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March 4, 2020

White House to Require Trump Loyalty Test for Political Appointees
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CNN reports that Trump's new personnel chief is distributing
questionnaires to potential political appointees to verify their loyalty
to the president. As part of the Trump "litmus test," candidates must
explain what part of Trump's campaign "most appealed" to them. The
campaign to identify and purge anti-Trump staffers is being led by
29-year-old John Mc Entee, whom Trump recently appointed head of the
Presidential Personnel Office. Before he was rehired this year, Mc Entee
was fired in 2018 by then-Chief of Staff John Kelly because he was under
federal investigation for financial crimes.


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