Trump's D.C. policy shop implodes due to neglect and nonpayment

Perhaps it should come as no surprise from a candidate who consults himself and knows more than the generals do that Donald Trump's policy shop was a house of cards. But whatever once existed as a conduit for imparting actual information to Trump has apparently collapsed on itself in the wake of the GOP convention. Josh Rogin reports:

The last straw for some came in early August, when the Washington policy shop held two marathon work sessions designed to plan out how to get Trump ready for the policy portions of the upcoming presidential debates. The Washington policy team came up with detailed plans about who would brief Trump on specific policy topics over the course of several weeks.

But after [Rick] Dearborn worked his staff overtime to get the recommendations, the campaign leadership decided to go in a different direction. “The New York office realized that their candidate would not be receptive to that level of intense preparation,” one former adviser said.

Not receptive to that level of intense preparation? Perhaps they should have let Trump know that he wouldn't be able to use a teleprompter during the debates. Anyway, true to form, Trump also stiffed the policy team, which apparently didn't help with morale.