for the falsehood that the former president was ignorant of Project 2025.
“We can always rely on Donald Trump for one thing: to lie to the American people in pursuit of power,” Biden said in the statement released by his campaign. “We saw that on the debate stage when he set a record. He lied about the economy, about his role in the January 6 insurrection, and about disrespecting our heroic servicemembers.
“Donald Trump is lying again now,” the Biden statement added. “He’s trying to hide his connections to his allies’ extreme Project 2025 agenda. The only problem? It was written for him, by those closest to him. Project 2025 should scare every single American. It would give Trump limitless power over our daily lives and let him use the presidency to enact ‘revenge’ on his enemies, ban abortion nationwide and punish women who have an abortion, and gut the checks and balances that make America the greatest democracy in the world. It’s extreme and dangerous.
“Trump’s conservative Supreme Court has already given him a blank check to do virtually whatever he wants without regard for the rule of law,” the statement said. “If he wins, there is no question Trump will use it to pass his Project 2025 agenda. Together, we must defeat him.”
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