Jonathan Karl: Almost Comedically Unqualified Trump Staffer Dangerously Led Much of the White House

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Jonathan Karl: Almost Comedically Unqualified Trump Staffer Dangerously Led Much of the White House

 BY JASON MICIAK at PoliticusUSA

Jonathan Karl: Almost Comedically Unqualified Trump Staffer Dangerously Led Much of the White House Up to Jan. 6th

“I have… the best people.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/09/jonathan-karl-almost-comedically-unqualified-trump-staffer-dangerously-led-much-of-the-white-house-up-to-jan-6th.html

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Jonathan Karl’s new book, “Betrayal, the Final Act of the Trump Show” as reported, in part, through excerpts found in the Atlantic, promises to fill in much of the back story as to how Donald Trump took the United States through the disastrous period, beginning roughly on December 1st and up to and through January 6th and very nearly overturned an election.

Much of it can be traced all the way back to a very young and inexperienced staffer, one of the first hired by the campaign, Johnny McEntee. McEntee pulled off something that only happened in a dysfunctional organization like the Trump White House. McEntee had been fired as Trump’s bodyman early on due to gambling and other issues, and was then rehired in January 2020, just as Trump was coming out of the first impeachment proceedings, with Trump determined to never let himself be put in such a situation again. Trump put McEntee partly in charge of firing everyone deemed insufficiently loyal.

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Thanks to them, in the end, the elusive ‘adults in the room’ — those who might have been willing to confront the president or try to control his most destructive tendencies—were silenced or gone. But McEntee was there — bossing around Cabinet secretaries, decapitating the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, and forcing officials high and low to state their allegiance to Trump.”

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However, none of this should ever have been allowed to ride almost solely upon Mike Pence’s shoulders. It just happened to work out that way. After all, loyal or not, Pence was one person that even McEntee himself couldn’t fire.

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[Blue Owl]

1. The Slobfather's Cornball Consigliere

I hope this fuck has a lousy rest of a career shoveling manure

[Grasswire2]

4. MOB MOB MOB MOB style

all the time, all the way.

[keithbvadu2]

2. He has the only qualification needed: absolute loyalty to Trump over country.

He has the only qualification needed: absolute loyalty to Trump over country.

[gratuitous]

3. So glad you didn't tell us in real time, Jonathan

You have a book to sell now, and you got paid for being a reporter last year, so it's all good. Salary, side hustle, and a book to hawk. Life is good, isn't it, Jonathan? And how much damage, really, did the former guy's administration do anyway? Five hundred thousand, six hundred thousand excess pandemic deaths? Is that really so bad now that your book is out?

[Boomerproud]

9. Couldn't have said it better myself.

CNN had a story on their site from Karls" book about another kid from New Jersey , a 25 yr old trump worshiper named Whitehouse who he installed at the Pentagon and threatened even superiors. Whitehouse got Mark Espers fired for not allowing Confederate flags on military bases among other sins. His interview with Karl made me want to vomit.

[cilla4progress]

5. I recall when tfg

brought him onboard. It was obvious he would be a guided missile to remove anyone with a conscience.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[underpants]

7. Yep. I remember him also threatening anyone who was looking for work

He would go around telling staffers, who clearly were about to lose their job, that if he saw their resume online he’d fire them.

[LiberalFighter]

8. He needs to be blackballed and slimed publicly.