Does Project 2025 describe the platform for a second Trump presidency?
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The Heritage Foundation has long admired Orban. In a 2022 interview with 'Hungarian Conservative,' Kevin Roberts [former president of The Heritage Foundation and man who spearheaded Project 2025] said, 'Modern Hungary is not just a model for conservative statecraft, but the model.' Project 2025's ambition to staff the government with conservative loyalists may be familiar to Orban. Outside observers said Hungary's 2022 election was 'marred by the absence of a level playing field' spurred by a 'pervasive overlap' between state institutions and Orban's party, including a favorable media ownership structure and changes to the voting system. In June, tens of thousands of Hungarians gathered to protest his policies and his party's suppression of political opposition.
-Project 2025 Leader Working to Implement Policies of Putin Ally, Newsweek, 7-5-2024
'Some on the right -- severe right -- came up with this Project 25 and I don't even know [them], I mean some of them. I know who they are, but they're very, very conservative...I don't know anything about it. I don't want to know anything about it.'
-Donald Trump, Michigan rally, 7-20-2024
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