Axios reports:

Former President Trump on Friday disavowed the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which has sparked widespread news coverage about policy plans for a potential second Trump administration.

Why it matters: Project 2025 has long annoyed Trump and his top campaign officials, despite the deep links and allies shared by the two entities. Lately, Democrats have been attacking Project 2025 as a proxy for the stakes of defeating “MAGA Republicans.”

• Trump’s disavowal comes two days after Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts drew outrage from Democrats with his comments about a “second American Revolution” on Steve Bannon’s radio show.
• “[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Roberts said, declaring that “the radical left” was “apoplectic” because “our side is winning.”

What they’re saying: “I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

• “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Reality check: A plethora of former Trump administration officials have worked on and endorsed Project 2025. [Continue reading…]