CNN's Abby Phillip Calls 'BS' On Trump's Project 2025 Dodge — And She Has Receipts
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The former president claimed to "know nothing" about the extreme policy wish list crafted by many of his own advisers.
CNN’s Abby Phillip on Tuesday thoroughly fact-checked Donald Trump’s claim that he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025 ― presenting evidence of the former president’s connections with the people and groups that drew up the bundle of far-right policy proposals and the plans to implement them.
On Friday, Trump claimed in a social media post: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.”
“That’s BS, no matter which way you shovel it,” Phillip said.
First, she showed footage of Trump in 2022 praising the Heritage Foundation ― the group that created the extreme blueprint for a potential second Trump administration ― as a “legendary institution.”
“So just how influential was Heritage in the Trump administration?” Phillip went on. “Well, just listen to Trump’s own former vice president.”