Who would help Trump carry out his promised “purge” of the “deep state”?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/who-would-help-trump-carry-out-his-promised-purge-of-the-deep-state/
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John McEntee – Office of Personnel Management
John McEntee, who started as Trump’s body man during the 2016 campaign and is currently working on HR for the Trump campaign, could build upon that role and lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the office charged with recruiting, vetting, and hiring all civil service government employees from intelligence officers and policy advisors to administrative law judges and law enforcement personnel.
At the age of 29, McEntee rose from carrying Trump’s suitcase as his personal aide and body man to serving as the Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) despite previously being fired by former Chief of Staff John Kelly for failing a security clearance background check. As the Director of PPO, McEntee took it upon himself to ensure that all presidential appointees were sufficiently loyal to Trump, conducting loyalty interviews with employees throughout the federal government and monitoring their social media presence. In one case, McEntee’s staff brought to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s attention a young assistant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development who was seen as “consorting with the enemy” by “liking” a Taylor Swift Instagram post where the singer said “VOTE”, in connection to her plans to vote for Joe Biden – despite the fact that 3 million other people also liked the post or that this woman liked all of Taylor Swift’s posts.
McEntee took a particular interest in hiring for cabinet liaison positions. Cabinet liaisons are mid-level positions that are responsible for coordinating messaging among agencies. McEntee weaponized this job category by choosing cabinet liaisons who would report back to him any real or perceived disloyalty. In one instance, McEntee’s chosen DOJ liaison, Heidi Stirrup, walked into Attorney General Barr’s office and lectured him that the 2020 election was being stolen and he wasn’t doing enough to stop the steal. Stirrup’s behavior was so alarming that DOJ officials worried she would snoop into DOJ investigations and barred her from their offices.
In other circumstances, McEntee’s hiring seemed to be based on looks alone – hiring “the most beautiful 21-year-old girls you could find,” including one Rockette whose only prior work experience was as a dance instructor.
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