By Hunter
Monday Nov 28, 2016 · 8:15 PM EST
Remember how the Republican superdonor Koch brothers despised Donald Trump during the campaign and wanted nothing to do with him, going so far as to refuse him access to their own databanks and gatherings?
That was then and this is now, and Trump's proto-administration is rapidly filling up with Koch-backed functionaries. In Trump, the anti-regulation, anti-government corporatists see a man who can be easily swayed to support their own agenda.
From White House Counsel Don McGahn and transition team advisers Tom Pyle, Darin Selnick and Alan Cobb to Presidential Inaugural Committee member Diane Hendricks and transition-team executive committee members Rebekah Mercer and Anthony Scaramucci, Trump has surrounded himself with people tied to the Kochs.
“In creating the Koch network, I don’t think that we ever envisioned that we would be supplying staffers to this semi-free market, semi-populist president,” said Frayda Levin, a donor to the network who chairs the board of its main voter mobilization group, Americans for Prosperity. “But we’re happy that he’s picking people who have that free market background, particularly because on many issues, he is a blank slate, so anybody with expertise is in an amazing position to shape his agenda.”
Say what you want, but the Kochs’ private army of lobbyists and advocacy heads has got Trump's number. When a man is known for changing his mind based on the opinions of the last person he's spoken with, all you need to do is make sure you're always the last person he's spoken with.
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