Heritage and Trump are now backpedaling so fast they are not going to be able to do their normal spin. Trump is project 2025 and project 2025 and the heritage foundation are Trump. Sure appears to be open coordination between the Trump campaign and Heritage.
During the 2016 campaign Trump appeared to eschew the conservative movement (Kochs, etc) but when he got to Washington he realized there was no one else there - they're the only permanent apparat who know how to do things
With both candidates, the question is who they've surrounded themselves with. T is surrounding himself with a bunch of 2025 sociopaths. His disclaimers mean nothing.