White House weighs rehiring fired Trump aide McEntee

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

Senior White House officials are mulling bringing President Donald Trump’s personal aide and body man John McEntee back into the administration just days after he was abruptly escorted out of the West Wing.

White House chief of staff John Kelly told aides during a Friday morning senior staff meeting that there are tentative discussions about finding a role for McEntee in the administration, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The person added that Kelly and others in the West Wing believe McEntee has been unfairly maligned in the media.

A second administration official and a person close to the White House confirmed that aides have talked about rehiring McEntee, though it’s unclear how advanced those discussions are.

White House aides were shocked when McEntee, one of Trump’s most trusted aides, was let go earlier this week. In a sign of his status with the president, he was immediately hired as a senior adviser for Trump’s reelection campaign.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/17/john-mcentee-white-house-return-trump-468674

[Lindsay]

1. "Unfairly maligned in the media"?

As far as I know, nobody'd even heard of the guy until he was fired.

There's gotta be an excuse dart board in the White House, is the only thing I can figure.

[Me.]

2. Well Doesn't That Just Say It All

[MBS]

11. " " " " n/t

[dalton99a]

3. Why not - his gambling habit has been miraculously cured -

and they still have his jacket

[njhoneybadger]

4. Songbird gonna sing

[Iggo]

7. A-yup.

[Iggo]

5. Someone kept a diary.

(Anyone not writing everything down, after finding out about Comey's memos to himself, is a complete idiot.)

[Maeve]

6. Did he get security clearance DESPITE his high-profile gambling?

If so, why? If not, why do they think they can have him back?

Edited to add that WashPost sez he supposedly lost his security clearance, so this should really be a non-starter

[SummerSnow]

8. Gotta keep him close, he knows too much

[jgmiller]

9. The firing was correct then

a WH lawyer pointed out he can't claim executive privilege if he isn't actually working for the executive branch.

[lapfog_1]

10. The rumor is that he makes under $100k as the bodyman to the President

but that he lost $100s of thousands in online gambling.

So... where did he get the money to gamble? Loan sharks? people that wanted access to the president? maybe doing some spying for a foreign power?

[n2doc]

12. Has to be offshore

Vegas won't lend those kinds of amounts.

Or the Mob may have done so....

[lapfog_1]

13. my guess is more russian mob ties.

and he was introduced to them by... one of the trump crime family.

[MaryMagdaline]

15. Not to worry. Russian mobsters never touch gamblers

[marble falls]

14. He's given us chaos and change. Now we're to get "wha......?", as in:

"We're hiring back McEntee!"