Donald Trump is probably fuming about this interview with former Project 2025 director Paul Dans.

One of the architects of the conservative Project 2025 manifesto demonstrated on CNN Monday the many ways in which Donald Trump is tied to the project.

Speaking to Kaitlin Collins on The Source, the project’s former director, Paul Dans, admitted that he’s visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate several times and has spoken with Trump’s campaign staff there, including the campaign’s co-chair Susie Wiles.

  • @Spitzspot
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    To the Christians, you can just write in “Jesus” if your conscience bothers you about voting for a convicted felon.

    • Random123
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      Youre too late, the republicans already plastered jesus all around their campaign. Its all it took to get their votes apparently

    • finley
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      2 months ago

      reminder: Jesus was also a convicted criminal

        • TheLowestStone
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          Trump wasn’t convicted of rape either. He’s a rapist, just not a convicted one.

          • @eguidarelli@lemmy.world
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            https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

            To clarify, he was found liable for sexual assault, missing NY states legal definition of rape but those sexual assault actions should still be understood as rape in common language.

            The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.

            He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.

            Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”

            The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”

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            technically he was adjudicated as a rapist (or, in NY, sexual assault since he didn’t use his penis) in a civil case. in more common terms, it has been declared - legally - to be true, even though he wasn’t charged with or convicted of the crime of rape/sexual assault.

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          is Jesus on the ballot? first i’ve heard of this… don’t candidates have to be alive and also exist?