TRUMP ADMIN: “Trump acknowledged over the weekend he made mistakes with personnel appointments during his term in office, saying they were insufficiently loyal to him. GOP primary opponents and commentators, meanwhile, said he simply failed to follow through on his pledge to ‘drain the swamp’ of the federal bureaucracy…
While Trump described some of his his hires as ‘weak,’ ‘pathetic,’ and ‘incompetent,’ Bartiromo asked why he hired these people in the first place.
Trump said he lacked Washington experience when he was elected in 2016 and did not know how the government worked.”
-David Jackson, “Maria Bartiromo tells Donald Trump he didn’t drain the swamp. He blames ‘weak’ and ‘pathetic’ Cabinet,” usatoday.com, July 17, 2023