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By Natalie Venegas
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Following Donald Trump's recent statement that he has "nothing" to do with the conservative Project 2025, his estranged niece, Mary Trump, wrote on Friday that the former president appears "quite worried" Americans will "find out the truth" about the proposed initiative.
Created by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a 900-page document of proposed policies for a future Republican administration. It aims to remove civil service employment protections for thousands of federal employees so they can be fired and replaced with Republican loyalists.
In addition to proposing sweeping right-wing changes to the federal government, including eliminating the Department of Education, reducing the scope of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, a number of former Trump administration officials are linked to Project 2025. A total of 31 contributors who served at various levels in and around Trump's administration have been linked to the project, sparking speculation of Trump's involvement.
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Trump has since tried to distance himself from Project 2025, which Democrats have warned is a blueprint for how authoritarian a second Trump term could be.
In a post to Truth Social earlier this month, Trump wrote: "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it. The Radical Left Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever policies are stated or said. It is pure disinformation on their part. By now, after all of these years, everyone knows where I stand on EVERYTHING!"
In response to Trump's statements, Mary Trump took to her Substack blog on Friday to allege that the former president was "lying" when he wrote that post, adding that he appears "quite worried" about others finding out the truth.
"Also, for those of you who still believe in logic, it's very difficult to disagree with something about which you know absolutely nothing. And for somebody who 'knows nothing,' Donald seems quite worried that we're going to find out the truth," she wrote.
She added: "The reason Donald has been trying to put distance between him and Donald Trump's Project 2025 is because, as stupid as he might think Americans are, he knows we would never stand for what he wants to do to us. So, he'll keep lying about Donald Trump's Project 2025 and his support for it, and we'll keep fighting to get the truth out there."
Newsweek has reached out to Trump's campaign via email for comment.
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Mary Trump's comments come after The Heritage Foundation is set to hold a daylong "policy fest" in Milwaukee on July 15, the first day of the Republican National Convention where Trump will be confirmed as the GOP's 2024 presidential nominee, sparking renewed speculation about Trump's involvement with the project. On July 17, The Heritage Foundation is listed as hosting a social event at Uncle Buck's, per the RNC's calendar.
However, Project 2025 has denied they are connected to Trump's White House campaign. A Project 2025 spokesperson previously told Newsweek that it "does not speak for any candidate or campaign."
"We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president. But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement," the group recently wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
In a statement last week, President Joe Biden accused Trump of "trying to hide his connections" to the "extreme" Project 2025 agenda.
"The only problem? It was written for him, by those closest to him. Project 2025 should scare every single American," the president said.
As the 2024 election draws closer, according to FiveThirtyEight's national aggregator poll, Trump is leading Biden by 1.9 points (42.3 percent to 40.3 percent) as of Saturday morning.
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