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Biden: "Project 2025" was created just for Trump

Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of trying to hide his connections to the far-right political program "Project 2025", AP reports.

- The problem is that it is written for him, by those who are closest to him. "Project 2025" should terrify every American.

In a statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump writes that he knows nothing about "Project 2025" or who is behind it. He adds at the same time that he does not agree with some of the opinions in the program, and that he "wishes them all the best".

The program is written by the think tank Heritage Foundation of a number of allies of Trump. Its head, Kevin Roberts, came under fire after he said in a podcast with Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon that the United States is facing a "second revolution that will remain bloodless if the left allows it."

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Biden was claimed to be acutely ill: "100 percent false"

Several fake news stories about Joe Biden and his health spread during the debate about the president's age. AFP has reviewed the claim that Biden suffered a "medical emergency" aboard Air Force One on Friday and found it to be false.

The story, shared among others by Elon Musk and Republican Senator Mike Lee, is completely unsubstantiated and seems to be contradicted by the fact that shortly after the incident, Joe Biden was seen leaving the presidential plane, apparently fully healthy.

"100 percent false," writes Andrew Bates, press secretary in the White House, on X.

The fact checker Checkyourfact has in turn reviewed a video in which Joe Biden allegedly says that he might consider resigning for medical reasons. The video has been viewed over a million times in the past few days, and is not fake, but has been taken out of context.

In fact, Biden jokingly says that he would "develop some disease" as an excuse to resign if he had not been able to get along with Barack Obama during his time as his vice president. The video was filmed in 2020.
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Expert: "Project 2025" would make the US authoritarian

The 900-page "Project 2025" plan, developed by the Trump-linked think tank Heritage Foundation, includes, among other things, taking control of and dismantling federal institutions and replacing thousands of civil servants with political appointees if the Republicans win the election.

The US is already classified as a flawed democracy, says Merrick Tabor, US expert and political scientist at Stockholm University, to Svenska Yle.

- But what is proposed in "Project 2025" would make the USA no longer resemble a democracy at all.

Gwenaëlle Bauvois, professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki, says that what the plan proposes is an "authoritarian takeover". According to researchers who have analyzed it, it undermines the rule of law, civil liberties and the rights of women and sexual minorities, she continues.

Trump is "playing dumb" by claiming he is not involved, Bauvois continues.