Project 2025 mastermind sues for list of all drugs delivered on Biden’s Air Force One

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A conservative think tank is suing the federal government over access to records it says could provide a "gotcha" moment about President Joe Biden’s health.

A lawsuit brought by the Heritage Foundation — which is behind the hard-right plan for Trump’s second term called "Project 2025″ — seeks a list of "all drugs offered on all planes designated with the call sign 'Air Force One,' ” from January 20, 2021, the day of Biden’s inauguration.

Project 2025 is page 922 The "executive order" is intended as a blueprint for the incoming Trump administration to dramatically expand the president’s powers, cut funding for climate research , to remove LGBTQ protections, prosecute "anti-white racism," decriminalize abortion, and replace. tens of thousands of federal employees with MAGA loyalists.

The Legacy dress available by The Independent The federal lawsuit filed on July 9 in Washington, DC by Mike Howell, a former Trump administration official and director of the organization’s "Surveillance Project," which Heritage says it aims to "expose" what should be "participation in the Biden White House" of the federal government. (Howell recent news (for allegedly targeting a group of hackers made up of so-called furries, calling them "filthy renegades" in a series of leaks.)

In the lawsuit, Heritage says that "the types of drugs administered on Air Force One are in the public interest because questions about the president’s mental and physical fitness have been spread in the media." media and public interest following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Report and the June 27 presidential debate."

Biden turned his back on his performance in the first debate of the campaign season, which prompted calls from prominent Democrats for the 81-year-old president to step aside from younger candidates. Biden began promising to stay in the race.

Hur’s report, which was written after an investigation into Biden’s alleged neglect of sensitive government documents after his term as vice president, found no evidence of wrongdoing. crime. At the same time, he described Biden as "an old man with no memory." (This character has been hotly contested by Biden and his surrogates.)

In February, Heritage attempted to release medical records from Air Force One by submitting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, noting that, in the past, "the drugs were released without much oversight in the White House." The link provided as supporting evidence leads CNN article from January 2024 summarizes the Department of Defense (DoD) REPORT published a month that investigated the work of the White House Medical Unit between 2017 and 2019, when Trump was in office.

The DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG) launched the investigation following allegations that "a senior military officer assigned to the White House Medical Center engaged in medical malpractice," said the lightly published report. Although many names are obscure, Dr. Ronny Jackson, US Navy admiral, former head of the White House medical department, and Trump’s personal physician, has been heavily scrutinized. in the 2021 OIG report that called for it but free distribution of drugs to workers without a prescription. Jackson, a Republican, was later elected to Congress.

Trump personally added fuel to the fire, saying, without evidence, that Biden was "higher than a kite” when he delivered the State of the Union speech earlier this year, and speculated that the president was involved in cocaine and anabolic steroids to enhance his performance.

In April, the Air Force denied Heritage’s FOIA request and transferred it to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which marked it as closed, according to the lawsuit.

"Defendant’s failure to conduct a search of the records violates FOIA, DOD, and OMB regulations," Legacy’s lawsuit said, asking the court to order the government to comply with its request under 20 days.

"Plaintiffs are not being provided information to which they are legally entitled," and "irreparable harm will continue if defendants are not required to comply with the law," the lawsuit concluded.

Although at least 140 people have served under Trump during his tenure, including six of his cabinet secretaries, four of his ambassadors, and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. in Project 2025, Trump tried to distance himself from it. , I don’t know anything about Project 2025.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Messages left Wednesday for the Heritage Foundation and its attorneys went unanswered.