To start, Heritage Foundation President Kevin D. Roberts and co-founder Edwin J. Feulner met Trump in person. Roberts, who wrote the foreword for Project 2025, took a private flight with Trump to the Heritage Foundation Conference in April 2022.
During Trump’s keynote speech at the conference, he said of Roberts: “I know what he did and where he came from, and he will be excellent.”
Additionally, more than half of Project 2025’s 307 authors and editors had direct ties to the ex-president, either working in his administration but also serving on his campaign and transition team, according to the New York Times.
Of the 267 additional contributors to Project 2025, 144 were found to have worked in Trump’s administration, campaign and transition team.