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.

  • The QuuuuuillEnglish
    135•6 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)

  • @Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
    17•6 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.

  • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    7•6 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
      7•6 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.

  • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    62•6 months ago

    And why should anyone be surprised?

    1. Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning

    2. Republicans deny shitty thing is being planned, that was just (insert republican official here) brought up, claim it’s just the official on their own.

    3. Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.

  • muculent
    11•6 months ago

    Lying liar lies again. We’re all horribly shocked.

    • @emmy67@lemmy.world
      1•6 months ago

      Honestly, a lot of centrist are. They also don’t expect any of it to actually be implemented. Cue those leopards

  • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    48•6 months ago

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

  • NeoToasty
    48•6 months ago

    America is just experiencing a case of all-time stupid. There’s no excuse that I can find that says Americans didn’t know about Project 2025.

    If we’re in a ‘golden age’ of anything, it’s the golden age of ignorance and stupidity for America. Where’s my Brawndo?

    • @Grass@sh.itjust.works
      15•6 months ago

      When I was a kid it was a common belief that americans were just way more stupid than the rest of the world. Turns out it was worse, but that we were also really stupid for copying a lot of their dumb shit.

    • @Mirshe@lemmy.world
      9•6 months ago

      Fox and Friends didn’t report on it.

      When Trump and his team were effectively forced to respond by a deluge of other outlets covering it, Trump literally just got in an interview and said “I never read it”. He didn’t say he didn’t know about it, he didn’t say he didn’t agree with it, just “I never read it, I don’t know what it’s about” - which I believe because the guy barely reads anything according to all the sources I can find.

      Remember that really ever since 2000, a LARGE amount of voters have checked out entirely. They get their politics third-hand from people who watched Fox or read an article and many don’t even do that, just going into a polling station and checking whoever’s name they’ve heard more in the last month or two. They’re not even low-information, they’re zero-information, and some, like my mother, are even negative-information, digesting objectively untrue facts and regurgitating them onto their personal political canvas (mom got deep into the Qanon panic because “parts of it felt true”).

    • @1ns1p1d@lemm.eeEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      The America of Idiocracy was waaaay better than what we’re going to get. I remember joking about how we were heading that way. Little did I know how quickly it would be so much worse.

      Im in my 50’s. I feel so bad for my parents. So many good things have happened in their lifetimes, only for their twilight years to turn into non-stop devastating disappointment and the relentless reversal of so much progress.