Leaked Videos Show Project 2025’s Architect Calling for a MAGA Takeover of the Federal Government

ProPublica has unearthed videos of Russell Vought laying out plans for a scorched-earth second -term Trump agenda.

Vought is probably the most powerful Christian nationalist bureaucrat in the country.

He served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump and has spent the past four years commandeering the Center for Renewing America .

Vought wants to use the same jury-rigged model of imperial presidential authority to quash domestic dissent writ large.

In a 2023 speech before the Center for Renewing America , Vought argued that, in order to pull together post-hoc rationalizations for the mobilization of a federal MAGA thought police, it’s necessary to create a “shadow” Office of Legal Counsel .

Vought also relishes the idea of placing federal bureaucrats “in trauma”.

In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot.

The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win.

Vought sees the stakes as something far greater and more cosmic than a plum Oval Office gig.