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That's democracy in action!
The 70-year-old businessman places a premium on finding and keeping hires who are utterly devoted to him and his gilded kingdom of skyscrapers and golf courses.
Having people you trust running an organization is fine, but that cannot be a realistic approach to choosing advisors for running a nation. This is the man that will potentially be in charge of sensitive material, like U.S. nuclear launch codes, and he relies on the obedient judgement of a friend? That is dangerous and gives him more power than his position allows.