01.02.2026 | 15:11
newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-mal...rumpism-project-2025
Ispada kako su politički komentatori u Americi iznenađeni (i uvrijeđeni) da Trump ipak provodi Project 2025 koji Ameriku pretvara u državu nalik Putinovoj Rusiji.
> Then, at the September 2024 debate with Kamala Harris, Trump repeated the denial: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025.
> So there you have it. Trump said he had nothing to do with it. Case closed.
> Except, of course, for the 2022 speech where he praised Heritage for laying the groundwork for “exactly what our movement will do.” And the private plane ride with Kevin Roberts. And the track record. And the 140 former Trump administration officials who contributed to the document, including six former Cabinet members.
> Trump denied involvement. Therefore, claims tying him to Project 2025 were labeled misleading, lacking context, or outright false.
> This is a man who, according to The Washington Post’s own count, made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his first term. Thirty thousand.
> And the press, faced with this asymmetry, reached for the “both sides” playbook. They couldn’t say Trump was lying because that would be taking a side.
> A Common Dreams report from October 2025 summarized the situation: “In the critical months leading up to the election, many media outlets took Trump’s denial at face value, publishing fact checks and other commentary that painted Democrats’ warnings about his connection to the plan as alarmist or misleading.”
> “All those 2024 media fact checks that said, ‘Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025’ look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to ‘debunk’ a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.”
> A Trump denial is not a fact. That’s the thing. It never was. But for a significant portion of the political press, it functioned as one anyway.