Trump is a practical person and using obviously insincere people in business is factored in the choice equation as necessary or useful etc. As the wanton women say, flattery will get you anywhere. That is not necessarily a good thing for them and can be fun and useful when used in reverse. Unassailable convictions are not necessarily permanent. Witness the solid politicians who have shortchanged their voters for personal gain.
“Unassailable convictions are not necessarily permanent.”
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Agree with you on that point. It is OK to alter your views now and then as things evolve, but people of substance often have strong and enduring principles and values that they live by and which serve as a moral and ethical foundation for them.
The problem with the DC crowd is they have huge egos that drive them and pliable ‘convictions’ that they can bend to their own self-interest.
Trump needs to weed out those opportunists as ultimately they will turn against him.