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.
The first #Impeachment in U.S. history was Andrew Johnson in 1865.
Congress didn't even THREATEN impeachment again until Nixon in '72.
#Gingrich weaponized Congress in '94 and hunted Bill Clinton until they got him to lie under oath about an affair to justify impeaching him. THAT was his big crime: Lying about an affair.
T**** committed FAR worse… TWICE… and they dismiss his crimes.
But Biden MAY have profited off his son's biz deal.
If Newt "I abandoned my cancer-stricken wife" #Gingrich thinks the #indictments against #Trump are going to guarantee his victory in #2024, then why is he so mad about them? Like everything related to the #RepublicanParty, it makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for more than 10 seconds.