Project 2025 architect says quiet part out loud with ominous threat of political violence

03 July 2024

Kevin Roberts — the president of the far-right Heritage Foundation — recently hinted at violence against the American left, should former President Donald Trump win back the White House and the organization's Project 2025 blueprint become reality.

In a recent interview with pro-Trump network Real America's Voice, Roberts praised the Supreme Court of the United States' (SCOTUS) recent ruling allowing presidents to have absolute broad criminal immunity for official acts. He then offered it was just the first phase of his group's plans to drastically reshape the country.

"We ought to be really encouraged by what happened yesterday," Roberts said, sharing Alexander Hamilton's viewpoint that there ought to be a "vigorous executive." The Daily Beast reported that he suggested there could be violent repercussions against the American left if they try to stop the far-right's power grab.

"In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back," Roberts said. "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be."

Heritage's Project 2025 revolves around the rapid expansion of executive power, focused on an obscure executive order known as "Schedule F" which would change the number of presidential appointees from roughly 5,000 people to more than 54,000. These appointees would then be scattered throughout federal agencies and strategically placed in roles allowing them to craft and shape policy. Heritage has already been busy pre-screening tens of thousands of potential government employees to have in place by January 20, 2025 should Trump win the election in November.

"The Presidential Personnel Database will be of extraordinary value for the 47th president because we are doing a lot of the incoming administration’s most important work ahead of time," Project 2025 senior advisor John McEntee — who was director of the Presidential Personnel Office in Trump's White House — said in 2023.

When combining Project 2025's plans to overhaul the federal civil service with its 920-page policy blueprint, Trump – or any Republican president — would have all the tools necessary to accomplish far-right political objectives with little interference from Congress. And after SCOTUS' immunity ruling on Monday, there would be little the courts could do to check executive power.

On Monday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that presidents are immune from prosecution for all official acts, though it left discretion to the lower courts as to what constitutes an official act. The decision may also impact Trump's May conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, with Judge Juan Merchan pushing back Trump's sentencing date to September to allow for time to consider how the decision will factor into what — if any — sentence Trump receives.

Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's four-count indictment of Trump in response the the January 6, 2021 effort to stop Congress' certification of Electoral College results may now be a dead letter, given that Trump's alleged crimes took place before he left office. And two of the four counts for obstructing an official proceeding may also be impacted by a separate Supreme Court decision striking those charges for a separate defendant.

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