That would have to be the first layer, lying by legal word play or omission. There must have been a lot of insubordination from the lifetime bureaucrats during his last tenure to do that. Blackmail could be the next layer, which I would imagine would stop anything else they couldn't get by just lying to him.
That would have to be the first layer, lying by legal word play or omission. There must have been a lot of insubordination from the lifetime bureaucrats during his last tenure to do that. Blackmail could be the next layer, which I would imagine would stop anything else they couldn't get by just lying to him.
And you only really need to pull out stuff beyond lying for issues he's really fixated on, which varies from little to nothing, at least abroad.
Yep. I think it's especially useful for them to have a populist politician that can put his seal of approval on any of their legacy policy proposals.