henchman

"My reaction really is one of alarm," he said, describing Patel as "one of Trump's henchmen from the very beginning, one of the most loyal of all of the loyalists in the small circle."

Trump apparently plans to fire Wray for no reason at all except that he wants to install a personal henchman in the job.

Lysenko benefited from Stalin’s suspicion of and hostility toward scientific experts, whom his henchmen denigrated as “enemies of the people” for their defense of “pure science for the sake of science.”

Sure, he'll do those things if he can but they were mostly arguments for getting elected so he'll leave that in the hands of his henchmen and take credit for whatever they manage to do.

If Trump wants to let Bobby go wild, his henchmen will find a way to circumvent any impediments.