Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader despite saying he doesn’t know people behind the plan

Despite claiming to know “nothing” of Project 2025, or the people behind it, former president Donald Trump has long-held connections to authors of the conservative presidential transition plan and at one point reportedly took a private flight with its leader.

In April of 2022, Trump took a 45-minute private flight with Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation – a right-wing think tank group responsible for Project 2025 – to attend a conference in Florida for the group,The Washington Post reported. 

A photo, obtained by The Post, depicts Trump and Roberts smiling beside one another while riding the private jet.

According to a press release published on the group’s website, Trump served as the keynote speaker at the April 2022 event attended by “top Heritage Foundation supporters”.

“During his four years as president, his administration worked closely with Heritage on a number of policy initiatives. In addition, dozens of Heritage staff and alumni worked in the Trump administration; several of whom have since returned to Heritage,” a statement from the press release says.

The discovery contradicts Trump’s statement from July where he claimed to “know nothing about Project 2025” and “have no idea who is behind it.”

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last month.

The former president’s statement arrived amid negative attention about Project 2025, a 900-page plan crafted by former Trump administration officials and right-wing individuals that serves as a blueprint for the next Republican president.

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