Trump personal aide fired, rehired minutes later to work on campaign

[Travis B]

TLDR: Trump's personal aide was fired because he couldn't get a security clearance due to alleged serious financial crimes. He was then immediately re-hired to serve as an advisor for Trump's re-election campaign. You just can't make this shit up.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/polit...nce/index.html

President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing told CNN.

The charges are not related to the President, the source said.

Minutes after news of his departure broke, the Trump campaign announced McEntee would be joining the reelection effort as a senior adviser for campaign operations.

McEntee escorted from the White House on Monday, three sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. Two sources said McEntee was pushed out because of issues with his security clearance, making him just the latest aide to be forced out because of difficulties obtaining a full security clearance.

McEntee declined a CNN request to comment.

"We do not comment on personnel issues," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN in a statement.

McEntee, who joined the Trump campaign in its first months, is the latest of the President's longest-serving aides to leave or announce plans to leave the White House, following the resignation of White House communications direct Hope Hicks two weeks earlier.

McEntee served as Trump's body man during the campaign and into the White House alongside the President's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller, who left the White House last fall. The role meant McEntee was nearly constantly at the President's side.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the news of his exit.

Trump reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale announced McEntee's hire alongside that of Katrina Pierson, a Trump campaign spokesperson in 2016 who will join the 2020 campaign as a senior adviser.

"As we build out our operations for the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 reelection campaign, we are pleased to welcome back two outstanding members of our 2016 team," Parscale said in a statement. "We need the help of proven leaders such as Katrina and John to promote the President's growing portfolio of achievements across the country."

McEntee is just the latest aide to leave the White House amid issues with his security clearance, after White House chief of staff John Kelly enacted a series of reforms following the scandal involving disgraced White House staff secretary Rob Porter.

Kelly sought to limit access to classified information for aides with longstanding interim security clearances and several aides have since left the White House after it became clear their applications for a full security clearances would not be approved.

[Xeones]

No need to care for the rule of law.

[zorkuus]

He h(f)ires only the best crooks.

[Edge-]

Trump is draining the swamp not to remove the corruption, but to distill and concentrate it.

[BrerBear]

This one's going to have legs.

Next step: we find out what his financial crimes
Following step: how long did the rest of the White House know about them before firing
Dessert step: why is Trump's campaign hiring someone under investigation (AGAIN?!?)

[Edge-]

This one's going to have legs.

Next step: we find out what his financial crimes
Following step: how long did the rest of the White House know about them before firing
Dessert step: why is Trump's campaign hiring someone under investigation (AGAIN?!?)

It's amusing, because conservatives totally lost their shit when the Hillary campaign hired Wasserman Schultz after she was fired as DNC chair. Proof of how crooked she and Clinton/Democrats were etc. etc.

Wonder if that same standard will come into play here, especially considering there's an actual fucking DHS investigation into him.

[DarkTZeratul]

Wonder if that same standard will come into play here, especially considering there's an actual fucking DHS investigation into him.

Of course it won't. We have ample proof that they will ignore any and all corruption, no matter how blatant, so long as it comes from their own party.

[cubby]

TLDR: Trump's personal aide was fired because he couldn't get a security clearance due to alleged serious financial crimes. He was then immediately re-hired to serve as an advisor for Trump's re-election campaign. You just can't make this shit up.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/polit...nce/index.html

Apparently he's good with financial numbers . . . .

[Wyrt]

Only the best for the campaign.

[cubby]

It's amusing, because conservatives totally lost their shit when the Hillary campaign hired Wasserman Schultz after she was fired as DNC chair. Proof of how crooked she and Clinton/Democrats were etc. etc.

Wonder if that same standard will come into play here, especially considering there's an actual fucking DHS investigation into him.

And it's curious that it's the DHS investigating him. I thought it would be the FBI doing that kind of criminal investigation. Does espionage come into play here . . . .

[Zan15]

TLDR: Trump's personal aide was fired because he couldn't get a security clearance due to alleged serious financial crimes. He was then immediately re-hired to serve as an advisor for Trump's re-election campaign. You just can't make this shit up.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/polit...nce/index.html

Can you imagine the dirt this guy must have on trump to land a job that quick....lol

[Canpinter]

Can you imagine the dirt this guy must have on trump to land a job that quick....lol

he might not have any dirt, trump rewards loyalty (even when he REALLY shouldn't) so as long as he said the right things in an sufficiently sycophantic way hes in the clear.

[Dontrike]

I feel like the line "is this the real life or is this just fantasy" from Bohemian Rhapsody fully encapsulates this entire administration.

[Mormolyce]

Being under investigation for financial crimes of course makes him Trump's kind of guy.

[Breccia]

Who needs a security clearance to work for the Trump campaign? If it was good enough for Kushner, Bannon, Manafort, Gates, Lewandowski...

[LaserSharkDFB]

The writing for this season is getting ridiculous. Do they really think crap like this is believable?

[PosPosPos]

The writing for this season is getting ridiculous. Do they really think crap like this is believable?

I wouldn't worry about Trump, seeing as his supporters gobble up the worst sorts of evil as a plus for him.

Or that it's a "joke", "he's not serious about it", "he didn't know" or "better than liburuls anyway".

[Vankrys]

When you read the conservative news, they focus on the firing part, praising Trump for getting rid of the corrupts and criminals in the white house. #draintheswamp #maga
But they conveniently leave the part where Trump re hire him for his Trump 2020 campaign, That's totally fake news from the liberal mainstream media.

The amount of cognitive dissonance you need to be a Trump supporter is staggering.

[PosPosPos]

The amount of cognitive dissonance you need to be a Trump supporter is staggering.

Yeah, you basically can't be a Trump supporter if you don't have a talent for psyching yourself into passing off eating shit as the bestest bigly chocolate in the world.