Ex-Project 2025 Head Is Lashing Out Over ‘Violent Rhetoric’

The former director of the controversial right-wing policy playbook Project 2025 has slammed the Heritage Foundation’s president for his “violent rhetoric” — and urged GOP vice presidential pick J.D. Vance to distance himself from his former collaborator.

Paul Dans, who led the Heritage Foundation-published project until July and was behind some of its most radical plans, called out remarks from Kevin Roberts, the organization’s president, that appeared to threaten political violence.

“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” Dans told the the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric and bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that President Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”

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