September 1, 2024
Although the Trump-Vance campaign has been trying to distance itself from Project 2025, both politicians have close ties to its members.
Several of Donald Trump‘s current and former staff members, including his current press secretary Karoline Leavitt, have been involved in The Heritage Foundation initiative, which aims to put another “conservative” administration into office by providing service member training and policy proposals.
Among its goals is to enact an executive overhaul by replacing civil servants with partisan loyalists, severely restricting access to abortion and disbanding the Department of Education.
Additionally, it has been revealed that JD Vance wrote the forward to The Heritage Foundation’s CEO and Project 2025 architect Kevin Robert’s forthcoming novel, “Dawn’s Early Light,” which has been strategically delayed in publication amid backlash to the radical right-wing agenda. It is slated to be released on September 24.
Trump said in early July about Project 2025: “I have no idea who is behind it. They are extreme, they’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it.”
Details about the book and its content, including Vance’s forward, were obtained in late July by The New Republic via NetGalley, which provides advance copies of books to reviewers and booksellers.
However, it was removed from the platform in early July following poor press coverage.
Harper Collins decided to soften the book’s subtitle and cover following intense scrutiny of the Trump campaign’s ties to Project 2025.
It was originally supposed to be titled “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America” featuring a matchstick on its cover.
However, it has since been scrapped and replaced with the title, “Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America,” without a match pictured on its cover.
Additionally, inflammatory language such as conservatives being on a “warpath” to “burn down… institutions” including the FBI, Department of Justice and universities has been removed or toned down, although it will still be included in some sales pages.
The language will also be found in Vance’s foreword, which ends with a call to action for followers to “circle the wagons and load the muskets” as an “essential weapon” in the “fights that lay [sic] ahead.”
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Bugs Marlowe