Trump under fire from fellow Republicans over attempt to distance himself from Project 2025: Live updates

Donald Trump’s recent denial that he knows anything about Project 2025, a 900-page proposal by the Heritage Foundation think-tank for a radical reconfiguring of the US federal government to suit hard-line conservatives, has been ridiculed by one of his former Republican allies.

“This is preposterous if you look at the collaborators and the authors of this plan,” commented ex-Mike Pence adviser Olivia Troye on CNN.

“A lot of these people… served in Trump’s cabinet during his administration. There are people that I worked with. I sat in those policy meetings with them.”

Naming ex-Trump administration figures John McEntee, Stephen Miller, Ben Carson and Ken Cuccinelli, Troye added: “I think what this is telling us is that Donald Trump knows that what is written in this plan is so extreme that it is damaging to his possibility of getting elected, and that’s what he’s concerned about.”

Meanwhile, the eyes of the world will once more be on President Joe Biden as he hosts a Nato summit in Washington DC amid ongoing concerns about his fitness to contest the election and serve another term in office and fresh calls for him to quit the 2024 race.

Here’s Sheila Flynn on the MAGA firebrand finding herself in rare agreement with her political nemesis, Democrat Adam Frisch, regarding the commander-in-chief.

MAGA firebrand and Republican Rep Lauren Boebert loves to take aim at President Joe Biden – but the Democrat who nearly won her seat two years ago in the nation’s closest 2022 race is now also calling for him to withdraw from the race

CNN’s Lauren Fox says one Democratic lawmaker described a sense of “sadness” in the room as some members solidly made the case for Joe Biden to step aside.

They said it was sad “talking about someone