Project 2025's director resigns.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Trump and Project 2025. On Tuesday, The Heritage Foundation’s Paul Dans announced he was stepping down from his position as director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025. Dans’s exit comes after weeks of Democratic criticism of the project on the campaign trail and repeated disavowals from former President Donald Trump, who has insisted Project 2025 is not a blueprint for his second term. The Daily Beast reported that the Trump campaign was directly involved in orchestrating Dans’s ouster as part of an effort to shut the project down entirely.
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| 1:32.1 | John Law. Isaac is traveling, so I'm filling in, and today we are going to be talking about |
| 1:37.0 | the downfall of Project 2025, including the resignation of Director Paul Dance, who we actually |
| 1:43.2 | interviewed for our piece on Project 2025, which came out as a Friday edition just a couple weeks ago. |
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