Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 10
Hire only "the best people"
Broken“[paraphrase] I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.”
- Promised
- , Campaign launch and repeated throughout the campaign
- Re-promised
- 20 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Ethics & conflicts
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The administration had record senior-staff turnover, with Brookings measuring roughly 92 percent turnover among A-team positions over four years. Six Trump associates, including campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security adviser Michael Flynn, adviser Roger Stone and attorney Michael Cohen, were convicted or pleaded guilty to federal crimes.