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I don't buy it. Who would Trump have appointed? What, was he supposed to rotate every position every 3 months or whatever the cutoff was? It makes no sense.Please. The Senate won't confirm? Fine, appoint an acting head indefinitely. It's all bureaucratic nonsense anyway. Obama, being a consummate politician, understood this which is why he could completely overrun the civil service with his place men Trump's greatest flaw was not simply accepting that he was there for one term and using the full power of the Presidency to smash his enemies and to get his agenda passed.
Obama could run roughshod over the civil service because there were slavish Democrat loyalists already positioned for it and had been for years. Trump had no such luxury, because he was not a standard Republican.