> Barr........a frigging MAJOR disappointment. <
Among Trump’s major appointments only Mike Pompeo at State seems to have worked out. I find the whole thing very puzzling.
Take, for example, John Bolton. Trump freely appointed Bolton National Security Advisor. Then later Trump called him “one of the dumbest people in Washington”.
I just can’t square that circle.
Apparently Bolton never med a soldier he didn’t want to send to his death overseas in a war.
It's perplexing. Pres. Trump is a very, very smart man, and historically has been very hard to fool. I'm just speculating here, but I'm wondering if the majority of "unwise" appointments deceived him by being on their best behavior until the appointment, after which they felt free to show their true colors.
It's also possible that like some of us (myself included) were, he was swayed in part by "name recognition".
Perhaps it would help to keep in mind that the qualifications for these posts are designed to pick out people who have worked that particular area in government, so of course, there is a seeming endless supply of swamp creatures. Swamp creature posts call out to swamp creatures to fill them.
Maybe not "major", but Betsy DeVos has been pretty good at Education (even though the department should be eliminated).