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Ohio Joe

(21,727 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 04:40 PM Jun 2022

I am not the surprise witness... Or am I...



I suspect it'll be someone they already talked to... Not a crazy person... Someone a bit out of left field who we have not heard much, if any, mention of... I bet it's going to be interesting.
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Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
3. Well, if it's not YOU, Joe, may I humbly request an appearance from this little scumbucket??
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 05:22 PM
Jun 2022

Last edited Mon Jun 27, 2022, 08:29 PM - Edit history (1)

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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