No Shit, Sherlock

President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists.

  NYT

Of course he is. That's the way the game is played.

Mr. Trump was swept to power in large part by white working-class voters who responded to his vow to restore the voices of forgotten people, ones drowned out by big business and Wall Street. But in his transition to power, some of the most prominent voices will be those of advisers who come from the same industries for which they are being asked to help set the regulatory groundwork.

As did Barack Obama and George W Bush and probably every other president we've ever had.

“This whole idea that he was an outsider and going to destroy the political establishment and drain the swamp were the lines of a con man, and guess what — he is being exposed as just that,” said Peter Wehner, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush before becoming a speechwriter for George W. Bush. “He is failing the first test, and he should be held accountable for it.”

Yeah, you notice that "drain the swamp" mantra didn't last but a hot minute.

BTW, this article reminds me that Trump's spokeswoman is named Hope Hicks.

The president-elect’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, declined a request for comment, as did nearly a dozen corporate executives, consultants and lobbyists serving on his transition team, which was outlined in a list distributed widely in Washington on Thursday.

This stuff is all par for the crooked course of American presidential politics. It's the family members who'll be part of the administration that intrigues me. You thought Bill and Hillary came as a team - the Trumps come as an entire family. Which one of those boys is called "Sonny"?

And one more thing this article brings up: Ed Meese is still alive!

Isn't that also par for the course?