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  “I know nothing about Project 2025. I 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.”

This is the logical fallacy that the convicted felon and former game show host used to distance himself from the playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals. How can you "disagree with some of the things they're saying" when you "know nothing" about it? Admittedly there are plenty of things that twice impeached former "president" knows nothing about, but that doesn't seem to keep him from talking about them, but to go on and say that he has no idea who is behind it? 

Right there on the Heritage Foundation's web page you'll see Spencer Chretien smiling out at you, with his resume just below, "From 2020-2021, Chretien was a Special Assistant to President Donald J. Trump and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel, helping to identify, recruit, and place hundreds of political appointees at all levels of government." 

This "Mandate For Leadership" proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with those who will be more willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president. Heritage Foundation president recently stated, "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." Meanwhile, the list of advisors for this special plan includes not fewer than twenty former members of the Trump administration. 

And yet he has "no idea who is behind it." Which might make Spencer Chretien a little sad, since he argued that it was "past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right." More friendly for the right, but certainly not more friendly to affordable health care, the Departments of Education and Homeland Security, affirmative action and DEI programs. Any "very stable genius" could take a moment or two to scan the web page to get just a whiff of what might be in store if there was a Republican president elected in 2024. Providing that that "very stable genius" could read. 

Or maybe we should simply take the orange wad of hate's word for it. But not knowing really shouldn't qualify as an excuse, should it?