In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal
Source: Washington Post
Former University of Connecticut quarterback Johnny McEntee returned to the White House in February as personnel director for the U.S. government. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By
Josh Dawsey,
Juliet Eilperin,
John Hudson and
Lisa Rein
November 13, 2020 at 8:19 p.m. CST
Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials, a senior climate scientist and the leader of the agency that safeguards nuclear weapons.
Engineering much of the post-election purge is Johnny McEntee, a former college quarterback who was hustled out of the White House two years ago after a security clearance check turned up a prolific habit for online gambling.
A staunch Trump loyalist, McEntee, 30, was welcomed back into the fold in February and installed as personnel director for the entire U.S. government. Since the race was called for President-elect Joe Biden, McEntee has been distributing pink slips, warning federal workers not to cooperate with the Biden transition and threatening to oust people who show disloyalty by job hunting while Trump is still refusing to acknowledge defeat, according to six administration officials.
More firings are expected, White House and agency officials said, including a top cybersecurity official whose agency on Thursday disputed Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud. While the motives are not always clear -- is the White House pursuing last-minute policy goals or simply punishing disloyalty? -- critics say the dismissals threaten to destabilize broad swaths of the federal bureaucracy in the fragile period during the handover to the next administration.
McEntee is not just firing people. The Pentagon general counsel this week hired former Republican operative and political appointee Michael Ellis as general counsel of the National Security Agency, making him a civilian member of the senior executive service. That gives Ellis civil service protections that will make it hard for Biden's team to push him out. Several officials said McEntee also wants to help campaign allies secure jobs in the White House.
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McEntee
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doing the shooting as their cause crumbles
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to remember NEVER to hire! 
That's the age when they get them hooked.
But this part -
is what should get him shit-canned. The obtuse and/or non-existence "security clearances" that this current WH had performed (or not performed and lied about), will need to be done FOR REAL and allow them to get these people out and yes, even as a civil servant, security clearances "matter".
