Donald Trump’s Project 2025 problems

Project 2025 problems

Despite Donald Trump’s best efforts, Project 2025 isn’t going anywhere. Its former director, Paul Dans, made the media rounds this week, where he attacked the leadership of the Trump campaign in a New York Times interview, while simultaneously telling CNN that “Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025.”

Dans, who stepped down from Project 2025 over the summer, accused top Trump aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles of “malpractice” for scheduling a presidential debate so early that it allowed President Joe Biden enough time to drop out. He is, however, excited at the involvement of Corey Lewandowski, Ben Carson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Project 2025 surged to the forefront of the 2024 election after Kevin Roberts, who helms the Heritage Foundation, warned of a second American Revolution that would “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Dans told Kaitlan Collins in an interview that he was blindsided by remarks like those.

In recent months, Democrats have used Project 2025 as a cudgel against Trump, prompting him to repeatedly insist that he has nothing to do with it. In fact, Dans noted that “a lot of the Heritage folks worked with the DeSantis campaign, so you might say it is more of a DeSantis project.”

“Has any outside entity done more damage to the Trump campaign than Project 2025?” one GOP consultant told Cockburn. “You have to ask yourself when Heritage donors and board members are going to start considering doing something about Kevin Roberts.”

Cockburn has previously reported that, even at the height of the presidential primaries, Roberts’s Heritage had “near-daily conversations” with DeSantis’s team and “monthly” in-person meetings. After the organization’s blueprint has turned into a punching bag, it’s worth wondering if Project 2025 is trying to sabotage DeSantis 2028 before it even takes off…

Shady New York politics are back, baby!

The walls may be closing in around New York City mayor Eric Adams; his police commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned this week, as the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan continues its investigation, of unknown subject matter, into the mayor’s inner circle.

The feds seized Caban’s phone, along with devices belonging to other top Adams advisors, this week. Last year, the feds seized Adams’s cellphones and iPad in public, prompting the New York Post editorial board to wonder if the feds were trying to humiliate the mayor for publicly clashing with the Biden administration over illegal immigration.

“Seizing Mayor Adams’s phones and tablet on the street in public is the latest sign the feds aren’t simply investigating him: they’re out to inflict maximum embarrassment in a political vendetta, presumably in retribution for the noise he’s made about President Biden’s disastrous border policies,” it wrote at the time.

Caban’s departure is the first since the latest round of phone seizures; according to the AP, “federal authorities are also investigating Caban’s twin brother, James Caban, a former NYPD sergeant who runs a nightclub security business.”

Adams is not up for reelection until 2025, but political vultures are already starting to circle. New York City comptroller Brad Lander, a defund-the-police activist, is already running. Another potential Adams rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo, was thrust back into the spotlight this week, when the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hauled him in under oath to answer for his controversial Covid-era nursing home policies that the committee blamed for thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Trump gets Loomered

He only hires the best people… alarm bells were ringing this week when Laura Loomer was spotted boarding Trump Force One ahead of the former president’s debate with Kamala Harris. Loomer also joined Trump at the 9/11 commemorations in NYC, marking a tragedy she has previously described as an inside job. The conspiracy theorist’s other highlights include chaining herself outside Twitter’s New York headquarters to protest her ban, jumping the fence into Nancy Pelosi’s property to “protest” immigration and getting banned from Uber Eats for Islamophobia. She has also previously run for Congress as a Republican in Palm Beach.

After popping up in Trump’s inner circle, Loomer tweeted that were Kamala to win the election, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center,” a remark that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, yes, really, described as  “appalling and extremely racist.”

“Remember when you destroyed your family so you could have sex with a Zangief cosplayer?” Loomer replied. “Tell me again how you and the Arby’s in your pants are representatives of the GOP?”

Classy!

Cat people

Eat your hearts out, Haitian migrants (not literally, please), there’s a new accused cat abuser in town. New York magazine caught heat over a recent anonymous article they published wherein a cat owner describes how she started neglecting her beloved pet after having a baby and suffering from post-partum depression. The woman describes forgetting to feed the cat, letting its litter box overflow with excrement and angrily pushing him off her when he tried to snuggle. The cat got fat due to lack of exercise and was unable to clean itself, causing bald spots in its fur, and seemed lethargic and unhappy.

The article ends with no sound resolution, just the owner’s acknowledgment that she has treated her cat badly.

Readers cried at the horrific treatment of the kitty cat and demanded New York magazine out the abusive owner and get the cat to a safe home. New York magazine has instead released a statement assuring readers that they obtained vet records for the cat and confirmed it is healthy and being treated well. The owner allegedly started caring for the cat again after writing the piece but before publication and a veterinarian gave it a “clean bill of health.” She took the cat to a “second, independent vet” after the outcry from readers, and the vet said “they found no signs of neglect.”

“The magazine does not condone harm to animals or treat animal abuse lightly and regrets that we did not give reader a clearer picture of Lucky’s health and safety.”