Trump said Project 2025 had nothing to do with him, it was a massive lie in the middle of his campaign, a huge swindle of American voters, and you wouldn’t really know it from today’s coverage.
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In this case they could also very easily cover it from a political scandal angle, if they wanted to, because it is.
The President lied repeatedly and aggressively about a huge part of his policy agenda. If it were anyone but Trump, people would understand that to be a colossal scandal.
That's because they were complicit in that framing. Everyone on the fucking planet knew he was lying. So did they. But they couldn't be bothered to point that out.
There are literally still, after all this, diehards chirping that “he has nothing to do with project 2025, you’ve been brainwashed by the media!” Cult brain is a powerful thing
I do believe NYT was lying on purpose because they wanted Project 2025 but even after the last ~3 weeks I cannot understand what it is they think they're going to get out of it. This is not a plan that's going to result in massive profits; it's probably the opposite.
You wouldn't have known it all along. Remember when he said mid-Summer, I know nothing about it, I haven't read it. and the media response was a fact check against a Dem calling him out saying "well, he denies it but we can see that some of his former staff were involved" and didn't call it a lie.
The lie was easy to debunk. Trump in 2022: "The critical job of institutions, such аs Heritage to lay the groundwork … they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do … when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America, and that’s coming."
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The President lied repeatedly and aggressively about a huge part of his policy agenda. If it were anyone but Trump, people would understand that to be a colossal scandal.
But now that they have the power it will all come to pass.
Due to the capital interests behind fascism.
Nothing sticks.
Nobody remembers.
It's just washed away by the next blast of propaganda.
Don’t media shareholders want us raging online and eventually fighting in the streets?
Seems it turned out exactly as planned.
Still, it sucks.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/trump-policy-project-2025-executive-orders-invs/index.html