One reason the people around Trump are so shady–apart from the curtain of shade he casts–is that Trump only respects people who game the system. That’s what a “winner” does, right?
And in addition, Trump’s cabal of con men and women have lots of compromising skeletons that he can hold over them if the going gets rough and backstop is required.
If there’s anything more comically con man than Secretary Mnuchin’s moving-target hype of Trump’s tax windfall-for-himself “reform” bill, it’s probably any public utterance by Secretary Price.