Project 2025 ex-director denounces Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’
Paul Dans blames former boss Kevin Roberts for blueprint's downgrading after inflammatory interview
The former director of Project 2025, a conservative plan to overhaul the US government, has blamed violent rhetoric" from his former boss Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation thinktank, for the blueprint's downgrading as Donald Trump has sought to publicly distance himself from it.
Paul Dans, who resigned as head of the project in July after it threatened to become an electoral liability for Trump, said it was damaged after Roberts made inflammatory comments in a podcast that were widely interpreted as a veiled threat against leftwingers if they resisted an envisioned conservative takeover.
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