Desperate times called for desperate measures as media organizations, liberal journalists and Democrats tried to tie former president Donald Trump to a conservative blueprint. However, Trump himself has purposely distanced himself from the project.
Fox News reports:
Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project and launched in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, is widely described as a conservative blueprint for a future Republican administration to overhaul various parts of the federal government. Trump has distanced himself from it, calling elements of the plan as “ridiculous” and “abysmal,” but liberal pundits insist a vote for Trump is a vote for Project 2025.
Despite Project 2025 being in the public domain for more than 15 months, liberal media outlets trained an especially intense spotlight on it following Biden’s infamous debate debacle, which was also when Democrats and their media allies embraced it as an anti-Trump talking point.
Heritage Foundation public relations director Noah Weinrich feels the left is using Project 2025 to distract voters. “It’s no surprise that the Harris-Biden regime and allies in the left-wing media have ramped up their false attacks on Project 2025 since Biden’s disastrous debate. They can’t run on their failed policies, so to distract the American people they are lying about what’s in Project 2025 and lying that we are connected to President Trump,” Weinrich told Fox News Digital.
Despite Trump declaring aspects “abysmal” within 25 days, from June 1 to June 26, the day before the debate, mainstream media was hammering the lies:
Project 2025 was mentioned on CNN 36 times, according to Grabien transcripts, including reruns. But in the days following the debate from June 28 to July 24, CNN mentioned it a whopping 463 times.
MSNBC had already allotted ample coverage to Project 2025, mentioning it 288 times in the 25 days leading up to the debate, according to transcripts. But after the debate, MSNBC mentioned it an astonishing 1,614 times in less than a month, in near-uniformly negative fashion.
The New York Times made reference to Project 2025 seven times during the same time period pre-debate, according to its website’s search results. After the debate, Project 2025 yielded 75 search results on the Gray Lady’s website.
ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” “The View” and “World News Tonight” had only mentioned Project 2025 three times prior to the debate but have sounded the alarm 29 times since, while morning and evening newscasts on NBC and CBS have mentioned Project 2025 a handful of times since the debate after previously ignoring it.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid said she’d vote for a Biden “in a coma” if Trump was the alternative before evoking Project 2025. “Yeah, Hitler, White House, we’re keeping him out. We’re keeping Project 2025 out — that’s all I care about,” Reid said.
Even after Trump began to distance himself from Project 2025, MSNBC host Katie Phang flatly called it the “blueprint” for a second Trump administration.
“It’s a far-right plan for destroying democracy that Trump’s team wants to implement on day one,” ABC “The VIew” co-host Joy Behar said earlier this month.