He was alone, under attack from all points of the compass
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No one forced his top two advisors on him. That being Jared and Ivanka. To go back to the Godfather, those two were not wartime consiglieres and that’s what Trump needed right out of the gate. Just spitballing here but I’m guessing those four years would have gone a lot different if Trump had picked Colonel Allen West and Candace Owens as his top two advisers instead of Ivanka and Jared.
I’m not fans of them, but they at least were loyal to him. That can be said about -very- few others. Huckabee comes to mind as one.