Trump Abandons Disavowal, Name-Checks Project 2025 While Threatening to Dismantle Federal Agencies (2025-10-02)

The New York Times reported that Trump name-checked Project 2025 while threatening to dismantle federal agencies, abandoning his prior disavowal entirely. His previous statements — I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I havent read it... I am not going to read it — were now openly contradicted by his own words. TIME followed on October 3 with Trump Is No Longer Denying Support for Project 2025. The shift completed the arc from denial to embrace, validating the months of investigative reporting that had documented the connections Trump had denied.