“Donald Trump’s recipe for revenge and punishment.” “Scary. Dystopian. Google it.” “Trump’s plan to become dictator on day one.” The Democrats are not holding back in their new offensive against Donald Trump. Ahead of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has launched a new, large-scale advertising campaign with slogans to scare Americans from voting for the former president. To allay their fears, they point to “Project 2025”. A more than 900-page plan, which Democrats say proves Trump’s dark intentions if he wins the election in November. Is it that simple? – People who Trump knows well “Project 2025” will replace bureaucrats with loyal Trump supporters, give the president extended powers, introduce big tax breaks and introduce abortion pill and porn bans. They want to shut down the Ministry of Education, which allegedly serves “the woke education cartel”. A “recipe for revenge and punishment” is written on one of the advertisements. Facsimile: Screenshot But the plan does not come from Donald Trump’s team. “Project 2025” was created by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. It is one of the most influential think tanks in Washington, having a major influence on the policies of Republican presidents. Trump has stubbornly claimed to have nothing to do with “Project 2025”: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it and I have no idea who is responsible for it,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social Thursday. Donald Trump arrived at a campaign rally in Miami, Florida on Tuesday. He claims he knows nothing about “Project 2025”. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell / AP He added that he had “nothing to do with it”. But he knows well those who are behind it, writes CNN. Dragkamp Nyhetskanalen has taken a thorough review of those connected to “Project 2025”. They have found that at least 140 people who have worked for Trump have been involved in the project. Including half of the listed authors, contributors and editors. In total, CNN has identified 240 people with ties both to Trump and to “Project 2025”. “He is trying to hide the link to his allies’ extreme ‘Project 2025′ agenda,” Biden said in a statement on Saturday. – The only problem? It was written for him, by those close to him, the president added. Joe Biden believes that Trump is closely linked to “Project 2025”. Here, Biden was at a meeting with a labor organization in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP But CNN points out that although there is a lot of overlap, there are things in “Project 2025” that Trump has not said he supports – like a porn ban. – Parts of it are clearly things Trump will work for if he wins in November. While there is more uncertainty about other things, Are Tågvold Flaten, political scientist and editor of amerikanspolitikk.no, tells news. He believes the uncertainty can benefit Trump. Some things in “Project 2025”, such as the ban on abortion pills, have met with resistance. These are things that Trump now distances himself from. “Project 2025 is a recipe for a Trump dictatorship from day one,” read this billboard. The photo was taken in January in Washington. Photo: Joy Asico-Smith / AP – There is now almost a tug-of-war between the Trump campaign and the Biden campaign about who is really behind this, and how much of it will become a reality if Trump wins, says Flaten. Some may also wonder why this is becoming a topic now. “Project 2025” is not new. The plan was presented in April last year. The timing is not accidental, says Flaten. – Smådesperate Thursday was the last day of the NATO summit in Washington, USA. But despite the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza and heightened tensions between the West and China, there is one topic that the public doesn’t seem to be getting over any time soon: Biden’s age and mental health. Demands that 81-year-old Biden throw in the towel and withdraw from the election campaign have come from many quarters after the debate with Trump at the end of June. Recently, such a demand came for the first time from a Democratic senator, as well as the actor George Clooney. Flaten believes that the Democrats, by attacking “Project 2025” and trying to unequivocally connect it to Trump, are trying to draw attention away from Biden’s health. Kristen Eichamer and Russ Pinta in the “Project 2025” tent tried to convince voters at a festival in Iowa in August in 2023. Photo: Charlie Neibergall / AP – Democrats are a little desperate to get the spotlight and focus back on Trump and what he can do , if he wins, says Flaten. But will the Democrats’ plan succeed? After all, Trump has apparently survived a series of scandals, lawsuits and upheavals. Flaten does not know whether it is the link to “Project 2025” that will be decisive for Trump: – I have little faith in the fact that this should be what brings Trump down. But it gives the Democrats something to point to and use to mobilize their own. And they need everything they can get in a day. Is time up for Biden? Listen to the foreign affairs editor’s podcast here: Published 12.07.2024, at 10.10
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