Regarding “The acting administration” (Editorial, Feb. 5): Why be surprised that President Trump has Cabinet-level officials like the attorney general, defense secretary and interior secretary serving in an acting capacity, with many other administrative-level positions vacant?
Trump’s true inner circle is his daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and conservative flamethrowers like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. The rest of his advisers are merely interchangeable pieces of a picture puzzle called “A Functioning Democratic Government” that never gets completed.
Terrence Williams, Berkeley
