Donald Trump now has the most detailed policy platform of his political career -- and it's largely the work of two people you've never heard of.
Trump campaign speechwriters #Vince#Haley and #Ross#Worthington are the masterminds behind most of Trump's policy statements. The two worked under Stephen #Miller in the Trump White House.
Haley and Worthington write the first drafts of scripts Trump uses to record policy videos as well as the text on how a second Trump administration would handle issues from education to energy and immigration.
Those videos and corresponding text on his website go into far more detail than Trump, who famously has little interest in policy, does on the stump.
Trump often goes off-script in his speeches and spends just 11% of the time talking about his policy plans, an Axios analysis found.
His campaign aides frequently say that he is the most gifted politician and ultimately decides how to message on the issues.
Trump and his team are also in frequent communication with a constellation of figures on policy ideas, including Trump's former trade representative Robert #Lighthizer and former White House budget director Russell #Vought, WSJ reported.
The Stephen Miller connection:
Haley and Worthington worked under Miller in the White House speechwriting office for four years, co-managing the speechwriting shop.
"Miller would always go over speech drafts" including both official and political speeches that Haley and Worthington wrote, Worthington told Jan. 6 committee investigators in February 2022 after being subpoenaed.
Though they have next to no public presence, they are known to be very chatty on the campaign's daily internal comms call.
While Miller is not technically on the campaign, his relationship with his former subordinates and his direct line to Trump allow him to maintain a consequential role in shaping a potential Trump second term.
Between the lines: Both men have deep ties to former House Speaker Newt #Gingrich.
Haley, a lawyer by training, served as policy director and campaign manager for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign. They co-authored several books together and Haley was an associate producer on Gingrich's documentary Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny.
Worthington was deputy communications director for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign and later authored a book with Gingrich.
Reading about the recent SMTP and SSH vulnerabilities, I get the impression that open source projects, proprietary vendors and government agencies such as @certbund don't know how to talk to each other. They should at least have something like a red phone.
Please comment here if you have a constructive idea on how to improve the situation! #SECconsulting seems to assume that everyone uses #VINCE, a CMU service I had never heard of.
Lecturencours : et puisque je parle de Lewis Trondheim, un petit mot sur le dernier album de la série Donjon Antipodes + : « Changement de programme ».
Je le trouve aussi con que les deux précédents (« alors pourquoi tu l’as lu ? » me demanderez-vous. Je vous laisse répondre.) Ça tape et ça cogne. Je ne suis clairement pas la cible de cette série là - alors que j’adore les Donjon. J’ai l’impression que les scénaristes (Sfar et Trondheim) ont cédé à la facilité, tandis que j’ai dû revenir plusieurs pages en arrière pour comprendre que Vince (le dessinateur) avait dessiné un pilote de robot éjecté pour être remplacé par notre héros : c’était franchement pas clair : il était caché en bas à droite de la case…
Bref, une sensation de grand n’importe quoi, à l’image de la dernière planche de l’album. (Je ne vous fais pas de spoiler, mais il me semble évident que les auteurs de cet album savent qu’ils font de la m… et quel destin réserver à leur série.)
After defying expectations twice, Vince Gilligan is going for a hat trick. The creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul satisfied fans with two spectacular shows, put Albuquerque on the crime series map, and rarely, if ever, made a mistake. With his next show, he’s going back to his roots....
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After defying expectations twice, Vince Gilligan is going for a hat trick. The creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul satisfied fans with two spectacular shows, put Albuquerque on the crime series map, and rarely, if ever, made a mistake. With his next show, he’s going back to his roots....