Brett Talley

[Benton]

Well, you can't drain the swamp and have competent people.



First I heard of this was yesterday. I doubt Trump even knows the guy's name. He likely was told he had a vacancy, asked one of his people who he should place and went with whatever they said. If someone told him to place Kenneth Map on the bench, he'd look real stern and say 'Great idea, bring him in. He'll be great.'

Which is largely how businesses are ran. The closer you get to the top, the more you have to rely on the people under you to make sound decisions. The problem is, Trump has surrounded himself with people who make unethical, illegal or — at the very least — bad decisions. That's why so many feared a muck up by his 'run it as a business' approach, when he's got so many business failures. When you're diversified enough to say 'well, we lost $10 million here, but we made $10 million there, so it's a wash' it's one thing. You can't take that approach with government and say 'Well, we accidentally wiped out our oil reserve, but we did really great at increasing low income housing, so it's a wash.'