Rebroadcast: Trump’s 2025 authoritarian playbook and what it means for democracy
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Donald Trump has openly admired authoritarians around the world. Now he’s pledging to rule like one. An examination of the promises, powers and plans of a second Trump presidency.
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| 0:11.0 | This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. Today we're digging back into our |
| 0:16.9 | archives because all of a sudden over the past few days it seems like everybody's |
| 0:22.2 | talking about Project 2025. |
| 0:25.0 | We begin tonight with Project 2025. |
| 0:28.0 | Something that's known as Project 2025. |
| 0:32.0 | Project 2025 calling it Trump's Project 2025. Project 2025 calling it Trump's Project 2025. |
| 0:36.0 | Project 2025. |
| 0:37.0 | Project 2025 lays out a right-wing wish list of policy changes that it once during a second Trump terms. |
| 0:44.0 | Now when political media jumps in unison like that you have to wonder why. |
| 0:50.0 | Either someone's published a bombshell said, hey, look at this. |
| 0:55.0 | That's one big in DC has said, hey, look at this. |
| 0:59.4 | Project 2025 will destroy America. Look it up. That of course is President Joe Biden and |
| 1:06.5 | he's the one who started talking repeatedly about Project 2025 a couple of |
| 1:11.5 | weeks ago. The cynical take is that the Biden campaign is trying |
| 1:15.9 | to distract from the president's disastrous debate performance. That may be true. |
| 1:21.2 | But it's also true that Donald Trump was a bit jarred by the sudden focus on the 900-page plan |
| 1:28.3 | to consolidate almost all federal power around him. |
| 1:32.2 | Last week, Trump tried to distance himself from it, |
| 1:35.1 | posting on truth social, quote, |
| 1:37.4 | I know nothing about Project 2025. |
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