After a frenetic few days answering criticism of remarks during and after the GOP presidential debate about Fox News moderator
Megyn Kelly, and the departure of political adviser
Roger Stone, Donald Trump is going on a hiring spree and gearing up for the release of policy proposals.
"We’re getting the best" operatives, Trump tells
The Washington Post.
I’m going to come out with more positions. Look, I already have done that on many issues," he added, listing immigration, jobs, and trade negotiations with China and Japan.
The push comes after the weekend departure of Stone, who before leaving had been pressing for the release of policy specifics and more staff,
Politico reports.
"More than anything, they were just trying to clarify the smallish role that [Roger] Stone played in things and begin more outreach into the states after Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina,” one Trump campaign staffer tells Politico about hiring and policy plans.
Politico reports immigration, veterans, healthcare, the Second Amendment and the economy — all the subject of planned policy papers – were points covered by Stone in a memo prepared for Trump.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, declined to comment on whether or how the campaign’s policy papers would differ from Stone’s prepared materials.
Meanwhile, conservative economist Stephen Moore tells Politico that Trump is aiming to sit down with him next month, along with publisher and former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and fellow conservative economist Art Laffer to talk about economic policy.
"[We were] trying to channel some of that popular anger that’s out there about our tax system," Moore tells Politico.
On the staffing front, reports surfaced that top campaign staffers will travel to Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Iowa this week to bolster the operation’s political talent, Politico notes.
Stone’s departure came after another key staff loss — his associate,
Sam Nunberg, over racist posts made from his Facebook account in years past.
In an unrelated incident, the campaign also fired an Arizona operative last week over his own racially tinged Facebook posts, Politico reports.
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