Well, This Is Not Good
Trump has a thirty year old former quarterback with a gambling addiction running the personal office of the White House.
The Washington Post has the story of Johnny McEntee, who sits outside of Trump’s office and fires people seen as not sufficiently loyal to the president. And, probably even worse, hiring people for civil service jobs in key departments to keep Trump loyalists there to spy.
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.
And beyond that …
Michael Ellis was hired as general counsel of the NSA, making him a civilian member of the senior executive service, meaning it will make it very hard for the Biden administration to get rid of him.
Some officials said they worry the new hires could destroy briefing documents prepared for the incoming Biden administration. Others criticized McEntee’s choices for key government roles.
The kid is 30 years old and asks questions like …
One Environmental Protection Agency employee was asked his opinion on pulling troops out of Afghanistan. “I work at the EPA,” the official said, startled.
Another official said she was asked her opinion about the president’s proclamation on transgender troops.
So, the only requirement to work at the White House is being loyal to Trump. You can be dumber than bean dip but if you’re loyal to Trump, you can head the NSA.
And now we all know that Trump is not a real blonde ….
He’s still got a combover though.
Counting the days ….
The new hire is always background checked for possible problems with security risks. Like the ones listed here:
Ellis also has figured in the controversy over Trump’s effort last year to pressure Ukraine’s president to undertake what a whistleblower said was a politically motivated investigation of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-did-trump-loyalist-come-be-named-nsa-general-counsel-and-what-should-biden-do-about-it
1Every autocrat has a clutch of rabid little attack dogs who glory in inflicting pain and terror on their victims. POUTUS is no different. Even in the dying days of his reign of chaos, his appetite for revenge and destruction means sending out his brown shirted sadist McEntee to rip and tear — just as the Nazi koolaid drinkers were shooting their own in the last days of the war to instill “discipline”…
It’s foul and disgusting and evil — and entirely to be expected.
January 20 cannot come fast enough.
2DUHtrumpf must have decided after being around and seeing Joe Biden on teevee that maybe he looks more presidential, so for his 2024 campaign, he wants to take look like a winner.
3As for the youngest smilie faced swamp monster, suggest people just do the WH tap dance and lie for now. His days are more numbered than theirs.
During Hitler’s final days hunkered down in his Berlin bunker, squads of fanatical SS soldiers were tasked with rooting out those Germans who had wavering, or insufficient loyalty to ”der fuhrer” both civilian and military. Hundreds were hung from lamp posts without trial just days before the end of the war by SS vigilante groups. Hitler’s own brother-in-law Gen. Fegalein was caught up in this final purge after he skipped out of the death bunker and got caught, & promptly hung.
4Well it might be hard to get rid of Michael Ellis as general counsel of the NSA but he can always be reassigned to an office in North Dakota or some other desolate place. This method can be used to get people to quit.
5The probationary period for federal civil servants is generally one year. So if this Chaffetz wannabe thinks he can handcuff the Biden administration with a flurry of incompetent new hires he would be mistaken. However, it does complicate the state of the various agencies as to needed staffing levels.
After Rexxon Drillerson decimated the State Dept. of career personnel, then Pompeo was sent in to completely demoralize the Dept. it’s a safe bet that the incoming administration is well aware of all the rebuilding that will be necessary with every agency.
A trial balloon was sent up or rumored about Hilz as UN Sec. At this juncture both Hilz and Kerry could be used for their recruiting skills and knowledge about career diplomats. Personally would have no problem with Kerry being enlisted to kick some soap over at the Pentagon.
However, there are some “need not apply” category applicants like John Kasich and $r0mney. The line there is there’s desperate, then there’s stupid along the lines of appointing the Outlaw Jersey Whale to an inspector general position.
6Last Saturday was so wonderful with the Biden victory. I wish his majesty would decamp to MarALago and play golf for a couple of months.
7Grandma Ada @7, we totally endorse your sentiment there. But the incompetent Toddler-in-Thief has been playing golf for 4 years. Problem is his maladministration is full of complicit kapos to do the dirty work while Hair Fuhrer tweets his damage from wherever he ensconces his haunches on the pot.
Have posted this link before with every intention of sharing it with President Biden’s AG and agency heads who will be tasked with repairing the mess in January. It’s interactive and very accurate as to where the rogues in the current maladministration have been doing the damage. The who, how, where and a whole lot of where the money needs to be scratched back from these criminals. The corruption in snapshots: https://prospect.org/mapping-corruption-interactive?fbclid=IwAR06LQ6NSjjX-LXC9ggbU8lK2Z9tb1L2roYV9vC0B35YiNwG3oJzGHoFvCM
8Silence from rethuglicans means acceptance of more destruction
9linda @9 “acceptance” is such a nice word and certainly not one the rethuglicans deserve. Kompromat, complicit, quisling, traitor, etc. are also probably too nice. With their fluffing of the fu king moron, they’ve somehow rehabilitated Nixon the crook, Bush2 the once biggest political idiot, and history’s best known appeaser, Neville Chamberlain.
It’s difficult to accept that for their outlandish tax cuts and control of the courts, that they are so willing to throw democracy and the rule of law into the ditch. Or, maybe not. Maybe it just seems there should be more behind their inexplicable behavior. Follow the money used to be a good rule of thumb; maybe that needs an ‘upgrade’ to follow the ruble.
10Precedent, it all boils down to precedent. tRump has spent the last 4 years disrupting norms and setting new precedents, so Biden needs to use them to clean up government.
He can fire whomever he likes, so on Day 1, start with the incompetent sychophants tRump installed. Next, replace these Qanon hacks with smart, capable people and dare the repuglican party to sue.
Next, he can appoint cabinet members AS TEMPS, and force McConnell to do something about it.
In the end, it will take up the bulk of Biden’s term to clear away the rubbish, and hopefully the following 4 years will be used to do real, useful work on the people’s behalf.
11“What do you think of the disgusting idea of transgender troops in the American military?”, asked NSA general counsel Michael Ellis.
“Sir, this is a McDonald’s”, replied the teenager at the drive-thru window.
12Its impossible NOT to notice that tRump hires people who in some way share one or more of his own traits. That can backfire on him like he would never believe! But don’t tell him! Let him find out the hard way! Its more fun to watch!
13I know someone who works in the NSA legal department. It takes 6 months to hire an administrative assistant, so Ellis is not going to be installed by Jan. 20.
14Did none of Trumpf’s appointees ever hear about the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America? That tiresome Fredom of Speech is because we decided it was OK to speak out against the king/dictator. Screw this guy.
15Does anyone remember how this debacle started?
It happened because of all of the Independents and so called Democrats who refused to vote for the Democratic candidate!
Does anyone with any intelligence still believe (notice I did not write “think”) that Trumpster would be a better president than a Clinton?
The only good that can come from this experience should be that “it will be a cold day in Hell” before another Republican is ever again elected president!
Trump is not an aberration! He is just the worst of a bad lot.
16The “party of Lincoln” has been defiled! It should go the way of the “WIGS”, or the “know Nothing Party”.
The definition of “being dumber than bean dip” is “being a Trump loyalist.”
Or is it vice versa?
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