🧵Donald Trump is denying any ties to Project 2025—an extremist policy agenda masquerading as a traditional conservative platform. Trump has realized that this is a liability for him with voters, but the cat’s out of the bag. As someone who worked with these people when they first attempted to start implementing some of these policies, here’s a reminder of who the authors are behind Project 2025: 2. The key directors & contributors on Project 2025 are from the Trump Admin & they include:
•Paul Dans-Director of Project 2025: fmr Chief of Staff at the Office of Personnel Management
•Spencer Chretien-Associate Director of Project 2025: fmr special assistant to President Trump
•John McEntee-fmr Director of Presidential Personnel Office
•Russell Vought-fmr Director of OMB
•Chris Miller-(should need no introduction given his involvement on Jan 6) fmr acting Secretary of Defense

Jan. 6 was one of the worst national security failures since Sept. 11. The January 6th report effectively exposes Trump; however, the national security section (stuck in the appendix) is devoid of any specific recommendations/conclusions & shockingly disappointing. All the intel was there. What happened? There was a failure to act on it by DHS & the entire homeland security apparatus. This is a missed opportunity to fix the homeland enterprise & prevent this from happening again. None of this is really addressed in the January 6th report.

🧵1of5:The latest reporting on these emails & testimonies on the extent to which former Trump WH officials interfered with CDC guidances & the Covid19 pandemic response is the truth. Many of us witnessed this first hand & it should never be forgotten...
politico.com/news/2021/11/1… (2of4):There was not a single aspect of the CDC's Covid19 pandemic response that these former Trump Admin officials didn't politicize or obstruct such as: guidance on meatpacking facilities/churches/cruise ships/schools--to even changing the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reports..

1:A year ago today-my life & career would be forever changed when I made the decision to speak out publicly as someone who served in the Trump White House. Taking on a vindictive man, his inner circle & Trumpism isn’t easy but choosing country over party matters most still today.

https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/1306684848908754945

2:Over the past year, many of the atrocities & horrifying stories that happened during the Trump Admin. have surfaced. We need to remember that Trumpism is far from being defeated. It continues to pose a grave danger to our country & our democracy as exhibited esp on Jan 6.

🧵There were cabinet mtgs about this during the Trump Admin where Stephen Miller would peddle his racist hysteria about Iraq & Afghanistan. He & his enablers across gov’t would undermine anyone who worked on solving the SIV issue by devastating the system at DHS & State.(1/7) I tracked this issue personally in my role during my WH tenure. Pence was fully aware of the problem. We got nowhere on it because Trump/S. Miller had watchdogs in place at DOJ, DHS, State & security agencies that made an already cumbersome SIV process even more challenging.(2/7)

I resigned from my position as Homeland Security & Covid TF advisor to Mike Pence a year ago this week for a number of reasons, but the main one being b/c I cared about protecting the lives of Americans. I'll undoubtedly get more threats for this 🧵but I need to say it. (1/8) The messengers that turned fighting the #COVID19 pandemic into a politically divisive issue in 2020 were putting your lives at risk on a daily basis. Unfortunately, these voices & this trend continues still today. It's hurting our ability to overcome this pandemic. (2/8)

If people want to criticize & talk about “border crisis” photo ops—let’s all remember that trip with former Vice President Pence & the smug Republican Senators (Hawley, Graham, etc) who stood staring at the detained immigrants like they were caged animals. (1of4) I grew up on the El Paso border. The city has shouldered a lot of the effects of the Trump Admin’s abhorrent anti-immigration efforts to include child separation, the asylum deals they cut & a mass shooting by a domestic terrorist espousing a white supremacy manifesto…(2of4)

1of4:Let me be clear having served as fmr VP @Mike_Pence’s Homeland Security Advisor:This opening #ImpeachmentTrial salvo by Trump’s defense lawyers is full of bald faced lies-I was in the WH the day Trump orchestrated a violent response to peaceful protestors in Lafayette Sq... 2of4:#Trump used a violent response to peaceful protestors for a law & order campaign moment. He made calculated efforts to play up the Antifa/Law & Order narratives last summer. There were WH mtgs where it was discussed how violence/show of force would help his re-election...

#Venezuela A thread from me, a former #WhiteHouse #NationalSecurity staffer:(1 of 7)
This article from #Florida- @MiamiHerald - miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo… miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo… 🇻🇪... 2. As a Latina, Intelligence Officer & really just someone with common sense who was in the #WhiteHouse, watching @realDonaldTrump’s complete mismanagement & failure on this #Venezuela nation building attempt, first hand, has been upsetting from day one.