It’s fair to say that in Trump World, the standards of male behavior aren’t exceptionally high. Men in Trump’s orbit are regularly accused of horrific things, and it rarely results in any permanent banishment.
In the 2016 campaign, a married male staffer fathered a child by a female staffer, and that male staffer (Jason Miller) was allowed to return after a brief exile, and is part of the 2024 campaign. Another staffer was charged with grabbing a female reporter by the arm during the 2016 campaign and later for drunkenly groping the wife of a donor. That staffer, Corey Lewandowski, despite repeated firings, is now a high-up staffer in the Trump campaign.
Despite the many things he has been accused of, Matt Gaetz remains a Trumper in good standing. And that’s to say nothing of the things that Trump himself has been accused of and, in the case of E. Jean Carroll, found liable for.
Now, there are disturbing allegations against another Trump hanger-on, Johnny McEntee.
Teens Say John McEntee, Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up, Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats | WIRED https://t.co/ErRT3YKmrS
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 24, 2024
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According to a new report in Wired, McEntee, a former Trump White House staffer who also worked for Project 2025, “behaved in ways they considered inappropriate in online conversations,” according to two women who were 18 years old at the time of their interactions with McEntee. McEntee is currently 34 years old.
According to the report, McEntee reached out to one of the 18-year-olds in 2023 through Instagram in order to promote the conservative dating app The Right Stuff, of which he was a cofounder.
McEntee “pushed conversations in directions that made them extremely uncomfortable and invited both, one repeatedly, to visit him in Los Angeles,” the women told Wired. One of the women said she decided to come forward against McEntee after he joked about “the women Kamala Harris says are bleeding out in parking lots because Roe v. Wade was overturned,” after the presidential debate.
Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea for my #Project2025 Sturmführer Johnny McEntee to post this on the TikTok and leave the video open for people to comment, duet and stitch. pic.twitter.com/xLa60xgn5A
— Donald J. Drumpf (Parody) (@RealDonalDrumpf) September 19, 2024
Another woman told Wired that after McEntee messaged her, “the conversations took a sexually explicit turn, including repeated mentions of specific sex acts even after the young woman said she was not comfortable with this.”
A former college football player who served as a personal aide to Trump when he was president, McEntee departed in 2018 after his security clearance was denied, after he had “deposited large sums of money from online gambling winnings and had mishandled his taxes.” McEntee returned to the White House in 2020, and was described by The Atlantic as “the man who made January 6 possible.”
In addition to founding the dating app with backing from right-wing money man Peter Thiel, McEntee was one of many close to Trump who joined Project 2025, last year.
Photo via the Political Tribune photo library.
