The president has to appoint literally hundreds of people to many, many positions practically down to the level of 'federal dog catcher'.
Even someone like Trump who knows a lot of people is going to have a hard time filling these positions. It wouldn't take very many deep state stooges inserting deep stater bombs into the appointment process to screw up a lot of the entire thing. Some of these positions have craploads of discretionary authority. With regards to even the judicial branch, how many judges do you know well enough to get an idea of their actual judicial philosophy? I'm not sure exactly how you'd manage to deal with the inevitable enemy action that you'd see on a field of battle that large.
This is especially true when you have to take care of a lot of day-to-day stuff yourself to make sure you don't get screwed over by some of that stuff.I know a lot of folks have criticized Trump for some of his picks. I have done a bit of that myself. I still don't understand why he let his picks in the rather inaccurately named 'department of justice' hang around so long when it was obvious they were working against him. I think overall though, that he did better than he was generally given credit for which is why they were willing to pull out all the stops even to the point of making it obvious that voting in this country is as rigged as it is in any 3rd world craphole. TPTB could not risk him having another 4 consecutive years to consolidate things. Because of their desperation, they had to accelerate some things that had been previously planned for farther out into the future. Their desperation also made their efforts a lot more obvious than they otherwise would have been. Many eyes were at least temporarily opened by this.
I said not to give credit to Mitch McConnell for judges.
>>The president has to appoint literally hundreds of people to many, many positions practically down to the level of ‘federal dog catcher’.
Trump replaced Chris Christie as head of his transition team after the election. Christie was replaced by Pence, and Trump’s children and son-in-law were named to the executive committee.
Replacing Christie might have been a good idea, but they also threw out all the work done since May, which left them with no plan. And they didn’t have the teams ready to start work with the outgoing managers in each department on the details of the transition.
And Trump himself basically had no clue as to how the federal government was organized and how to manage it.