Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump
only has one formal position paper, on immigration. He has little in the way of campaign staff, and still less in the way of campaign staff with campaign experience or high-level policy advisers formally associated with the campaign.
“A lot of what I’m doing is by instinct,” Mr. Trump said in one of several interviews. “I assimilate a lot of information…and I believe in being strategic.” Instead of surrounding himself with what he called “political hacks,” Mr. Trump said, “I don’t need an inner circle.” His rationale: In an “age of specialization, I am tapping phenomenal people in every field.”
Phenomenal people like Jack Jacobs, the retired Army colonel Trump cited as one of his go-to military advisers, only to have Jacobs say
he was not advising Trump and in fact had never talked about policy with him?
But don't worry, Trump will totally come up with a tax plan at some point, and possibly other positions outlined in more detail than whatever he blurts out on the stump.
And in the mean time, he has nothing to worry about attacks from his political opponents anyway, saying "I hope they attack me, because everybody who attacks me is doomed." If that's true, why even bother doing anything other than inviting people to attack him?