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DESCRIPTION:INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM TALK\n\nThe Shadow President: Investigation into 
 Russell Vought\n\nA conversation about ProPublica’s yearlong 
 investigation into Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect and Trump 
 budget guru.\n\nFrom the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the 
 ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for 
 Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that 
 insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in 
 chief.”\n\nSPEAKERS: Andy Kroll, ProPublica reporter and Nick Varchaver, 
 ProPublica senior editor\n\nNov 5, 2025 at 1 PM - 2 PM PT (4 PM - 5 PM 
 ET)\n\nRSVP to speaker talk: 
 https://events.propublica.org/the-shadow-president\n\nWATCH Short Doc w/ 
 Andy Kroll, ProPublica: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LuV82l0vs\n\nFollow ProPublica on 
 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.org\n\n\nRussell Vought is 
 perhaps the most important figure in the Trump administration that you may 
 not have heard of — at least, not until the recent government shutdown 
 elevated his profile. As the director of the White House Office of 
 Management and Budget, Vought has waged a quiet war to change the shape of 
 the U.S. government.\n\nRelying on an expansive theory of presidential 
 power and a willingness to test the rule of law, he has frozen vast sums of 
 federal spending, terminated tens of thousands of federal workers and, in a 
 few cases, brought entire agencies to a grinding halt. Most recently, 
 Vought has used the federal government shutdown as a pretext to fire 
 thousands more workers and pause or cancel billions in funding for blue 
 states.\n\nA portrait of Vought as the shadow president of Donald Trump’s 
 second term emerges in Andy Kroll’s profile, which is based on scores of 
 interviews with government officials and people who know Vought, as well as 
 thousands of pages of emails obtained through records requests and dozens 
 of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, 
 most of which have not been previously reported.\n\nBeyond Trump, Vought is 
 a driving force in the MAGA-infused Republican Party. He combines an 
 acknowledged Christian nationalist perspective with a belief in an 
 executive branch with sweeping powers.\n\nKroll’s reporting shows that 
 Vought, who declined to be interviewed, believes the U.S. has descended 
 into a “post-constitutional” order and that it will take a group of 
 “radical constitutionalists” to destroy the deep state and return power 
 to the presidency and, ultimately, the people. The ultimate radical 
 constitutionalist, in Vought’s view, is Trump himself, “a man who is so 
 uniquely positioned to serve this role, a man whose own interests perfectly 
 align with the interests of the country.”\n\n\nDuring this 
 editor-reporter conversation, we’ll walk attendees through what we found, 
 why it matters and how we reported it. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/19/18880791.php
SUMMARY:The Shadow President: Russell Vought- The Christian Nationalist Architect of Project 2025
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/19/18880791.php
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