Trump boasts of hiring only the best, but picks haunt him (2017)
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... President Donald Trump likes to boast that he hires only the best people. But his personnel choices keep coming back to haunt him.

One of the people Trump hired for the White House was working as a foreign agent while advising him during the election. His campaign chairman caught the Justice Department's attention for similarly surreptitious work. And a third campaign adviser was reportedly surveilled by the FBI as part of an investigation into whether or not he was a Russian spy.

The tales of Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Carter Page -- none of whom still work for Trump -- have created a steady drip of allegations that have clouded Trump's early presidency and raised persistent questions about his judgment.

At worst, Trump's personnel picks appear to have left his campaign " and perhaps his White House -- vulnerable to the influence of foreign powers. ...