Project 2025: Brought to You by 30 Once and Future Trump Guys Who Kept Him from Draining the Swamp

by Scott Creighton

Taking a closer look at this Mandate for Leadership plan from the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) the one Donald Trump pretends he has nothing to do with, it became clear to me... this is just his transition team plan to hit the ground running and lose no time remaking America into Margaret Thatcher's fevered neoliberal wet dream.

How do I know? Because they tell you it is and because it's right there on the first page of the document (I added a bit for clarity by the gray text is original)

30 former Trump administration members worked on this transition plan including several who were on his first transition team. None of them were the 'bad people' Trump says he fired during his first term. ALL OF THEM remained or were given better jobs or moved into private sector positions to cash out.

These are the folks who, if you believe RFK Jr. (see video at end of this article) convinced Donald Trump to give up on the 'drain the swamp' plan and instead to EMBRACE THE SWAMP and make it his own.

And here they are, LITERALLY DESIGNING HIS NEXT TERM IN OFFICE.

And you think THIS TIME he's going to stick to his populist promises?!? Are you stupid or just brainwashed like the old Obamaites were in 20212?!? Cus it's GOTTA be one of those choices.

Here is the list from their own document:

1. Jonathan Berry... He previously served as Chief Counsel for the Trump transition
2. David R. Burton... manager of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Tax Policy Center
3. Adam Candeub... served as acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Justice Department during the Trump Administration
4. Dustin J. Carmack... served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe in the Trump Administration... studied at Tel Aviv University
5. Brendan Carr... currently serves as the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission appointed by Donald Trump in 2017
6. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD...  previously served as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development appointed by Donald Trump
7. Ken Cuccinelli... served as Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2019 and then, from November 2019 through the end of the Trump Administration, as Acting Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During his tenure as Acting Deputy Secretary, Ken also served as the Chief Regulatory Officer for the Department of Homeland Security of the Trump Administration
8. Rick Dearborn... served as Deputy Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump... also served as Executive Director of the 2016 President-elect Donald Trump transition team.
9. Thomas F. Gilman... served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Trump Administration.
10. Mandy M. Gunasekara... During the Trump Administration, Mandy served as the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation.
11. Gene Hamilton is Vice-President and General Counsel of America First Legal Foundation. Under the Trump Administration, Gene served as Counselor to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice; Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security; General Counsel on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
12. (America First Legal is led by a president, vice president, and executive director. Stephen Miller, the former senior advisor to president Donald Trump, is the organization's founder and president. The vice president is Gene Hamilton, a Department of Justice official under Trump, and the executive director is Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general under Trump)
13. Jennifer Hazelton... Deputy Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs at USAID under Trump Administration
14. Dennis Dean Kirk... During the Trump Administration, Dennis served in senior positions at the Office of Personnel Management and was nominated by President Trump to be Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board.
15. Bernard L. McNamee... formerly a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the Trump Administration
16. Christopher Miller served in several positions during the Trump Administration, including as Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism,
17. Mora Namdar ... served as senior advisor for critical issues at the U.S. State Department and was appointed by President Donald Trump
18. Peter Navarro... one of only three senior White House officials to serve with Donald Trump from the 2016 campaign to the end of the President’s first term.
    
19. William Perry Pendley... leader of the Bureau of Land Management for President Donald Trump.
    
20. Max Primorac... was acting Chief Operating Officer and Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, at the U.S. Agency for International Developmentduring the Trump Administration
    
21. Roger Severino... director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to 2021,during the Trump Administration.
    
22. Kiron K. Skinner... served as Director of Policy Planning and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State from 2018 to 2019 and was a member of the Defense Business Board at the U.S. Department of Defense in 2020during the Trump Administration.
    
23. Brooks D. Tucker... served in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs from 2017 to 2021 and as Acting Chief of Staff from 2020 to 2021 during the Trump Administration.
    
24. Hans A. von Spakovsky... a former member of President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. 
25. Russ Vought... served in President Trump’s Cabinet as Director of the Office of Management and Budget
26. William L. Walton... served in President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team as Agency Action Leader for all the federal economic agencies.
27. Paul Winfree... was Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Director of Budget Policy at the White House of the Trump Administration.
28. Paul Dans...served in the Trump Administration as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as OPM’s White House liaison, and as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
29. Steven Groves is the Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Groves served in the Trump Administration, first as Ambassador Nikki Haley’s Chief of Staff at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He later joined the White House as Assistant Special Counsel, representing the White House in the Mueller investigation. Groves also served as White House Deputy Press Secretary.
    

(BTW the Kamala people did a full rundown of these Trumpites who wrote this transition plan on Twitter complete with their official Trump Administration headshots)

Uh yeah. They will be right back in office just as soon as you vote for Trump. And you will get not only more of the same...

... but much much worse. Because this time, as sellout RFK Jr. says... Trump is a lame duck to start with so they KNOW he can't be of use to them after this go round.

So why not drain Trump's usefulness entirely and ruin his reputation in the meantime. 

Here is RFK Jr. making excuses as to why Trump didn't drain the swamp like he promised. According to Bobby 'Speed Ball' Kennedy, Trump was influenced by lobbyists, billionaires and businessmen. 

I thought the whole point of hiring a billionaire for the job of president was because since he was rich, those folks would have no hold over him.

Guess it didn't work that way in 2017.

So why would it work that way now especially when you have already seen his transition team and their blueprints for Trump presidency and it REEKS of the same old shit just much much worse?

Oh the Copeium is good this time of year ain't it Meryl?

Here's Bobby 'Killed My Wife' Kennedy making excuses for Grumpy Old Man Trump. Enjoy. Notice all the 'product' sitting next to him for this interview? Fucking disgusting people.

(BTW Meryl Nass seems to be endorsing this RFK Jr. BS about Trump's failure to live up to his promises from 2016. But of course she is.)