Putting aside the fact that this isn't Trump's first rodeo (or technically even his second), sure, you get in office and suddenly your family's lives are threatened by a foreign lobbyist. There's still so much damage you could do to the machine just by blindly throwing levers and casting blame. We saw it with USAID. Even if you are now afraid to enact your full platform for whatever reason, just keep cutting budgets and blaming things on "the deep state." Keep the momentum moving, even if you personally want to pass the buck.

I can't come up with a good explanation for not doing that and still being our guy in any way.