The Man Who Made January 6 Possible
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Will Steakin
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.@jonkarl has the "deeply flawed" memo Trump's body guy turned "deputy president" texted to Pence’s CoS on Jan 1 to convince Pence to overturn the election:
"Rather than investigating, Jefferson ignored the problems and announced himself the winner"
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal/620646/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share…
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9:43 AM · Nov 9, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal/620646/
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https://archive.ph/oxnQG
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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.”
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.
When Trump wasn’t happy with the answers he was getting from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, McEntee set up a rogue legal team. This back-channel operation played a previously unknown role in the effort to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the vote. Just days before January 6, McEntee sent Pence’s office an absurd memo making the case that Pence would be following Thomas Jefferson’s example if he used his power to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election.
More than anyone else in the White House, McEntee was Trump’s man through and through—a man who rose to power at precisely the moment when American democracy was falling apart.
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Kushner had always been the back-channel guy for Chump's 4 years in office. However he must have seen the light after Chump lost in November. It seems that Jared and Ivanka packed their bags and left the White House when the election was over.
That left a void in Chump's evil revenge operation, and Johnny McEntee stepped in to take over. If this guy doesn't get smacked down (charged with sedition, tried and convicted) he'll become the next generation's Roger Stone. I guarantee it.
From the article: "Chief of Staff John Kelly after a long-delayed FBI background check revealed that he had deposited suspiciously large sums of money into his bank account. It turned out that the money was from gambling winnings." So the Republicans gave him a freaking promotion.
so the Republicans worship a Casino Hustler, get oodles of stinky Big Bucks from Sheldon A-hole Gambler in Las Vegas, install another gambler as TFG's obedient Bag Man, and then launch their "We are the Family Party" bullshit this week.
You can BET that is just another massive Republican crock of shit.
