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brooklynite

(94,804 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 11:24 AM Feb 2020

Scoop: New White House personnel chief tells Cabinet liaisons to target Never Trumpers

Source: Axios

Johnny McEntee called in White House liaisons from cabinet agencies for an introductory meeting Thursday, in which he asked them to identify political appointees across the U.S. government who are believed to be anti-Trump, three sources familiar with the meeting tell Axios.

Behind the scenes: McEntee, a 29-year-old former body man to Trump who was fired in 2018 by then-Chief of Staff John Kelly but recently rehired — and promoted to head the presidential personnel office — foreshadowed sweeping personnel changes across government.
* But McEntee suggested the most dramatic changes may have to wait until after the November election.
* Trump has empowered McEntee — whom he considers an absolute loyalist — to purge the “bad people” and “Deep State.”
* McEntee told staff that those identified as anti-Trump will no longer get promotions by shifting them around agencies.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/scoop-white-house-personnel-chief-targets-never-trumpers-2ee51bfd-03f9-4971-8308-863c81ace5f0.html

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Scoop: New White House personnel chief tells Cabinet liaisons to target Never Trumpers (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2020 OP
Awful! Drum Feb 2020 #1
So... rolling out the night of long knives then. Zoonart Feb 2020 #2
Must have cleaned up his gambling problem unc70 Feb 2020 #3
He's all in now. The stakes are huge. Power or Prison? What a rush! Marcuse Feb 2020 #7
He must be totally terrified of anyone not absolutely loyal to him...especially, career personnel Frustratedlady Feb 2020 #4
GOPhascism C_U_L8R Feb 2020 #5
It's a variation on the Stalin doctrine of "no man no problem". LastDemocratInSC Feb 2020 #11
OMG! Bayard Feb 2020 #6
Yep BigOleDummy Feb 2020 #8
Boy are you correct OldBaldy1701E Feb 2020 #13
And we wonder how democratic governments are taken over by autocrats and dictators. Fla Dem Feb 2020 #9
EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HONEST, LAW ABIDING CITIZENS---YOU'RE FIRED!! blakstoneranger Feb 2020 #10
All on taxpayers dime. djacq Feb 2020 #12
Don't turn around. Der Kommissar's in town. Marcuse Feb 2020 #14

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
4. He must be totally terrified of anyone not absolutely loyal to him...especially, career personnel
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 11:46 AM
Feb 2020

He'll surely run out of his loyalists, since so many have been charged with crimes or already in prison. There can only be so many willing to cheat for you and take the fall.

C_U_L8R

(45,026 posts)
5. GOPhascism
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 11:48 AM
Feb 2020

It's what they've been planning all along - an authoritarian's wet dream.
All they're missing are the jackboots and the deathcamps.

BigOleDummy

(2,272 posts)
8. Yep
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 01:47 PM
Feb 2020

I'm afraid of that very thing myself. Soon, if things don't change and change drastically, "disloyalty" to our chump in chief and/or his "GangOfPutins" will be enough to get us thrown into reeducation camps or worse.

Maybe when they start rounding us up people will start paying REAL attention and hit the streets. People all over the world turn out in the millions and we...... we make memes.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,177 posts)
13. Boy are you correct
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 05:33 PM
Feb 2020

with that last sentence. My position is that we may be facing the time where there is no 'painless' way out of this. Will we rise to the occasion or will we just roll over and salute? Do not ask me this question unless you want to hear unbridled cynicism...

Fla Dem

(23,806 posts)
9. And we wonder how democratic governments are taken over by autocrats and dictators.
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 01:49 PM
Feb 2020

It's the death of our democratic republic by a hundred cuts.

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