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Close aides believed Trump had crossed a psychological line during his Senate trial. He now wanted to get even; he wanted to fire every single last "snake" inside his government. To activate the plan for revenge, Trump turned to a young take-no-prisoners loyalist with chutzpah: his former aide John McEntee.
By the end of that year, Trump also had a second tool in his armory, a secret weapon with the innocuous title, "Schedule F." The intention of this obscure legal instrument was to empower the president to wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of civil servants across the federal government.
The mission for McEntee and the power of Schedule F dovetailed in the lead-up to the 2020 election as Trump planned (but lost) a second term and fumed over perceived foes.
If former President Trump runs again in 2024 and wins back the White House, people close to him say, he would turn to both levers again. It is Schedule F, combined with the willpower of top lieutenants like McEntee, that could bring Trump closer to his dream of gutting the federal bureaucracy and installing thousands devoted to him or his "America First" platform.
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Today, according to John McEntee, he has the title: Senior Advisor, Project 2025:
“I work for the Heritage Foundation on their Project 2025, which is in charge of staffing the next administration should Trump win.”
And, in case you were wondering, John McEntee’s previous gig:
After Kelly was dismissed in December 2018, Donald Trump rehired McEntee and named him Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in February 2020.
Schedule F — Created out of whole cloth, for a brief time, by a Trump Executive Order — at the instruction of his advisors (presumably, given Trump’s disdain for research and even reading). President Biden repealed this Order, once he took over the Office.
A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the Trump administration during 2020 and 2021. It would have contained policy-related positions, removing their civil service protections and making them easy to fire. It was never fully implemented, and no one was appointed to it before it was repealed at the beginning of the Biden administration.
The purpose of the provision was to increase the president's control over the federal career civil service. While proponents stated this would increase flexibility and accountability, it was widely criticized as providing means to retaliate against federal officials for political reasons. It was estimated that tens or hundreds of thousands of career employees could have lost their civil service protections, increasing the number of political appointments by a factor of ten.
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Planning
According to reporting by Axios, the idea for the Schedule F appointment was devised by James Sherk, a member of the advisory Domestic Policy Council who was seeking ways to prevent career civil service employees from resisting President Trump's agenda. In January 2019, while searching through Title 5 of the United States Code, which contains provisions on civil service protections, he came across 5 U.S.C. § 7511, and brought it to the attention of the White House Counsel's Office.[1]
The executive order was drafted secretly over the following months and was completed by late spring of 2019. However, due to large agency workloads, it was decided to delay issuing it until 2020, which was further delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump was reportedly motivated by a desire to get even with recalcitrant officials after his first impeachment trial, which concluded in February 2020.[1]
Implementation
Schedule F was created by Executive Order 13957 on October 21, 2020.[17] Heads of all federal agencies were ordered to submit a preliminary list of positions that could be reclassified as Schedule F by January 19, 2021, the day before the next presidential inauguration, to John D. McEntee, the director of the Presidential Personnel Office,[24][20]: 8 with the final list to be submitted on May 19, 2021.[20]: 8
John McEntee presumably, took this tentative “list of positions” — ripe for “F” reclassification — with him to his new “Senior Advisor” role with Project 2025. No doubt, all this was cleared with NARA beforehand, given their penchant for following “deep state” rules, laws, and regulations and stuff [/snark].
Charming, eh? No wonder Trump put him in charge of his “Deep State Revenge” task force. Birds of a feather ...
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Why are we talking about John McEntee? Here's why. That guy is a Senior Advisor for Project 2025. Specifically an Advisor to the Presidential Personnel Database, a project to staff the White House in the event Trump wins in November; which means the grifting, gambling henchmen who was too much of a security issue for the Trump Administration is going to be the guy vetting Resumes the second time around. Is that someone you want in charge of the most important Personnel Office in the country?
Gotta love that “prank” he pulls on the Homeless, using counterfeit bills. What a Saint!
John McEntee is
just the guy to put the “
creep” back into their ‘Crypt-keeper’ Revenge tour.
Watch out for him, democracy fans.
Because he will certainly be scoping out us, should his Team win — by hook or by crook.
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Democracy is buried in there, somewhere.
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www.democracydocket.com — protecting our most fundamental right — the right to Vote.
Vote.gov — Are you registered to Vote? How to get registered to Vote?
Elections Threats Taskforce — Protect Election workers from harassment.
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