One weakness I see in Trump is that he’s not the greatest when it comes to hiring the RIGHT people.
I think the mistake was not knowing the deep state is 95% of government and taking advice from them.
He clearly got bad advice from people like Christie and Kushner..but at this point I am wondering if there are very many people that are not part of the huge DC problem.
1. For the first time in his life, Trump wasn't the boss. He had to answer to a "board of directors" (i.e., the U.S. Senate) for every one of his key appointments.
2. As a political outsider, Trump had no circle of close associates who had any interest in wasting their time and energy working for the U.S. government. In fact, some of his long-time associates who DID want to work in his administration were disloyal, untrustworthy people if not outright criminals. I'll offer Michael Cohen as a perfect example of this.