Paladino:
1. If a guy who worked for you once, but not now, is now off by himself somewhere... and he says something stupid...
what does that have to do with you?
Nothing.
It simply has nothing to do with you.
It has nothing to do with you except in the minds of people who hate you, and will grasp at straws to smear you.
2. To clarify: the guy isn't a subordinate because he doesn't work for Trump, (he isn't on Trump's payroll, and he isn't part of the transition team) and what he says, somewhere else, has nothing to do with Trump.
3. Even if he WAS still a subordinate, the only PROPER and NECESSARY course of action is to admonish or fire the person... end of story.
And... Trump's team HAS admonished him... just to cover all the bases.
There is no story here.
4. Simple Example: I have lots of stupid friends, and lots of people who used to work for me... and when they go out and say something stupid... I'm not responsible.
If you think I AM responsible for what all my friends say....
then I'm going to look up all your friends here,
and I'm going to accuse YOU of everything they have ever said about anything.
This is all just utterly ridiculous.