A letter to the editor from Rhino Times reader Christian Rice

Trump claims to have no knowledge of Project 2025.  No surprise he is yet again lying.  How do we know?

1)Trump has many ties to the Heritage Foundation (authors of Project 2025). He was a keynote speaker at their 2022 conference where he announced the work the foundation did (Project 2025) would be crucial to his policy goals. Are we supposed to believe he didn’t know what he was saying in 2022?  Nope, Trump is lying.

2) His last administration implemented an even higher percentage of Heritage Foundations’ recommendations than Reagan. (Trump 67% per the foundation’s website, Regan ~33%) Are we supposed to believe he has turned his back on their advice suddenly?  Nope, Trump is lying.

3) Over 20 individuals who Trump appointed to his last administration are active authors in Project 2025.  Are we supposed to believe his influence was lost on these individuals?  Nope, Trump is lying.

Project 2025 clearly shows the modern conservative’s priorities and what doesn’t matter to them:

  1. Complete ban on abortions, without exceptions (because women’s health doesn’t matter)
  2. ⁠End marriage equality (because freedom of religion doesn’t matter)
  3. ⁠Elimination of unions and worker protections (because worker’s rights don’t matter)
  4. ⁠Defund the FBI and Homeland Security (because controls on power don’t matter)
  5. ⁠Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA, and more (Because environment and science don’t matter)
  6. ⁠Cut Social Security (because wealthy people matter more than elderly)
  7. ⁠Cut Medicare (because wealthy people matter more than elderly)
  8. ⁠Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools (because freedom of religion doesn’t matter)
  9. ⁠End the Affordable Care Act (no longer says replace Trump failed to do that ‘in two weeks’ as he promised last time).
  10. ⁠Ban contraceptives (because women’s rights don’t matter)
  11. ⁠Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1% (Because only money for wealthy and big business matters, NOT YOU)
  12. ⁠End climate protections: (because science doesn’t matter, and profits are more important than the environment)
  13. ⁠Deregulate big business and the oil industry (because profits are more important than impact to the greater good of the communities that big business has a history or poisoning, cheating, and taking advantage of in the name of greed)

Trump has a history of lying and a history of favoring the wealthy and big business over the average American. Just remember in 2017, Trump passed a bill where people who make less than 75k per year have their taxes increased every two years until 2027.  Yet he gave the wealthy and big business permanent tax cuts.  So yeah, he knows what he is doing just like he knew in 2016.  Step on the average man for the benefit of the wealthy.   So of course, he is yet again lying. Not complicated.

 Christian Rice