What’s so dumbfounding is how gratuitous his arrogance is. Yes, the Representatives interviewing him are, by and large, nitwits. (These are people who bring snowballs into Congress to disprove climate change. And, Gowdy-- Jesus that guy looks/is dense.)
But the smirking? The looking away/distracted? The chinraising? The impatient sighing? Who does that? 12 year-olds do that. Even if you are that arrogant, you know that there’s a high social cost to showing that arrogance. You learn early on to hide that arrogance and only show it with your elite peers. (Unless you’re Donald Trump, who gets away with it by “sharing” it such that it becomes a “group arrogance.”)
And doesn’t his company have any control of him? Don’t they hire PR firms that would tell him to “Shut up– Shut up now”? Isn’t his own lawyer telling him to “Shut up– Shut up now”? What about his parents, ex-friends, ex-girlfriends?
This is all so baffling. I don’t understand how a cancerous personality like his is allowed to survive in the corporate community…
