You Will Anyway: Agenda 47

Friday, July 5, 2024

Agenda 47

Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024.

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The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project.

Social media histories are already being plumbed.

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Heritage's "Presidential Personnel Database" already has 4,000+ entries.

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Those queasy about testing the limits of Trump's power will get flagged and rejected.

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Trump himself spends little time plotting governing plans. But he is well aware of a highly coordinated campaign to be ready to jam government offices with loyalists willing to stretch traditional boundaries.

His inner circle plans to purge anyone viewed as hostile to the hard-edged, authoritarian-sounding plans he calls "Agenda 47."

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Johnny McEntee — one of Trump's closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025.

One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration. Miller is charting an even harder line on legal and immigration policy than last time. While he maps a White House return, he's president of America First Legal, which vows to fight "lawless executive actions and the Radical Left."

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The massive headhunting quest aims to recruit 20,000 people to serve in the next administration, as a down payment on 4,000 presidential appointments + potential replacements for as many as 50,000 federal workers who are "policy-adjacent," as Trumpers put it.

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The government-in-waiting is being orchestrated by the Heritage Foundation's well-funded Project 2025, which already has published a 920-page policy book from 400+ contributors.

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Heritage president Kevin Roberts tells us his apparatus is "orders of magnitude" bigger than anything ever assembled for a party out of power.

The policy series, "Mandate for Leadership," dates back to the 1980s.

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Technically, this apparatus will be inherited by any Republican nominee — Heritage officials tell us they've briefed the campaigns of Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.

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Here's what the early days of a second Trump presidency would look like, based on his words and our conversations with Trump insiders:

Axios

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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 02:50 pm:

“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it,” [Trump] said.

The Hill

Big lie.

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."

Wait. "I know nothing about Project 2025." Blew that up in the next sentence.

UPDATE 07/06/2024:

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