This tenuous balance is in jeopardy ― threatened by the lethal confluence of Trump’s public humiliation with his penchant for choosing bad advisers. Ivanka and Jared are triple threats ― incompetent, ethically-challenged nepotists empowered by their role model as senior White House advisers. Then comes an admitted felon who lied to cover Trump’s dealings with Russia: erstwhile National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whose hallucinatory passion for conspiracy theories fed Trump’s own. And the zealot Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior adviser, revels in crafting the cruel refugee and immigration policies with which the administration inflames unchecked xenophobia. Leah Millis / Reuters White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders laughs with White House senior adviser Stephen Miller during a cabinet meeting in July.

Source: Huffington Post September 10, 2018 09:45 UTC