Former President Donald Trump’s team is preparing a staffer blacklist, which includes those seen as disloyal and some figures associated with Project 2025.
Project 2025, an initiative by the conservative Heritage Foundation to put forward policy suggestions for a Republican administration and prepare staffers for it, has come under intense fire from Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. That criticism has resulted in Trump distancing himself from the project, having no direct involvement in it previously.
He took this distancing a step further after his team began blacklisting some figures associated with it, two former Trump officials familiar with the discussions told Politico.
Among the people blacklisted were some of those linked to Project 2025, some who resigned from Trump’s administration after the Jan. 6 riot, and others perceived as disloyal to…
