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The Biggest Purge Yet Is About to Happen: All Govt Employees Must Be 100% Loyal to Trump

Other presidents look for stability and will seek out the absolute best personnel available to do the job, sure that their highest calling is doing the best job possible, and hope that being “best” results in being reelected.

Not Donald Trump.

Trump seeks out the absolute most loyal personnel and it doesn’t matter if it is someone far worse at the job. Trump will fire “the best people” if they’re not the most loyal people.

Okay, we knew all that already.

But a new report from the NYT states that the White House has just installed a newly minted, 29 year old (must be a loyal guy) White House Personnel Director, and a purge like no other is coming in the next few weeks.

Johnny McEntee, a 29-year-old loyalist just installed to take over the Office of Presidential Personnel, is instructing “departments to search for people not devoted to the president so they can be removed,” the Times notes that just because a staffer is a Republican in good standing doesn’t mean that won’t be booted.

If you needed any more evidence that the GOP is dead, there you have it. You can be supreme GOP allied commander and the Trump administration doesn’t care. If you’re not in the “Trump party,” you are about to be fired.

“In some of the most critical corners of the Trump administration, officials show up for work now never entirely sure who will be there by the end of the evening — themselves included,” The report begins. “Even for an administration that has been a revolving door since Day 1, this has become a season of turmoil. At a moment when first-term presidents are typically seeking a stable team to focus on their re-election, President Trump has embarked on a systematic attempt to sweep out officials perceived to be disloyal.”

It is my opinion that this purge has been kicked-off by impeachment. Trump has always been paranoid. He’s always “demanded loyalty” above all else. But he’s never had the life scared out of him by a whistleblower report and an investigation before. He intends to ensure that there’s never one instance, ever again, where a “non-loyalist” will ever be near enough to hear or see anything secretive ever again.

“Mr. Trump has long been obsessed with loyalty, a view only exacerbated by his impeachment and the various investigations over the last three years that have convinced him that he is surrounded by a deep-state enemy within that is leaking, lying and sabotaging his presidency,” the report states.

It never once occurs to him that HIS lying and HIS disloyal actions are what is sabotaging his presidency. Never crosses his mind that he’s doing anything “imperfect.”

He is going to surround himself with people that can hear him speak to Vladimir Putin on the phone and say: “Yes, Mr. Putin, yes – I hear you, I will make that change right away, sir. I will make sure it is done just like you’ve ordered.” And those people will only nod, knowing Trump is the best at Making America Great Again, and so this must be how it’s done.

Trump is closing out some of the last hope we’ve all ever had about forcing him out of office one way or another. The presumption has always been that there were “things” out there that even Trump couldn’t survive becoming public, and they could break on any given day.

Trump is heading them off on two fronts. Firing everyone who might be the type to leak those things, and also teaching his Fox audience to not trust anything coming out of anyone’s mouth that is negative about him.

The Republican party’s refusal to reckon with itself and be honest with itself led to its death. There is no GOP now, it’s the Trumplican party through and through. Now we all get to suffer the consequences.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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