Echoing stories from his time in the White House about aides having to edit briefings to bullet-point and mention his names repeatedly to keep his interest, Donald Trump’s campaign staff has implored the Republican National Committee to simplify the Party’s “textbook-long platforms” to short snippets, presumably so Trump can understand them, the Washington Post reports.
Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles apparently never actually read a textbook because the last policy platform released by the RNC in 2016 was just 60 pages long. “Publishing an unnecessarily verbose treatise will provide more fuel for our opponent’s fire of misinformation and misrepresentation to voters,” they wrote.
You may remember that in 2020, the Republicans had no policy platforms; instead, it released a statement saying every from 2016 still applied plus whatever Trump says, and then they literally attached it to the 2016 printout, without changing the date on the document.