{"id":1038053,"date":"2024-08-05T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1038053"},"modified":"2024-08-07T06:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T10:59:46","slug":"presidential-historian-warns-that-project-2025-will-likely-run-the-show-on-a-trump-transition-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/presidential-historian-warns-that-project-2025-will-likely-run-the-show-on-a-trump-transition-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Historian Warns that Project 2025 Will Likely Run the Show on a Trump Transition Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Op-ed by scholar David Marchick follows new <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd\"><em>reporting<\/em><\/a><em> revealing a Project 2025 architect&#8217;s secret 180 day transition playbook, and reports on Project 2025 building a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans\"><em>\u201cconservative LinkedIn\u201d<\/em><\/a><em> of candidates to staff a Trump-Vance administration<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response, <\/em><strong><em>DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs Trump continues to gaslight the public claiming he has \u2018no idea who is behind\u2019 Project 2025, here\u2019s the truth every American deserves to know: First, Project 2025 wrote Trump\u2019s agenda for a second term. Then, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/donald-trump-project-2025-1235053996\/\">put the architects of Project 2025 in charge<\/a> of the Republican party platform committee \u2013 which produced the most extreme platform in GOP history. Now, reports exposing their <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd\">secret 180 day transition playbook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans\">\u2018conservative LinkedIn\u2019<\/a> of potential administration staff, and the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-08-05\/a-trump-victory-would-mean-transition-chaos?sref=3OTf8B4q#:~:text=It%20is%20therefore%20hugely%20irresponsible%20that%20former%20President%20Donald%20Trump%20has%20not%20appointed%20a%20transition%20director%20or%20team%20to%20prepare%20for%20his%20presidency%20should%20he%20be%20elected%20again%2C%20nor%20has%20he%20publicly%20communicated%20his%20plans%20to%20do%20so.\">Trump has not organized any transition team <\/a>proves that Trump\u2019s deep dependence on Project 2025 extends to staffing and setting the transition processes to execute their dystopian agenda for a second Trump term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, David M. Marchick, a scholar who specializes on the history of presidential transitions, issued a dire warning in an op-ed he published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-08-05\/a-trump-victory-would-mean-transition-chaos?sref=3OTf8B4q\">Bloomberg<\/a>, writing:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cNot surprisingly, Trump\u2019s moves in and out of office were the most chaotic in modern history\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThis time around, the fact that Trump has not organized a transition planning team could make him largely dependent on two outside groups: the America First Transition Project and the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Project 2025.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhile Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, Heritage has said it continues to focus on personnel issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s Project 2025 allies are crafting a \u201c180-Day Transition Playbook\u201d and a \u2018conservative LinkedIn\u2019 to staff the transition to a second Trump term.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><strong>: A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Key Point:<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>A chief architect of Project 2025 \u2014 the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government \u2014 Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration.<\/em><\/strong><em> And he\u2019s been drafting a so-far secret \u2018180-Day Transition Playbook\u2019 to speed the plan\u2019s implementation to avoid a repeat of the chaotic start that dogged Trump\u2019s first term.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans\"><strong>Propublica<\/strong><\/a><strong>: The Man Behind Project 2025\u2019s Most Radical Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Key Point: <\/em><\/strong><em>\u201cAs Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared \u2014 to replace thousands of members of the \u2018deep state\u2019 with MAGA loyalists \u2014 remain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cSome four years later, here he was, hoping to build the next administration. Dans envisioned the personnel database that he wanted to create as a \u2018conservative LinkedIn.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/30\/politics\/project-2025-paul-dans\/index.html\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> <strong>Project 2025 director steps down amid backlash from Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Key Point:<\/em><\/strong><em> \u201c<\/em><em>A spokesperson for Heritage, though, said despite Dans\u2019 exit, work will continue on the current phase of Project 2025, which is a nationwide search to fill a Trump administration with loyal conservatives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-ed by scholar David Marchick follows new reporting revealing a Project 2025 architect&#8217;s secret 180 day transition playbook, and reports on Project 2025 building a \u201cconservative LinkedIn\u201d of candidates to staff a Trump-Vance administration In response, DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement: \u201cAs Trump continues to gaslight the public claiming he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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