Project 2025 Director Steps Down After Facing Backlash From Trump Campaign 

The Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has announced he will step down.

Paul Dans who was the Director of Project 2025, has announced he will step down from the “controversial” project.

Dans, in an email, wrote, “Friends and patriots, to everything there is a season. We completed what we set out to do, which was to create a unified conservative vision, bringing together over 110 leading organizations united behind the cause of deconstructing the administrative state.”

Since the release of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 guidelines, the mainstream media has been relentless in attaching the project to Trump.

Trump’s campaign manager in a statement shared, “President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way.”

NEWS: Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump admin, per internal email. This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down. Story TK.

— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) July 30, 2024

Trump himself has also condemned Project 2025.

Take a look:

Trump Bashes Project 2025 and Takes Jab At Radical Right😢 pic.twitter.com/E2wo9N9mAv

— Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) July 20, 2024

The New York Post added these details:

The director of Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 announced he would step down on Tuesday, drawing cheers from former President Donald Trump’s campaign which has worked to distance itself from the right-wing initiative.

Paul Dans told colleagues on Tuesday that he is leaving the project, The Post has confirmed.“Friends and patriots, to everything there is a season. We completed what we set out to do, which was to create a unified conservative vision, bringing together over 110 leading organizations united behind the cause of deconstructing the administrative state,” Dans wrote in an email first obtained by Politico.

“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” Trump campaign senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a joint statement.

JUST IN: Trump campaign issues statement after director of Project 2025 steps down pic.twitter.com/Jjl1w29ILm

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 30, 2024

Here’s what CNN reported:

The director of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump term, has stepped down amid intense criticism including from the former president.

Paul Dans, a former top adviser in Trump’s administration, steered Project 2025 as it carved a leading role in shaping discourse around what conservatives dreamed they could accomplish if Republicans won back the White House. While a source with knowledge of the planning said Project 2025 would be effectively ending its policy operations, others familiar with the matter noted that it was always the plan to move on to the next phase now – and efforts to build a conservative personnel apparatus would continue.

Project 2025’s plans to radically reshape the federal government and American life, spelled out in detail in an exhaustive 900-page playbook, provided ample fodder for Democrats to warn against Trump’s return to power.

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