If he didn’t want her, he could have chosen to say silent…but he didn’t.
He owns her along with Steve Mnuchin, Bill Barr, Mike Pence, Mick Mulvaney, Jim Mattis, Cliff Sims, John Bolton, Christopher Wray, Gen Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, Deborah Brix, Anthony Scaramucci, John Kelly, Michael Cohen, Gen H.R McMaster, Rex Tillerson, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ty Cobb, Andrew McCabe, Mark Meadows etc. etc.
Trump was a businessman, so he didn’t run around in the depths of political circles or the swamp, so he didn’t know many of his appointments personally.
Trump himself has said, during several rallies, that he made mistakes in selecting people for positions, because he asked people he thought were experts for names, and were given names of people, as it turns out, the experts wanted.
Many of the positions Trump has to fill, needs senate confirmation, so many of his possible choices get eliminated by what mcconnell wants.
Trump has been burned by many of the selections, and he’s now familiar with how the swamp works, and will be much better with choices now, but needs to be elected.