Trump has a lengthy record of appointing, nominating, and embracing Deep Staters:
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.
That’s total crap. He most certainly did NOT have free reign over appointees.