Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : Trump has maintained that Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, was actually an event filled with "love."
60% : That team is led by Sergio Gor, who has helped run the publishing company that produces Trump's books and ran a multimillion-dollar super political action committee that supported Trump.
56% : At the time, Trump brought back into the White House his close aide and "body man," John McEntee, to serve as his loyalty cop.
43% : Trump demanded to know how someone such as Kent, who would offer unflattering testimony, could be working in his government.
38% : McEntee had no experience in government hiring, but Trump appointed him in early 2020 to take over the powerful presidential personnel office -- giving him the specific task of finding and firing the "snakes.
32% : Many of the people who worked for Trump in his first term and, to a lesser extent, those entering his next administration have said something critical about him at some point in time, given his hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016.
31% : Three of the people interviewed are close to the transition team and confirmed that loyalty questions were part of some interviews across multiple agencies, and that the Trump team researched what candidates had said about Trump on the day of the Capitol riot and in the days after.
24% : Trump had grown convinced that the "deep state" was out to get him during his first impeachment trial, which focused on his effort to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the son of his political rival, Joe Biden.
20% : The Trump transition team appears to be trying to figure out whether prospective hires have ever shown a hint of daylight between themselves and Trump on specific issues, particularly as he tried to revise the history of his final weeks in office and its aftermath.
18% : Trump has told advisers that his biggest regret from his first term was appointing "traitors," some of whom came to view him as a threat to democracy.
14% : Trump's pick for secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., once described Trump as a "con artist" who couldn't be trusted with the nuclear codes.
12% : Barr is a staunch conservative who satisfied Trump right up until the final weeks of his presidency, when he refused to use the Justice Department to help Trump overturn the 2020 election.
7% : Vice President-elect JD Vance once called himself a "Never Trump guy" and said Trump was "unfit" for the office.
1% : He has singled out for especially harsh attacks his chief of staff, John Kelly, who has called Trump a fascist; his defense secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper; and his attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and William Barr.

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