WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative group behind Project 2025, told CNN that Donald Trump’s infamous interactions with porn stars do not disqualify the presumptive Republican nominee from carrying out their plan to ban the entire production and distribution of adult content. criminalize.
“We understand that Our Lord works with imperfect instruments, including us,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told CNN last week. “While it may seem like a contradiction at first, if he embraces it, it can make him a more powerful messenger overall.”
The quote is part of a lengthy report from CNN’s Steve Contorno on Trump’s attitude toward his staunch anti-porn allies and supporters, in the context of the current trial over the source of the funds he allegedly used to conceal his sexual encounter with an adult performer. Stormy Daniels.
“If some of the former president’s allies have their way,” Contorno wrote, “a second Trump term would put that industry in dire straits — and possibly its actors and producers behind bars.”
The CNN report also quotes fervent second-generation anti-porn crusader Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, who thinks a second Trump administration would be “a very good opportunity” to embrace their agenda.
As XBIZ reported, Schilling has boasted for years that his group is behind the current Republican-led book ban movement, and that his goal has been to remove what he calls “pornography” from libraries.
Last July, Schilling also took credit for the current wave of age verification laws passed by several states in recent months.
And in September, he told a right-wing site that the ultimate goal of state age verification laws is to create a private right of action so that parents can directly sue online companies if their children access adult content. He has admitted that state laws are experiments so that the next Republican U.S. attorney general can prosecute anyone who uploads adult content that minors can access.
Roberts of the Heritage Foundation told CNN that he has not discussed the topic of a porn ban directly with Trump, “but he has spoken to the campaign and said there is agreement among those who influence policy, including Ben Carson, the former Minister of Housing. and urban development.”
Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk, the article notes, “has also made reducing pornography a recurring focus of his popular podcast.”
“Without being presumptuous to the president’s will, there will at least be conversations” about a porn ban “that is a priority that we can address,” Roberts added.
A Trump campaign spokesman tried to downplay to CNN the role of Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 and American Principle Projects in a future Trump administration by citing an earlier statement from its top advisers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles.
“Let’s be very specific here: Unless a message comes directly from President Trump or an authorized member of his campaign team, no aspect of future presidential staffing or policy announcements should be considered official,” LaCivita and Wiles said.
Earlier this month, John McEntee, senior advisor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and a former key figure in the first Trump administration, predicted an eventual outright ban on pornography, claiming that once it takes effect, “this country will prosper.”
McEntee told a podcaster that pornography is “the elephant in the room that is a stain not only on society but on the entire dating culture”
“Every time America bans that, which it will ever do, everyone will be much better off,” the Project 2025 senior adviser proclaimed.
The introduction to Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint document declares that pornography “does not claim First Amendment protection” and should be banned.
Main image: President Donald Trump delivers the keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club Meeting, October 2017 (Photo: White House)