Doesn't Have a Best-and-Brightest Problem
By Timothy L. O'Brien
March 6, 2018, 9:55 AM EST
... "I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people," he boasted to the Washington Post back then. "We want top-of-the line professionals."
And, here we are. Boris Epshteyn, Anthony Scaramucci, Sebastian Gorka, Carter Page, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Corey Lewandowski, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and others all have come and gone ...
On Monday, Sam Nunberg, a former communications and political adviser whom Trump has sued, hired, fired, rehired and fired again in recent years, made it known that he doesn't plan to comply with a subpoena that the Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller sent his way. Nunberg made a dizzying round of media calls and appearances to reinforce his point, beginning with the Washington Post, in which he dismissed Mueller's investigation of Trump, his presidential campaign, and Russian meddling in the 2016 elections ...
That brings us to Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who also made a media appearance on Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that after Cohen wired a $130,000 payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, for agreeing not to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, he complained to friends that he had yet to be properly reimbursed for the expenditure ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-06/trump-aides-like-nunberg-and-cohen-haunt-his-white-house