WASHINGTON – MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes included Project 2025’s proposed pornography ban in the “unhinged wish list” he criticized on his “All In” show last week.
The liberal-oriented commentator mention Some of the most controversial proposals from the conservative initiative, which leaders say are aimed at staffing a potential Donald Trump White House in January 2025. Project 2025 is led by the Heritage Foundation and many of its leaders are former Trump associates.
As XBIZ reported, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee attempted to distance himself from Project 2025 in a post on his social media platform Truth Social later in the week.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote. “I have no idea who is behind that. I don’t agree with some of the things they say and some of the things they say are absolutely ridiculous and horrible. Whatever they do, I wish them the best of luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
Last month, the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) warned the adult industry and sex workers about Project 2025, calling it “an aggressive and dangerous right-wing policy proposal that could have serious consequences for our industry and community.”
Hayes’ inclusion of the proposed porn ban is newsworthy because many of the liberal and Democratic politicians and commentators criticizing Project 2025’s proposals have notably left it off their list of things they object to.
After listing Project 2025’s proposed crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, access to sexual health, so-called “woke” activism and abortion rights, Hayes added: “And get this, I don’t know that people know this, but people should say, ‘Pornography should be banned. The people who produce and distribute it should be jailed.”
Hayes then stared at the camera and blinked in disbelief, adding, “America, 2024.”
MSNBC foregrounded the indictment of the porn ban in the episode’s caption, quoting Hayes’ description of Project 2025 as “the wish list of a bunch of fringe, far-right policy proposals that I think a lot of voters would be really horrified to read.” .’
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The Washington Post published an article in November claiming that much of the planning for a second Trump term “has been unofficially outsourced to a partnership of right-wing think tanks in Washington. Called “Project 2025,” the group is “developing a plan, which includes draft decisions, that would deploy the military domestically under the Insurrection Act,” according to a person involved in these conversations and internal communications seen by the newspaper assessed.