Opinion: When you work for Trump, your highest loyalty is to him
President Trump outside the White House on Friday. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 5 at 3:31 PM In a move that is both ridiculous and perfectly true to form, President Trump announced that he will nominate Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, just days after saying another seat on the board would be filled by pretend economist Stephen Moore.
A more distinctly ideological president might seek out appointees whose devotion to his party’s beliefs is strong enough that they would be willing to overlook empirical reality or the broader interests of the country to serve ideological and partisan ends. This is a man who said, “The other day I was on a panel with media reporters and I suggested in all seriousness that Donald Trump deserves the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics." He also co-wrote a fawning book called “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy." And he even testified that Trump is “in incredible, great shape.”
The most obvious example right now is Attorney General William P. Barr, who almost certainly was appointed because he wrote a memo making the case that the president could not possibly be guilty of obstruction of justice while carrying out official acts — like firing the FBI director to shut down an investigation into the president’s campaign.
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