Is Trump outside network helpful or a liability?
in United States

How Trump works: A network of friends and advisers on the outside http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/politics/donald-trump-phone-outsiders/index.html

 nearly every day of his presidency, President Donald Trump has picked up the phone and turned to a network of more than two dozen fellow Billionaires, and other informal advisers.
is that a good way to run the country, and this network provides value insyead of leveraging his actual staff?