In secretly recorded video, Project 2025 co-author says he’s drafted hundreds of executive orders for Trump | CNN Politics

Russell Vought is one of the key authors of Project 2025 , a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term.

Vought talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump .

The Center for Renewing America created fake websites and a fake LinkedIn profile to deceive Vought .

The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting , published a video of the meeting on Thursday .

Vought served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Trump .

After leaving office, Vought started the Center for Renewing America , a nonprofit that describes itself as the “tip of the America First spear.

The Center spun an elaborate fiction with a journalist and a paid actor posing as the brother and son-in-law of a reclusive New Mexico investor.

Vought says the group is drafting executive orders and policy playbooks ahead of the election.

Vought 's guiding principle, he said, was simple: What would Donald Trump do? “We were always going off of, if Donald Trump was head of this agency, what would he do with it?” Vought said.

He outlined views on religion and race that seem more extreme than those of Trump .