RealClear Politics is reporting that Paul Dans, the erstwhile Director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, did not actually resign as was reported back in July — he was instead fired for his overbearing attitude toward colleagues and professional misconduct:
Dans joined the initiative with grand ambitions of gathering the vast constellation of disparate conservative groups together around “a deep consensus on issues.” He left persona non grata after a two-year tenure defined by public feuds with the Trump campaign and a concentrated effort by Democrats to make Project 2025 into an election year liability for Republicans.
But political controversy was not the cause of his departure, as was previously reported. Dans was instead fired by Heritage after an investigation found repeated incidents of professional misconduct and mistreatment of colleagues. The relationship has since soured.
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Dans often directed his ire at women in particular, according to multiple sources who described a pattern of exhibiting anger that boiled over in July at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
A meeting among Heritage Foundation officials there went off the rails when Dans began berating and swearing at colleagues for what he considered their poor performance. The tense encounter ended when Heritage President Kevin Roberts intervened to warn Dans the personal attacks were unacceptable.
This is kind of rich, coming from the person who actually bragged to others that he once killed a neighbor’s dog with a shovel just for barking too much.
According to Dans, “I was made a scapegoat by The Heritage Foundation to cover up for their own mishandling of the public relations fiasco over Project 2025,” he said in an email to RCP. “The statements that you have provided to me are false and it appears that the Heritage Foundation continues to trash my good name and professional reputation for their benefit.”
Seriously, dude — you honestly think you have any sort of ‘good name’ or ‘professional reputation’ left at this point after assembling your blueprint for fascism bs? And trying to extort a $3.5 million severance package from your employer when you’ve been fired for cause?
