Chuck Darwin<p>Trump Caught Cheering Extremist Project He Says He Knows Nothing About</p><p>On Thursday, MSNBC dug up a clip from 2022 of Trump expressing some pretty convincing familiarity with the people behind <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a><br>—and potentially hinting at knowing that the document was in the works.</p><p>“Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as Heritjes to [sic] lay the groundwork,” Trump stumbled. </p><p>“And Heridges does such an incredible job at that,” Trump added, stumbling again.</p><p>“They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do, when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America, and that’s coming,” Trump said, seeming to imply Project 2025.</p><p>The comments were made during an April 2022 keynote speech by Trump at a Heritage Foundation event where he was introduced by Heritage Foundation President Kevin <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>. </p><p>In that speech, he praised Heritage Board Chairman Barb Van <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andel</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Gaby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaby</span></a> as well as Heritage fellows Tom <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a> and Mark <a href="https://c.im/tags/Morgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Morgan</span></a></p><p>—all of whom he now claims he doesn’t know at all.</p><p>“Already we have shown the power of our winning formula, <br>working closely with many of the great people at Heritage over the four incredible years that we’ve worked with you a lot and we were just discussing it with Kevin,” Trump said during the 2022 speech in his typical rambling style. </p><p>“They’re going to work on some other things that are going to be very exciting, I think, Kevin, I think maybe the most exciting of all.”</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@MarvClowder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MarvClowder</span></a></span><br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/183735/trump-caught-cheering-project-2025-video" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/183735/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-caught-cheering-project-2025-video</span></a></p>