Trump official McEntee testifies about drawing up troop withdrawal directive, installing loyalists
Daily MailTestimony by former White House personnel official Johnny McEntee reveals how he went suddenly from Donald Trump 'body man' to running an office that helped draft a directive ordering troop withdrawals and installed loyalists at the Pentagon. As Director of the Presidential Personnel Office, Johnny McEntee helped oversee a memo spelling out reason to fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper. McEntee describes the drafting of a list of reasons to fire Pentagon chief Mark Esper Esper apologized for taking part in a Trump photo-op in Lafayette Square in June 2020 Esper 'publicly opposed the President's direction to utilize American forces to put down riots just outside the White House in Nation's capital, limiting the President's decision space,' according for a memo on reasons to fire him McEntee was pressed on the effort to force out Pentagon Secretary Mark Esper, who Trump 'terminated' two days after the election – in a shakeup that the January 6 committee probed as part of the transfer of power. Trump promoted McEntee to make him Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office His office also helped install Kash Patel in the role of Miller's chief of staff.
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