All of these appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate. McConnell and the leadership wanted Sessions. He told Trump they wouldn’t confirm anybody else.
Trump had to settle for only 6 months of Ratcliffe at DNI because the senate wouldn’t confirm him then he rotated Miller in for 6 months. Its not as easy as you would think.
The Senate and House are pretty much globalist uniparty.
The other thing to keep in mind is that Trump was never a politician. He didn’t have 20 or more years in the legislature or 8 years in a governorship to establish a cadre of party connected cohorts to surround himself with and fill cabinet positions like regular politicians do. So he had to rely on guys like Christie who he thought was a friend to suggest good candidates. He got played.
Now Trump has wised up. He won’t be repeating mistakes of his first term.
“All of these appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate. McConnell and the leadership wanted Sessions. He told Trump they wouldn’t confirm anybody else.”
He should have gone public with this then. He should have howled on social media what McConnell was doing and asked his supporters to contact any of their senators who agreed to go along with it. They should have been threatened with a primary challenger and cut off from donations.
It may not have worked but at least he would have been fighting instead of just accepting whatever names McConnell put in front of him.