[rlmorel]

I don’t think it was intentional (not the 4D Chess thing people joke about) as much as it was that being a newcomer to the political scene, he had to depend on the recommendations of others.

In my opinion, that tends to concentrate the damaging effects in much the same way that a shaped explosive concentrates the damaging effects of a munition due to the smaller pool of non-deep state advisors.

[Fledermaus]

Good point.