2024 Election
Terrified Trump Screams at ‘Kamal’ Harris on Truth Social in a Rage, ‘SHE’LL COMPLETELY DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!’
Project 2025 is the albatross around Trump's neck.
Donald Trump is having a bit of a freakout on Truth Social about the fact that the Harris campaign is tying him so closely to Project 2025. I know you’ve heard of it by now, not just because it’s nefarious and awful, but because Kamala has been tying Trump to it. And with good reason.
Early yesterday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to decry the campaign strategy. He posted (you don’t actually have to click it; the text is down there) yet another long-form grievance against the Harris campaign, this time focused on Project 2025, which he has been trying to distance himself from.
“Lyin’ Kamal Harris, who refuses to do interviews or press conferences because she has no idea how to answer the questions, and is now losing in the polls, continues to make a thing called Project 2025 the central theme of her campaign, advertising and all. Lyin’ Kamala has been informed, legally, that I have, and had, nothing to do with it, NEVER READ IT, NEVER SAW IT, but her ads continue, full blast. When you see them talking about Project 2025, remember, Kamala is lying, just like she lied about working at McDonalds (she didn’t!), or added 818,000 new jobs that didn’t exist (a fraud!), and sooo many other lies. Just like San Francisco and California, itself, she would, if given the chance, COMPLETELY DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!”
There are a few important takeaways from his latest meltdown. As usual, he pads the text with nonsense nicknames and misspellings and randomized capitalization of words. And, as usual, he lies about the other person lying. In this one, he even stubbornly repeats the lie that Kamala lied about working at McDonald’s — she didn’t lie. She worked there. That’s not a thing normal people lie about.
But then Trump used a phrase intended to vaguely threaten Harris with legal proceedings:
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“Lyin’ Kamala has been informed, legally, that I have, and had, nothing to do with it, NEVER READ IT, NEVER SAW IT, but her ads continue, full blast.”

He’s familiar with the law he’s hinting at here. You can’t make untrue public statements about someone with the intent of harming their reputation. Trump currently owes his rape victim, E. Jean Carroll, more than $80 million for doing just that.
He believes that if he “legally informs” Harris that he’s not involved in Project 2025, she has to stop saying he is, or he can sue her for slander.
The problem for Trump is that he then would have to prove she was lying, knew she was lying when she said it, and said it in order to defame him. He can’t prove any of that.
You see, Trump played a dangerous game when he decided one day that he wanted to be president. Imagine if you will the thought processes, the preparation, the careful planning that normally go into a politician running for president.
Donald Trump did none of those things. No law degree, no stint in the military, no minor or major public offices. A famous guy just decided he wanted to be president.
The closest this country has come to a leader like Trump is George W. Bush — a man who became president not because he’d ever been particularly good at anything, but because his dad was president and he was likeable enough that Americans wanted to have a beer with him,
Dubya did NOT set out to become president. I remain firmly convinced that the office was always intended for his brother Jeb!, a man far more suited to politics than his chuckling, coke-snorting, AWOL sibling who mixed his metaphors like a mojito.
There is an establishment in place in American politics, whether we like it or not. They key players have spent their entire lives cultivating ideas, interns, and ideologues on both sides of the aisle. We all have our preferences for policy, but we are led by parties, not people.
Trump had no idea what he was getting himself into. The establishment on “that side” has been setting the groundwork for radical rightward policy changes for longer than most people reading this have been alive. Think tanks and strategists, focus groups and funders all have worked toward implementing the change they want.
The Heritage Foundation has been at the epicenter of that effort. There are other groups that get things they want, of course: ALEC, the John Birch Society, the Federalist Society, etc. But Heritage is old school, old money, old ideas with a lot of pull.
And at the risk of sounding like I’m saying something nice about Donald Trump, he’s not a complete idiot. He knows their ideas are bad for winning over people’s hearts and minds. Project 2025 is a Christian Nationalist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, and progress-phobic pile of dung that would lurch the country back 100 years or more in its advancements toward equality and fairness.
It would undo practically every good thing we’ve done short of ending slavery.
Trump, in his quest for glory and fame, just wants to win. He doesn’t actually care what policy is implemented, he just wants to be in charge when it is. Anything good that comes of it he will take credit for, and anything bad he will blame on someone else.
Project 2025, even if it weren’t thoroughly populated with policymakers firmly attached to Trump through their association with his first term, is still going to happen if a Republican wins. It wouldn’t matter if it was our hero-of-the-day Liz Cheney, or Mitt Romney, or Jeff Flake, or any of the many Republicans who have become “Never-Trumpers” over the last 8 years. It would still happen. The GOP is beholden to the Heritage Foundation, because with their money and behind-the-scenes work, they are responsible for key Republicans holding key offices in key areas.
Ask yourself why a man with only a “concept of a plan” for governing America would want to distance himself from this concrete one that will happen if he’s elected.
That’s why Kamala keeps repeating it.
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