In staffing his administration, Trump has shown an inclination to select people who distrust or even disdain the agencies that they've been chosen to lead, setting up a potential war of attrition between the incoming Republican president and American institutions.
There's been nothing like what Trump is suggesting to do, said Doug Brinkley, a presidential historian. We're talking about dismantling the federal government.
Trump seems to want to make the nation's law enforcement institutions part of his political operation run out of the White House. That's a major course change that I'm just not sure a majority of senators are willing to endorse, Brower said.
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