No, I honestly do not think that was the case. Trump simply got a whole lot of really bad advice when it came to who he surrounded himself with. He learned some really hard lessons during his time in the WH and even after. There are only a very small handful of people that he can trust. Trump's style is not to micromanage. He likes to delegate and he does expect those he gives responsibility to perform. He gives people a chance to show what they are made of. Unfortunately, this strategy may not always work the same in politics as it does in business. Like I said, he did not exactly have a great employment pool of qualified people to pull from - and then there was the SES that is the real deep state within government along with the intelligence apparatus -the unofficial 4th branch of government.

This is a war and we have to remember that. Wars have many battles fought along the way. You win some, and you may lose some. But we keep fighting. We learn more about our enemy as engage along the way. Right now, our enemy is desperate and exposing themselves out in the open. We need to figure out why so we can counter.