{"id":7742,"date":"2023-09-06T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/business\/donald-trump-ally-rails-at-trojan-horse-republican-rivals\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:06:33","slug":"donald-trump-ally-rails-at-trojan-horse-republican-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=7742","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump ally rails at \u2018Trojan horse\u2019 Republican rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Receive free US politics &amp; policy updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>We\u2019ll send you a <i>myFT Daily Digest<\/i> email rounding up the latest<!-- --> <!-- -->US politics &amp; policy<!-- --> news every morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=31d4a282-638c-4af1-a18a-a681a61966aa&amp;concept-id=6f7d5d90-ac15-41fe-9e31-e69b42a013c6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div data-attribute=\"article-content-body\">\n<p>An internal battle has broken out among rival Republican groups over staffing of a possible second Trump administration, with one loyalist of the former US president accusing another ally of being a \u201cTrojan horse\u201d for the \u201cestablishment\u201d to control his agenda. <\/p>\n<p>Two rightwing think-tanks \u2014 the Heritage Foundation and America First Policy Institute \u2014 have each launched projects to influence the staffing of thousands of government positions following the 2024 election in the hopes of another Republican White House.<\/p>\n<p>But the competition for influence turned nasty on Tuesday, when James Bacon, a senior adviser at Heritage, criticised AFPI and warned that more traditional conservatives would be excluded from a future Republican administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that all the America Last Republicans are afraid of being cut out of the next Administration. They should be,\u201d Bacon wrote in an email to AFPI obtained by the Financial Times. <\/p>\n<p>Bacon, who worked as a young staffer in Donald Trump\u2019s presidential personnel office, added that the AFPI was a \u201cTrojan Horse by which the establishment can retake control of personnel\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bacon\u2019s comments reflect a battle for control of the Republican party being waged by traditional conservatives and supporters of Trump, who remains the runaway leader in the GOP primary race despite criminal charges against him relating to his efforts to subvert the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions between the two groups came as former vice-president Mike Pence, a rival of Trump in the primary, said in a New Hampshire speech on Wednesday afternoon that it was time for the party to choose between populism and traditional conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I ask my fellow Republicans this: in the days to come, will we be the party of conservatism or will our party follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles?\u201d he said, according to prepared remarks. <\/p>\n<p>He also sought to portray Trump\u2019s populism as similar to progressive Democrats on foreign policy and economic matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, along with his populist followers and imitators \u2014 some of whom are also seeking the Republican presidential nomination \u2014 often sound like an echo of the progressive they would replace in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacon sent his email to Doug Hoelscher, a top AFPI official, after Hoelscher invited guests to attend a star-studded event on September 20 featuring Trump\u2019s former acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf and former interior secretary David Bernhardt. Bacon viewed AFPI\u2019s work as a copy of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Project 2025, which is creating an online database of potential hires and a training academy for future political appointees. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAFPI is ripping off the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Presidential Transition Project, down to the name, language, and logo, without providing any of the substance,\u201d Bacon wrote in his emailed response to the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Rollins, head of the AFPI, responded that she and Heritage\u2019s president Kevin Roberts were \u201cfully aligned\u201d on transition preparedness. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need all America First organisations involved because reining in the administrative state is too big a task for one organisation or even two,\u201d she said. \u201cClearly, this one individual is not fully informed on our efforts, which is why he was invited in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said in a statement that he and Rollins were \u201clongtime friends\u201d and that he was grateful that AFPI was \u201calongside us in this critical moment\u201d, adding that the conservative movement needed to unify \u201cto ensure the next president is prepared to dismantle the administrative state on day one\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/31d4a282-638c-4af1-a18a-a681a61966aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receive free US politics &amp; policy updates We\u2019ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US politics &amp; policy news every morning. 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