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Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 03:14 PM Jun 2022

Here's the primo scumbucket I'D SURE LIKE TO HEAR FROM (J. McEntee)

The office was run by Johnny McEntee. Just 29 when he got the job, he’d come up as Trump’s body guy—the kid who carried the candidate’s bags. One of Trump’s most high-profile Cabinet secretaries described him to me as “a fucking idiot.” But in 2020, his power was undeniable. Trump knew he was the one person willing to do anything Trump wanted. As another senior official told me, “He became the deputy president.”

McEntee and his enforcers made the disastrous last weeks of the Trump presidency possible. They backed the president’s manic drive to overturn the election, and helped set the stage for the January 6 assault on the Capitol. 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.



Nov '21https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal/620646/



Nov ‘21, letter from Rep Thompson:

https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20211109%20McEntee.pdf


Nov. ‘20:

According to a senior administration official, John McEntee, director
of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, is spreading the
word throughout the administration that if he hears of anyone looking
for another job they will be fired.





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Here's the primo scumbucket I'D SURE LIKE TO HEAR FROM (J. McEntee) (Original Post) Leghorn21 Jun 2022 OP
Interesting... I forgot about this scumbag... Ohio Joe Jun 2022 #1
As acting Deputy President in trump's final days, he is almost surely is under investigation. empedocles Jun 2022 #2
Sick & twisted RTump enabler... ultralite001 Jun 2022 #3
Remember, this piece of garbage could not get a security clearence. bottomofthehill Jun 2022 #4
+1 dalton99a Jun 2022 #8
Only the best.... spanone Jun 2022 #5
r&k MerryBlooms Jun 2022 #6
THAT look. czarjak Jun 2022 #7
The Atlantic article is a must read. dalton99a Jun 2022 #9
Wow. What a never-ending train wreck. K&R crickets Jun 2022 #10

Ohio Joe

(21,752 posts)
1. Interesting... I forgot about this scumbag...
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 03:26 PM
Jun 2022

He was subpoenaed but... After that I find nothing. No refusal, no word he showed, no referral to prosecute... Just nothing. Very odd... Very interesting.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
2. As acting Deputy President in trump's final days, he is almost surely is under investigation.
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 03:30 PM
Jun 2022

The Atlantic article is extensive. Even mentions mcenteenees financial vulnerabilities in 2018.

Article notes he is stil in touch with trump. [Seems likely to be in close touch].

No need for DOJ or the Committee to mention him now.

ultralite001

(894 posts)
3. Sick & twisted RTump enabler...
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 04:49 PM
Jun 2022
But the facts didn’t matter to McEntee. By distorting what happened in 1801, McEntee could turn up the pressure on Pence. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and one of those guys on Mount Rushmore. If it was okay for him to use his power as vice president to get himself elected president, how could it not be okay for Pence to use his power to reelect Trump now?


bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
4. Remember, this piece of garbage could not get a security clearence.
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 05:13 PM
Jun 2022

He was such a piece of shit, John Kelly had him removed from the Whitehouse as a security risk. Once Kelly was gone, Trump brought him right back.

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