Trump Pretends He Knows Nothing About Project 2025 As Public Turns Against It

A new poll has found that more and more Americans are not only aware of Project 2025 from The Heritage Foundation, but also that they absolutely hate it. This is why Donald Trump has desperately been trying to distance himself from the plan that was crafted by the people closest to him - and that he endorsed during an event last year. But Trump can't run from this, and the public is acutely aware of what's going on, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks trying to convince the American public that he knows nothing at all about Project 2025. Like what is this thing? Totally new to me. I don't even know what it is he says, in fact, he most recently said that this past Saturday at a rally in Michigan. So it's not like he's let off the gas on trying to distance himself from project 2025. And there is a very good reason why Donald Trump is distancing himself from this, uh, project, this 900 page manifesto from the Heritage Foundation. And it's because the public is waking up to what's in that 900 page document and they overwhelmingly reject it. A new poll this week has this to say about what voters think of Project 2025. Uh, a navigator research survey conducted between July 11th and 14th, uh, found that 54% of Americans were familiar with Project 2025, which calls for the weakening and ratification, uh, of, uh, federal agencies and the consolidation of power with the president, the elimination of job protections for thousands of federal employees, and the withdrawal of Mefe Stone, a pill used in a majority of abortions in the US from the market.

That is an increase of 25 percentage points from their poll on project 2025, just a month ago. So 54% now say, yeah, I know about it. And that's up, uh, uh, 25 points from their last survey. So now a majority Americans do say, yes, I know about it. And what do they have to say about it? Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably while 43% had unfavorable views. A 24 point increase since June.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. That is a good indication that voters do not like this extreme authoritarian agenda that Donald Trump would of course, in enact if he becomes president again, because in spite of Donald Trump's denials of what this is, who's behind it? I got no idea. He's actually on video a year and a half ago, praising the Heritage Foundation and their leader for drafting the plan of how he will govern if he wins in 2024. He knew about it a year and a half ago. 80% of the people that have worked on it are people that have worked for him at some point in their lives. So these are Trump people that wrote the Trump plan, that Trump knew about a year and a half ago, and he's still out there today saying, I got no clue what it is. And that's the part that people also need to be aware of. It's not just about how horrible the plan is, it's about the fact that Donald Trump is lying to your face, that he doesn't know who's behind it or what's in it.

He's known for a year and a half folks. There is video evidence of it. Do not fall for his lies. Do not fall for the right wing propaganda. This is what they want. And it's far more than just those few little points I pointed out. I've talked about it in countless videos over the last six months. It is a dastardly plan to reshape the United States, focusing the power with a Trump presidency and basically spelling doom for everybody else.