Imagine a preeminent White House official who is unqualified, incompetent, and contemptuous of the law. Or who conceals his contacts with foreign officials, is targeted for exploitation by foreign intelligence services because of his naïveté and lack of ethics, and is deemed a security risk by his own government.
Imagine one who conducts suspicious and undisclosed meetings with a foreign power. Or who enmeshes America in the reckless acts of a murderous foreign autocrat. Or who exploits his position for personal and business advantage.
Any one of these conditions would ordinarily be cause for the official’s resignation and disgrace—mandating this malefactor’s immediate termination.
But what if that the president’s most influential advisor combined all these qualities—yet was also the president’s son-in-law.
