If you think you know how bad things were during Trump's final year in office, check this out. It is absolutely mind-blowing, though not surprising.
Many people (stupidly) voted for Trump for his business and management skills, which most people who paid attention knew he didn't possess in any quantity. Trump himself boasted that his awesome skills would bring into government "the best people".
No, they did not. Duh.
In late october 2020, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was attending the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett when his cellphone rang. He answered with a whisper and walked out to the hallway to take the call. What was so urgent as to pull the chief of staff out of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing just two weeks before a presidential election?
On the line was Andrew Hughes, the top staffer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meadows had asked him to call because it had been brought to Meadows’s attention that a young assistant at HUD had been caught consorting with the enemy.
She had liked an Instagram post from the pop star Taylor Swift.
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Those enforcers—including the eagle-eyed official who had first spotted the offending “like”—worked for the Presidential Personnel Office, a normally under-the-radar group responsible for the hiring and firing of the roughly 4,000 political appointees in the executive branch. During the final year of the Trump administration, that office was transformed into an internal police force, obsessively monitoring administration officials for any sign of dissent, purging those who were deemed insufficiently devoted to Trump and frightening others into silence.
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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.”
Why does the word Gestapo keep coming to my mind?
Seriously, read the whole article and marvel at how stupid, incompetent, and terrifying this situation was, how it turbo-charged 01/06, and understand that if Trump is alive, free, and re-elected in 2024, we are all doomed.
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