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Donald Trump has repeatedly denied any involvement with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
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But The Washington Post reported that Trump flew with the foundation leader in 2022.
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Project 2025 is an ultra-conservative playbook that aims to reform the executive branch.
Former President Donald Trump took a 45-minute private flight in April 2022 with Heritage Foundation Chairman Kevin Roberts, The Washington Post reported this week, citing sources familiar with the trip.
Trump has repeatedly denied any ties to the Project 2025 camp, even saying in a July social media post that he had “no idea who’s in charge” of the ultraconservative playbook that seeks to overhaul the executive branch.
The Post obtained and published a photo of Trump and Roberts posing smiling on a private jet, which refutes Trump’s denials.
According to the news agency, Trump and Roberts flew together to a Heritage Foundation conference, where Trump gave a speech in which he referred to the then-planned Project 2025.
Neither Trump nor the Heritage Foundation immediately responded to Business Insider’s request for comment.
At the time of the 2022 flight, the Heritage Foundation had not yet completed Project 2025. A Heritage official told The Post that Robert broached the subject with Trump during the flight, but the former president didn’t seem interested.
People familiar with the trip told the outlet that Heritage chartered the flight because Trump’s private plane was undergoing repairs at the time. The men flew from Palm Beach, Florida, to Amelia Island, where the foundation’s annual conference is held.
Heritage Foundation and Project 2025
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank based in Washington, DC, that is behind the controversial 922-page Project 2025 playbook.
Project 2025 is essentially a roadmap for implementing extremely conservative policies if Trump wins in 2024.
“Time is short, and conservatives need a plan,” Project 2025’s website reads. “The project will create a playbook of actions to take in the first 180 days of the new administration to provide swift relief to Americans suffering under the left’s devastating policies.”
Some of the extreme proposals include abolishing the Department of Education and the “woke-dominated public school system,” disbanding the FBI in the fight against misinformation, and ending the “war on fossil fuels.”
Trump has denied any involvement in the project. However, the Heritage Foundation was a sponsor of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, where Trump was nominated as the party’s presidential candidate.
The former president called the people behind Project 2025 part of the “radical right” during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20.
“Some of them, I know who they are, but they’re very conservative,” he said at the rally. “They’re kind of the antithesis of the radical left. You have the radical left and you have the radical right.”
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