Hi there's

everyone it's four o'clock in the east where there's smoke

there's usually fire in the repeated denials of any connection between the

radical manifesto written by the Heritage Foundation

to send America back to the 1800s and team Trump are generating a whole lot of smoke

after the fire. Brand new reporting reveals that the very same people behind that radical manifesto

Project 2025 are also behind

Trump's Republican Party and their official party platform.

ABC News reports this, quote,

in May the Trump campaign and the RNC

announced their platform committee leadership team,

the senior officials tasked with drafting the Republican platform

and they named Russ Vote as the Platform Committee's policy director

and Ed Martin as deputy policy director both have ties to Project 2025.

And as we reported on this program yesterday,

Vote was a former Trump administration staffer,

which brings us to the wider point.

If you want to look at what Trump and his allies plan to do in a second Trump term,

look at what they sought to do in the first. A key plank of Project 2025 is a total transformation of the way the Justice Department has functions since the very beginning.

It calls for the undoing of the central tenant of the Department of Justice, its independence from politics.

Project 2025 calls to, quote,

ensure the assignment of sufficient political appointees

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