I know a tiny bit about law, having been a paralegal for a brief time. Among the things I learned was that the law is a huge enterprise, and no one knows more than a tiny fraction. In a relatively small town the small town lawyer can handle everything that comes up, criminal, civil, whatever. But in the larger arena, specific expertise matters a whole lot.
With Trump's hiring of this guy, we're also getting another insight into Donald's narrow understanding of the world. He thinks everything is just like the world of New York real estate, which he thinks he understands quite well. I don't know if he does or not, because I know essentially nothing about that world, but what I do know is that Trump's understanding of it has the same limitations that far too many New Yorkers have about the world outside of NYC. They honestly think that everything that matters in any way shape and form can be gotten in NYC. They honestly haven't a clue that anything of value can possibly exist outside the city. And while NYC is wonderful in many ways -- I've visited less often than I'd like and have loved it every time -- because most of my life has been spent elsewhere, I have a firm grip on the reality that NYC is NOT the center of the known Universe.
And so, back to my original point. Donald Trump thinks that the sun rises and sets on NYC and that nothing else matters. So one question I have is this: aside form organizing golf courses, what sort of travelling outside of NYC has he ever done? Clearly, his travel has always been well within the bubble of Trump, Inc. He's never hailed a cab on his own in some other city, let alone having taken the subway or a bus elsewhere. He's never ordered a hamburger anonymously at some hole-in-the-wall in West Podunk. And so he's totally cut off from the experiences of real people, and hasn't a clue that he's cut off.
Of course, that isolation applies to those in Congress, which is at least in part why they are so enthusiastic about cutting off health care to the riff-raff.
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