'I Took A Bullet For Democracy': Trump Refutes 'Extremist' Accusations, Denounces Project 2025
At a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday, former President Trump spoke about Project 2025, which is led by former Trump Administration members.
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00:00And, you know, the other side is going around trying to make me sound extreme, like I'm
00:06an extremist.
00:08I'm not.
00:09I'm a person with great common sense.
00:11I'm not an extremist at all.
00:16Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25.
00:23And I don't even know — I mean, some of them, I know who they are.
00:26But they're very, very conservative.
00:28It's like you have — they're sort of the opposite of the radical left, okay?
00:32You have the radical left, and you have the radical right.
00:35And they come up with this.
00:36I don't know what the hell it is.
00:37It's Project 25.
00:39He's involved in Project — and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme.
00:44I mean, they're seriously extreme.
00:46But I don't know anything about it.
00:48I don't want to know anything about it.
00:50But what they do is misinformation and disinformation, and they keep saying, he's a threat to democracy.
00:56I'm saying, what the hell did I do for democracy?
00:59Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.
01:01What did I do against democracy?
01:02Crazy.