Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter One-Deportation.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Chapter One of Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal depicts how the lives of everyday Americans would be impacted by the policies outlined in Trumps’s Project 2025 and the return of Donald Trump to power. The fictional story follows Ammon Maher, a college student and immigrant, as he is detained and deported without due process due to his involvement in past campus protests. This narrative directly reflects Trump's campaign promises to crack down on student protesters and his administration's policies that target undocumented immigrants, including so-called "dreamers." The author of the serialized “2025: A Novel” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how these policies, if implemented, would violate civil liberties and human rights in an alarming and unjust manner. The podcast series aims to raise awareness of the very real dangers posed by Trump's extremist agenda and the disturbing implications of "Project 2025" for the American people. You can read
Chapter One of David Pepper’s “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novel
Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025 pod.com. We'd also like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode. Heather Thomas J. Smith Cameron Omid Abtahi, Kirk Acevedo and Bayo Akinfemi. Audio finishing by Marilys Ernst. This series is produced by David Pepper, Melissa, Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman. Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and the Bill Press Pod.
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| 1:06.0 | special podcast series on Trump's Project 2025, up close and personal. This podcast anticipates what would happen to |
| 1:16.5 | everyday Americans where Trump to return to power. Now, while the people and the stories in this series |
| 1:22.4 | are fictional, the policies that upend each of their lives and the country are all too real, |
| 1:29.4 | and all of them drawn directly from the pages of Project 2025 and Trump's own words and promises. |
| 1:38.3 | It's an adaptation of the serialized novel 2025 by former Democratic Ohio State Chair and a smart and effective pro-democracy |
| 1:47.6 | advocate, David Pepper. A link to his novel is in the episode notes. If you're as terrified |
| 1:55.0 | of Project 2025 and a second Trump term as we are, please subscribe, share, and review this podcast series. 2025. Part 1 |
| 2:21.8 | The November 2024 election demonstrated once again how evenly divided America was. |
| 2:29.9 | The key states remained too close to call late on Election Day. |
| 2:34.1 | But after a few days, margins that were mere slivers Tuesday grew wider. |
| 2:40.3 | The margin grew to 20,000 votes in Wisconsin, 5,000 in Georgia, 12,000 in Arizona, 20,000 in Pennsylvania, out of range. And by Thursday, the result was clear. By those 57,000 votes, 0.017% of the nation's population, the man who'd been unseated in 2020 was elected president again. On Friday, my editor at the Capitol Monthly pulled me into his office. |
| 3:11.2 | He knew that the tiny percentage difference in the election result was misleading. |
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