"It would be hard to pick someone more at odds with Trump's campaign promise to 'drain the swamp.' A bureaucrat-turned-Wall-Street-banker, Kudlow thought that the massive Bush tax cuts for the rich were actually too liberal, and wants to abolish corporate taxes altogether — leaving hardworking families to pick up the tab. He pooh-poohed recession concerns for years as the crisis grew, and as late as July 2008 said we were in a 'mental recession' — not an actual recession," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Eric Walker in an email.