There was never any validity to the claim that Trump “knew nothing,” about it. What and how much, I don’t know. But the authors were intentionally picked from his orbit and previous administration.

This was no secret at the time that Trump was denying it.

I’m hardly sure the point of writing this post, or even Axios reporting it, other than I suppose, somehow, there are people that genuinely don’t know how tightly coupled Project 2025 and a future Trump administration always were.