> Why would you not start with the very best, most impregnable, advantage that you could if you new you were going to come under attack anyway? >Doesn't even pass the smell test. I explained this in my last comment. A non GOPe aligned MAGA star team would have been ostracized by the Dem/GOPe and DS employees of govt, rendered totally ineffective as the swamp protects itself. It would be a waste of time, because there would be no progress revealing and draining the swamp, it would be a failed presidency. Trump needed to use the GOPe to access the levers of govt to have a successful term, to be in a position to reveal DS controlled politicians, governors, AGs, SoS's, Prosecutors, etc. to the people. To set up the sting called the 2020 election, devolution and a few other landmines. A Precident - Ronnie Raygun had to accept GHWB as VPOTUS and a slew of GOPe in his cabinet, yet he was able to dramatcally improve the lives of Americans. He wasnt out to drain the swamp though. That's the way to succeed when the DS uniparty controls almost all the levers of power.