I agree. He had - or has - an odd sense of who he hires only to find them backstabbers. Politically naive perhaps?
Politically naive perhaps?
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OR
showing the public the depth of the swamp? ..
“You have to Show them..”
Remember that whoever he put forward would have to be approved of by the Senate. McConnell worked against him all the time. I doubt these people were his first picks so he got stuck with them.