Leaked documents reveal that the Australian ambassador to the US was scheduled to receive a briefing on Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a potential second Trump administration, prior to the 2020 election.
Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 before the election, but documents show the Australian ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd , was due to have a briefing with its backers. The Heritage Foundation, which cast Project 2025 as a playbook for Donald Trump ’s second presidential term, was scheduled to brief Australian ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd , on the manifesto months before last year’s election, documents reveal.
The Heritage Foundation was due to be hosted at the Australian embassy in Washington early last year to present its 2025 presidential transition project, which features a detailed conservative blueprint to overhaul US democracy. A run-sheet for the 8 February event was included in correspondence released under freedom of information laws, which also revealed Australian officials discussed arranging meetings for a top Heritage Foundation adviser during his visit to Australia in June. The documents show that Project 2025 was being treated seriously in Canberra and show the effort Rudd was making to build ties with conservative figures who could play a role in a second Trump administration. Project 2025 became a major US election issue after Democrats began describing it as Trump’s secret agenda for a second term in the Oval Office. The document includes proposals to dramatically expand presidential power and make it easier to replace civil servants with political appointees, restrict access to abortion pills, reverse Biden-era climate policies, ban pornography and enforce mass deportations. Trump publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 and claimed he never read the document despite personal links to many of its key contributor
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