**He should be turning to the ‘private’ sector for all appointments. **\
the problem with picking from the private sector is, many in the private sector like their privacy. Nom for cabinet or agency means hostile congresscritters crawling all over their private affairs and client lists and grinding the rumor mill into high gear to damage those carefully nurtured over decades relationships. Much to lose and little to gain. Example: Fabricating a dotted line between Trump and Russia hurt his business and the talking heads were literally drooling over the prospect of breaking up Trump’s marriage, not to mention bashing his still-juvenile son. Barron, to attempt to alienate him from his classmates.
And then there’s the new game the hostiles play of expecting noms to divest or transfer their investments/assets at firesale prices and high tax costs. Not that dems are expected to do that, (see Newsom’s wife selling political propaganda lesson plans and movie screenings to public schools or insider trading fortunes accumulated by critters’ spouses) but there’s that double standard.
He did try to hire Bill Gates as science advisor.