How this rogues' gallery of Trump supporters could get security clearances

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Trump cares more about loyalty to him than loyalty to the nation's security.
56% : Trump said in May that Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, is "a very talented guy" and that he'd consider appointing him as attorney general.
46% : Our national security guardrails could vaporize if Trump wins.
42% : Such evidence, independent of any conviction, would weigh heavily against Nauta's getting the security clearance needed should Trump want him to sling soda again in the White House.
37% : It's not clear whether Trump has seen the reported proposal, but if it's authentic, then its mere existence should worry Americans, even as it excites our foreign adversaries.
36% : When Trump wanted his son-in-law Jared Kushner to serve in the White House, career government security clearance adjudicators raised concerns over Kushner's business, foreign entanglements and contacts and denied him a high-level clearance.
34% : Alternatively, the proposal suggests Trump do an end around the FBI and hire private investigative firms to conduct background inquiries.
32% : In addition to that, his advisers, some of whom would have difficulty obtaining security clearances from the government, are reportedly hatching a plot that would let Trump grant security clearances to people who may not be qualified to hold them.
28% : But if Trump places his loyalists in those guardrail positions, there will be no one to stanch the flow of classified data to Trump's cadre of co-conspirators and no one to advise him against declassifying it to give it to them.
27% : A private firm would have little incentive to seek and find derogatory information that could disqualify someone from holding a clearance if it fears Trump would react negatively to such findings.
20% : According to a report by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Trump handcuffed the FBI by dictating and limiting the interviews the agency could conduct to resolve sexual misconduct allegations.
19% : Later hired by Trump as a civilian personal aide, Nauta was charged for what a grand jury said was his role in mishandling classified documents Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
10% : Trump says that if he wins, he'll bring back his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with the Russian government but was later pardoned by Trump.

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