If they are not working, they are not interfering with people’s lives.
What leadership? You would get better leadership from a college football cheerleading team. Much better.
His aides probably did the same thing that Hollywood did, they hired according to discriminatory characteristics.
E.g., HR mandates that every dept have XX% of some “protected class”. An incoming employee is told that and there is ample docs in HR substantiating it.
So, if times change and you try and fire for silly things like productivity or competence, they can point to the hiring rules and themselves and ask: “Wut, have I changed?”. So, you cannot fire them. You will be sued into oblivion — IN PUBLIC!!