Paul Dans, the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, is stepping down. Democrats and the legacy media have made false claims about the conservative blueprint for how former President Donald Trump could govern if he were to win back the White House — though Trump himself had nothing to do with the project.

“Under Paul Dans’ leadership, Project 2025 has completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it to the people,” said Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “This tool was built for any future administration to use.”

Roberts said that Dans built the project from scratch over a period of two years and that the plan was always to have the final version of the project completed after the Republicans and Democrats each held their respective conventions this summer.

Roberts said that Dans “will be departing the team and moving up to the front where the fight remains” and that the organization was “extremely grateful for his and everyone’s work on Project 2025 and dedication to saving America.”

“Project 2025 will continue our efforts to build a personnel apparatus for policymakers of all levels—federal, state, and local,” Roberts concluded. “I look forward to leading this team to continued success.”

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Democrats have falsely tied Trump to the project, even though Trump has repeatedly disavowed it, and have used it as a cudgel against his campaign.

“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a statement.

“Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will not end well for you,” the statement concluded.

“Full House” star Jodie Sweetin defended the drag queen Last Supper parody at the Paris Olympics after her fellow costar Candace Cameron Bure slammed it as “disgusting.”

During the opening ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, a scene modeled after The Last Supper opened with an obese woman wearing an aureole as Jesus surrounded by drag queens as the Apostles, a decapitated head representing Marie Antoinette of the French Revolution, and drag queens dancing around children.

“Tell me you don’t know about art or history,” Sweetin wrote in a July 29 Instagram Story per E! News, “without TELLING me you don’t know about art or history.”

Her post also included a video that started circulating online after Christians blasted the offensive scene, claiming that it wasn’t religious but inspired by the ancient Greek God Dionysus, who represents “feasting, festivity and ritual theater.”

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Sweetin’s post comes one day after “Fuller House” star Candace Cameron Bure took to Instagram to blast the anti-Christian scene, as previously reported.

“I love the Olympic Games,” Bure said, mentioning that her husband Valeri Bure, a retired professional hockey player, and several other family members, were Olympic competitors.

“The Olympic Games have always brought me so much joy. It’s the best of the best athletes in the world competing for the title,” she added.

“So to watch such an incredible and wonderful event that’s gonna take place over the next two weeks and see the opening ceremonies completely blaspheme and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper was disgusting,” Bure continued. “And it made me so sad. And someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad. You should be mad about it.’ And I’m like, ‘Trust me. It makes me mad.’ But I’m more sad, because I’m sad for souls.”

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She also mentioned in her post that some followers claimed the opening ceremonies were not mocking Da Vinci’s famous “Last Supper” painting, but said she’s “not buying it” and she doesn’t “see how [Dionysus] relates to unifying the world through competitive sports and [is] acceptable for children to watch.”

The Paris Olympics admitted on Saturday the blasphemous scene was inspired by da Vinci’s famous mural, then tried to walk it back on Monday, the New York Post reported.

Following the backlash against the Olympics, Anne Descamps, a spokesperson for the Paris Olympics, said at a press conference, “If people have taken any offense we are really sorry.”

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. (The opening ceremony) tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Descamps told reporters, via Reuters. “We believe this ambition was achieved.”

Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.