Overall, I’d rate this as a pretty weak piece of journalism.
Everybody knows Rand’s dad was and is a fruitcake. Who cares about an assistant’s background from a decade earlier ?
That “Fruitcake” was instrumental in getting the legislation passed for the unlimited minting of gold and silver Eagles, and AFAIC, fruitcake or not THAT puts him at the top of the political pile of dung in my book...