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They’re certainly not paying for themIs Mexico giving out the medals?
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They’re certainly not paying for themIs Mexico giving out the medals?
As he entered the final stretch of the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump spent much of this month trying to disown the highly Trumpy, Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 — to the point that he even got his fans to boo the initiative during a recent campaign rally. His protracted freakout over the conservative project — to which he has multiple direct ties, and which is only as extreme as it is largely because of his influence — is driven almost entirely by Trump’s fear over one thing.
When the twice-impeached ex-president and convicted felon took to social media in early July to make the (patently absurd) claim that “I know nothing about Project 2025, [and] I have no idea who is behind it,” he added, “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” He did not specify what “things” he meant.
But according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, shortly before he posted that brief message, Trump had been privately — and very bitterly — complaining about the abortion policies laid out in the lengthy Project 2025 manifesto, and trashing the Project 2025-linked “lunatics” who keep demanding unpopular abortion bans and restrictions. Among the policy proposals in Project 2025’s policy road map are plans to end federal approval for abortion pills, use federal agencies for expanded “abortion surveillance,” restrict access to emergency contraception, end the federal requirement that hospitals provide medically necessary emergency abortion care, and revive a 150-year-old law that could serve as a de facto national abortion ban.
There was an overlooked story last week about how allegedly Trump accepted a $10 million donation from Egypt to his cash-starved 2016 campaign. After Trump was elected, the US policy toward El-Sisi and Egypt changed. The campaign donation would be illegal but someone (*cough* Bill Barr) delayed the investigation into Trump campaign donations from foreign donors and now the 5 year statute of limitations has expired....
I have no doubt that the only objection he has to abortion is that he knows it will drive away women's votes from the GQP.

There was an overlooked story last week about how allegedly Trump accepted a $10 million donation from Egypt to his cash-starved 2016 campaign. After Trump was elected, the US policy toward El-Sisi and Egypt changed. The campaign donation would be illegal but someone (*cough* Bill Barr) delayed the investigation into Trump campaign donation from foreign donors and now the 5 year statute of limitations has expired.
One of the reasons that Trump has avoided having position statements and party platforms is that he's transactional... or to put it another way, he's for sale to the highest bidder.
Does he care about abortion? No. Does he understand the issue of abortion? Unlikely. Is he going to take the position that he thinks will get him more votes (so that he can avoid going to prison)? Absolutely.


