{"id":135922,"date":"2018-02-26T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135922"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:22:38","slug":"keep-friends-close-trump-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/keep-friends-close-trump-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Friends Close (Trump Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In personal businesses (leaving aside crime mobs), personal relationship is everything. People you know are the people you know, and the only ones from whom you can expect loyalty from. Outside experts are, by definition, outsiders, and cannot be trusted because they are not, first and foremost, people in your circle.<\/p>\n

So this kind of behavior — “Hey, this guy flies my plane, he says hi to me whenever I get on board, once he brought me a bowl of peanuts and he let me sit in the co-pilots chair, so of course<\/i> he’s the best guy to run the FAA” — is completely what I would expect from Trump. And, by the same token, I expect it to blow up in his face (and\/or the nation’s face) as a result.<\/p>\n

John Dunkin may be an incredible pilot, and he might even surprise me by being a fantastic FAA Administrator. But the two do not automatically go together, and the president’s apparent top criteria for nomination — personal acquaintance and expected personal loyalty — do not fill me with confidence.<\/p>\n

[h\/t +<\/span>Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n


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\nExclusive: Trump privately pushing personal pilot to run FAA<\/a><\/span>
\nThe agency has a budget in the billions and oversees all civil aviation in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In personal businesses (leaving aside crime mobs), personal relationship is everything. People you know are the people you know, and the only ones from whom you can expect loyalty from. Outside experts are, by definition, outsiders, and cannot be trusted because they are not, first and foremost, people in your circle. 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