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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 the organization’s president Kevin Roberts earlier this summer 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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