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The White House Office of Presidential Personnel is responsible for vetting and selecting candidates for political appointments within the U.S. government, including positions that require Senate confirmation. It plays a crucial role in ensuring that the president has qualified individuals in key roles across the Executive Branch.

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Overview of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel

The White House Office of Presidential Personnel (PPO) is a key component of the Executive Office of the President. Its primary responsibility is to vet and select candidates for political appointments within the U.S. government. This includes positions that require Senate confirmation.

Key Responsibilities

Vetting Candidates: The PPO assesses candidates to ensure they meet the qualifications and integrity standards necessary for public service.
Political Appointments: The office manages the appointment process for approximately 4,000 political positions across various federal agencies.
Collaboration: It works closely with department heads and White House liaisons to fill both presidential and non-presidential appointments.

Structure of the Office

Position	Name
Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel	Dan Scavino
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel	Trent Morse
Special Assistant to the President	Saurabh Sharma
Special Assistant to the President	Brand Kroeger

Importance of the PPO

The PPO plays a crucial role in shaping the administration by ensuring that the president has qualified individuals in key roles. This office is essential for maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of the federal government.

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## White House Presidential Personnel Office Explained

The White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), sometimes written as Office of Presidential Personnel, is the part of the White House Office tasked with vetting new appointees. [1] [2] Its offices are on the first floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. [2] The PPO is one of the offices most responsible for assessing candidates to work at or for the White ...

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The White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), sometimes written as Office of Presidential Personnel, is the part of the White House Office tasked with vetting new appointees. [1][2] Its offices are on the first floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. [2] The PPO is one of the offices most responsible for assessing candidates to work at or for the White ...

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Oct 12, 2025President Donald Trump tapped White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino to lead the White House Presidential Personnel Office while keeping his current role.

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Other senior White House roles

There are a number of senior White House roles, but here are a few of the key positions that will likely play an outsized role in shaping the president’s agenda:

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James Blair, deputy chief of staff: Blair was the political director on Trump’s presidential campaign and as a deputy chief of staff will focus on legislative, political and public affairs.

Taylor Budowich, deputy chief of staff: Budowich ran Trump’s main super PAC, MAGA Inc., before joining the campaign. He is a trusted lieutenant of Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and will focus on communications and personnel.

Dan Scavino, deputy chief of staff: Scavino was a senior adviser on Trump’s presidential campaign and a longtime top social media aide and confidante to Trump.

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff: Miller was also a senior advisor on Trump’s presidential campaign and is his top immigration adviser and speechwriter. Miller will focus on homeland security.

Steven Cheung, communications director: Cheung was a top communications adviser on Trump’s presidential campaign and will now serve as his communications director in the White House.

William McGinley, White House counsel: McGinley previously served as the White House Cabinet secretary under Trump and as general counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. This role is expected to be central in the incoming president’s plan to expand executive authority.

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The New York Times reported Monday afternoon that at least 40 subpoenas have been filed for allies of former President Donald Trump over the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election using the fake electors.

At least two of Trump's top advisers had their phones taken by the FBI, sources told the Times.Boris Epshteyn, a Russian-American Republican political strategist who served as a strategic adviser to Trump's 2020 campaign was one of those who had to surrender his phone. The other was Mike Romanan opposition researcher who worked for Trump from 2017 to 2018. He went on to work on the campaign, and became the person who handed off the envelope of fake electors to be given to Vice President Mike Pence.

The Times described it as an indication that the Justice Department's case is escalating after slow movement for the past several months.

Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director is also among those who got a subpoena from the case.

Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was another subpoenaed. He was on the team with Rudy Giuliani and helping with the so-called "war room" on Jan. 6 at the Willard Hotel.

Some of the information, the Times explained, was asking about activities around theSave America PAC,which has been the main source of funding for Trump since leaving office.

Read the full report here.

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Former Trump White House trade advisor Peter Navarro was initially scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s The Beaton Tuesday, March 29. However, that appearance was abruptly canceled following the House Select Committee's vote on Monday in favor of holding Navarro in contempt of Congress for his failure to cooperate with the Jan. 6 investigation.

Sharing the news with viewers, MSNBC host Ari Melber said, “Late today, [Navarro] then indicated he could not do an interview tonight."

While the exact reason for Navarro's cancellation remains unclear, there is speculation that it may be due to the House's reference to a previous Navarro appearance on Melber's show. Back in February, Navarro became embroiled in a heated debate with Melber and made remarks that ultimately conflicted with his assertion of executive privilege.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) highlighted the discrepency.

“[Navarro] has so much knowledge to share with a journalist, but he refuses to share that knowledge in response to a lawful subpoena,” Murphy said. “Evidently, Mr. Navarro is only concerned with executive privilege with keeping certain matters confidential when it’s convenient to him.”

In addition to speaking out about his involvement during the last MSNBC appearance, Navarro also shared a pertinent piece of information with The Daily Beast. Back in December of last year, Navarro detailed the “Green Bay Sweep” strategy he and former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon had laid out in hopes of keeping Trump in office.

“We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them,” Navarro told The Beast. “It was a perfect plan. And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.

The committee is now recommending charges for both Navarro and Dan Scavino, who served as former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for the Trump administration.

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In January 2017, my colleague Matt Gertz wrote a piece titled “What Journalists Can Do When The President Is A Liar” in which he urged the press to rethink the way presidents are covered in the context of President-elect Donald Trump:

Journalists typically treat presidential statements as both newsworthy and generally trustworthy until proven otherwise. Trump is hardly the first president to dissimulate. But unlike his predecessors, Trump does not lie strategically or rarely. He lies habitually, on matters great and small. By following their typical practice and reporting the president-elect’s comments as both factual and significant, reporters are doing a disservice to their audience, which is left with the impression that what Trump has said is both true and substantive.

Since taking office, Trump has continued to lie about all manner of things, whether it be his false claim that The New York Times sent a letter to subscribers apologizing for negative coverage of his campaign, his wild exaggerations on the size of the crowd at his inauguration, or the more recent and much more consequential laundry list of lies he’s shared about the COVID-19 pandemic this year. The Washington Post’s count of Trump’s lies as president crossed the 20,000 mark on July 9.

Trump was not changed by the office upon his swearing-in, and unfortunately, neither was the press.

Throughout all of this, mainstream media organizations have continued to offer the same level of deference to Trump as they have previous presidents, boosting his objectively false statements on social media and in stories, often without noting that what he said wasn’t true. This is precisely what Gertz was warning against in his 2017 post. Now, this uncritical amplification of Trump’s misinformation comes at a time when the press needs more than ever to shore up its standing as society’s fourth estate, a bulwark against antidemocratic authoritarianism. Instead, this failure of the press has enabled a truly destructive reelection campaign strategy.

With Trump’s potential reelection just weeks away, he and his supporters have ramped up disinformation efforts well aware that there’s no one willing to stop them.

In March, for the first time, Twitter slapped a “manipulated media” label on something tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by Trump. The tweet included a video of Democratic nominee Joe Biden making what seemed to be an accidental endorsement of Trump.

“Excuse me. We can only reelect Donald Trump,” Biden says in the edited clip, omitting the second half of his statement. “Excuse me. We can only reelect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here. It’s got to be a positive campaign,” he says in the full video.

On August 29, Trump ally and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) shared a video on Twitter that edited the words said during an interview with Biden by activist Ady Barkan, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and uses assistive technology to speak. Scalise added the words “for police” to a question Barkan asked about funding things that might mitigate crime such as social services and mental health counseling. The goal of Scalise’s deceptive editing was to make it seem as though Biden was in favor of defunding the police, a position he has repeatedly said he does not support.

Twitter again added a “manipulated media” flag to Scalise’s tweet following backlash. Scalise later took the post down, but stood by the video.

On August 30, Scavino shared another edited clip. In this one, the clip superimposed an image of Biden over footage from a 2011 interview between a Bakersfield, California-based news show and actor Harry Belafonte. This was edited together with a snoring sound effect to make it look as though Biden had fallen asleep in the middle of a TV appearance, though this obviously was not true. Twitter again applied the “manipulated media” flag to the post, leaving it up. It wasn’t until the video’s copyright holder filed a takedown request that Twitter removed the post altogether.

Belafonte said of Scavino’s use of that clip, “They keep stooping lower and lower. A technical glitch in an interview I did 9 years ago now becomes another one of their lies, more of their fake news. I beg every sane American-please vote them out. I knew many who gave their life for the right to vote. Never has it been so vital to exercise that right.”

On August 31, Trump’s campaign tweeted a clip of Biden saying, “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” a complete distortion of what Biden actually said: “Since they have no agenda or vision for a second term, Trump and Pence are running on this, and I find it fascinating. 'You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America.’ And what's their proof? The violence we're seeing in Donald Trump's America.”

Yet again, Twitter slapped the “manipulated media” label to the post, but not before the video had racked up hundreds of thousands of views. Later, the campaign defended the post, tweeting, “To all the triggered journalists who can’t take a joke about their candidate, it’s not our fault Joe Biden was dumb enough to say this on camera.”

The press and tech companies need to incentivize truthfulness, and that means ensuring that the political and social cost of lying outweighs the benefits.

Would the Trump campaign have posted the deceptively edited clip of Biden if there was a chance that its entire account would be suspended from the platform? Would Trump have repeatedly claimed that just 6% of COVID deaths were actually because of COVID if newspapers and nightly news broadcasts insisted on doing more than just quickly noting that what he said wasn’t true and moving on?

It used to be treated as a scandal when the public learned of an instance of the president lying to the American people, but now it’s just an accepted fact of daily life that something the president says to us today will likely turn out to be untrue. If the press had taken Trump’s candidacy seriously, holding him to the same standards as other candidates, it’s possible he wouldn’t have ever become president. Had journalists stopped offering Trump the benefit of the doubt, he would have been forced to either lie less often or face a barrage of nonstop criticism for his dishonesty. Fact-checking is important, but we’re beyond the point of simply being able to correct our way out of the situation the world is in. Fact checks can’t simply be something brought up in a single segment squeezed between hours of uninterrupted lies, and it cannot be something that gets siloed into its own separate section of news coverage.

The many lies of Trump’s presidency have been enabled by the press and by social media companies afraid to take real action to stop the spread of false information. As November’s election approaches, it’s become clear that disinformation is no longer a tactic for his campaign, but the tactic. The extent to which that tactic will be successful will depend on whether the press is willing to cover his campaign the way it should have all along, and if tech and social media companies are willing to hold him and his allies to the same standards as every other user.

In July, Trump wrongly claimed that Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) issued a document outlining a plan “to abolish our police departments.” In June, he shared a deceptively edited video made to look like a CNN segment. In May, he lied about a “rogue Secretary of State” in Michigan sending 7.7 million absentee ballots to voters across the state. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and who he will always be.

Trump and his allies keep telling lies, and they will continue to do so as long as the benefits of lying outweigh the costs. It’s because of a deferential news media and timid social media companies that the cost of telling blatant lies remains so low. If the worst thing to come of a manipulated Twitter video is a tiny label applied to a tweet long after its engagement has already peaked, it makes perfect sense to continue to spread increasingly brazen false claims and deceptive footage in hopes of influencing voters’ actions.

Once you’ve hit 20,000 lies, what are a few more on the pile?

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Reporter Ashley Parker, in an article published in the Washington Post over Labor Day Weekend, discusses some of the ways in which President Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies have been aggressively promoting disinformation — from “doctored and misleading videos” to bogus conspiracy theories.

For example, Parker notes, Trump recently “retweeted footage of a black man violently pushing a white woman on a subway platform under the caption, ‘Black Lives Matter/Antifa’ — but the man was not affiliated with either group, and the video was shot in October (2019).” And according to Parker, “White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino shared a manipulated video that falsely showed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden seeming to fall asleep during a television interview, complete with a fake TV headline.”

In addition to those things, Parker notes thatHouse Minority Whip Steve Scalise — a Louisiana Republican and Trump ally — “released a video splicing together quotes from activist Ady Barkan — who has Lou Gehrig’s disease and uses computer voice assistance — to falsely make it sound as if he had persuaded Biden to defund police departments.”

Whitney Phillips, a communications professor at Syracuse University, told the Post, “When you have this disinformation and it’s introduced to one side of the forest, for example, it can travel so quickly through so many different communities and does so many unintentional things before you can even do a fact-check. He’s able to muddy the waters so thoroughly that democracy wilts on the vine."

trump, Parker points out, has “repeated a false claim that just 6% of the nation’s death toll” in the coronavirus pandemic “was actually caused by the novel coronavirus itself — part of his ongoing effort to portray the virus as less deadly or pervasive than it actually is.” That conspiracy theory has been promoted by QAnon and has no basis in reality, but that hasn’t prevented Trump and other Republicans from promoting it.

Trump is hardly the first candidate to play hardball during a presidential race. From President Lyndon B. Johnson’s infamous “daisy ad” of 1964 to President George H.W. Bush’s racist Willie Horton ad of 1988 to the Swift Boat Veterans ads that helped President George W. Bush defeat Democrat John Kerry in 2004, presidential candidates — both Democrats and Republicans — have dealt some harsh blows to their rivals over the years. But Lily Adams, a Democratic National Committee senior adviser, argues that Trump’s campaign is taking disinformation to another level.

Adams told the Post, “Spin has been something that folks in politics have come to expect,but this is the invention of a totally new reality. Because they can’t run on the reality that every American is seeing, they’re inventing a new one.”

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With Push From Trump, Senate Moves to Install Contentious Filmmaker at U.S. Media Agency

A key Senate committee has scheduled a vote on the long-stalled nomination of Michael Pack, an ally of Stephen K. Bannon, to run the agency in charge of the Voice of America. Employees are worried.

The Voice of America studio in Washington. Voice of America is the largest American international broadcaster.

The Voice of America studio in Washington. Voice of America is the largest American international broadcaster.Credit...Jason Andrew for The New York Times

By Catie Edmondson and Edward Wong

May 8, 2020

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders, under pressure from President Trump to install an ally who would dictate more favorable news coverage of his administration, are moving to swiftly confirm a conservative filmmaker to lead the independent agency in charge of state-funded media outlets.

Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has scheduled a committee meeting next week to advance the long-stalled nomination of Michael Pack, aclose ally of Stephen K. Bannon’s and a favorite of conservative activists, to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

The action came after Mr. Trump pressed Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, during a recent call to speed up Mr. Pack’s nomination, according to three people familiar with the private conversation who discussed it on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Trump’s personal intervention to push through his favored nominee illustrates his determination to install a sympathetic figure at the parent agency of broadcasters, which includes the Voice of America, the largest American international broadcaster and one that has recently provoked his ire.

At a news conference last month, the president said the Senate’s failure to confirm Mr. Pack was “preventing us from managing the Voice of America.”

“If you hear what’s coming out of the Voice of America, it’s disgusting,” he said. “The things they say are disgusting toward our country. And Michael Pack would get in and do a great job.”

The week before, the White House had lobbed an unusual broadside against the V.O.A., falsely accusing the United States-funded foreign broadcaster of parroting Chinese propaganda in its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Trump’s social media director called it a “disgrace.”

The president singled out Mr. Pack’s nomination as part of a tirade about the Senate’s failure to confirm his nominees, in which he fumed about Democratic opposition to his chosen candidates and threatened to use a never-before-used presidential power to adjourn Congress himself so he could unilaterally install them. Mr. McConnell has since opened the Senate up for business — even as Congress’s top doctor said reconvening carried health risks — telling colleagues on their first day back that he would look to “move qualified nominees who have been held up for too long already.”

“The Senate will be acting on key nominations that relate directly to the safety of the American people, oversight of our coronavirus legislation, and more,” Mr. McConnell said.

A spokesman for Mr. McConnell said that the majority leader and Mr. Trump “talk all the time” but that the office does not give details on their conversations. A spokesman for the White House declined to comment on the call regarding Mr. Pack.

Democrats who have long opposed Mr. Pack’s nomination argued that it was inappropriate to convene to consider business unrelated to the novel coronavirus, particularly someone they called “a controversial political nominee.”...

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Scavino: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

By Daniel S. Levine

Updated Dec 22, 2016

Over the July 4 2016 weekend, the Donald Trump campaign came under fire for sending out a tweet many considered anti-Semitic as it called Hillary Clinton the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” with the text in the shape of a Star of David. Trump and his social media director, Dan Scavino, defended the message, insisting that it was supposed to look like a sheriff’s badge. Nevertheless, they still removed the original tweet and replaced it with a meme that included the text in a circle.

Scavino was the target of Twitter critics on October 25, 2016 after he praised Newt Gingrich’s performance in a strange interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, where Gingrich accused Kelly of being “fascinated by sex” when she talks about the growing list of women accusing Trump of sexually assaulting them. “Watch what happens to her after this election is over,” Scavino wrote.

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.@NewtGingrich just destroyed @MegynKelly. Shows she is totally biased against Mr. Trump & not very smart. Mr. Trump has long known!!

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.@MegynKelly made a total fool out of herself tonight- attacking @realDonaldTrump. Watch what happens to her after this election is over.

Scavino was hired by the Trump campaign in February as the social media director, but his ties to Trump run deep. Since Trump became President-Elect Trump, Scavino was added to the Presidential Transition Team’s Staff Leadership. On December 22, Trump hired Scavino as an Assistant to the President and Director of Social Media, once Trump is elected.

Here’s a look at his career and the current Twitter controversy.

1. Trump Campaign Says Clinton Surrogates are Linking the Meme with Anti-Semitism

In a statement issued on July 4, Trump and Scavino insisted that the connection between the meme and anti-Semitism was made by Clinton and her surrogates. “Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband,” the statement read.

Part of the statement was credited to come directly from Scavino, who admitted to taking the tweet from an anti-Clinton Twitter account. Scavino wrote:

The sheriff’s badge – which is available under Microsoft’s “shapes” – fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it.

As the Social Media Director for the campaign, I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image.

Clinton’s team did issue a statement, calling the meme a “blatantly anti-Semitic image.”

Mic traced the meme to a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and white supremacists message board called “/pol/,” which no longer exists, but was accessible through Archive.is. The image then surfaced on Twitter, with the account name “@fishbonehead1” in the bottom right-hand corner. The account no longer exists.

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Scavino First Encountered Trump in the Early 1990s & Was His Caddie

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Scavino is a longtime Trump employee, going back to the early 1990s. According to his LinkedIn account, Scavino worked summers and weekends at the Briar Hall Country Club golf course in Westchester County, New York, beginning at age 16. Trump later bought it and renamed it Trump National Golf Club. Scavino wrote on LinkedIn that he was Trump’s caddie when he would play at the golf course.

Scavino graduated from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1998 with a B.A. in communications.

After a few years at Coca-Cola Enterprises and Galderma Laboratories, Scavino returned to the Trump fold. Trump hired him to be assistant manager at Trump National in 2004, then promoted him to general manager in 2006 and then executive vice president in 2007.

“I always knew Dan was going to run the club one day,” Trump told told Golf Magazine, which named Scavino one of the Most Admired Operators of 2009.

3. He Worked for Joe Torre’s Foundation Before Joining The Trump Campaign

Scavino left Trump in March 2013 and a few months later, he began working at the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, according to his LinkedIn page. He remained with the foundation as Director of Development until April 2015. At that point, he was asked to be an advisor for Trump’s campaign, although it wasn’t until February that Scavino was publicly named Trump’s social media director.

Scavino is also on the board of directors of The Eric Trump Foundation, a charity set up by Trump’s son that helps fund St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

After leaving Torre‘s foundation, he planned to create a public relations firm.However, the site is dormant and only has a picture of the Manhattan skyline.

He Once Said His Wife Told Him He Sounds Like Trump

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Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Phoenix, Arizona. (Getty)

In a Hudson Valley Magazine interview, Scavino said that some people – including his wife – will tell him that he sounds like his boss.

“That’s funny, my wife and some of my employees sometimes say, ‘You sound like Donald.’ I just have a passion of wanting to succeed,” Scavino said. “He just has this karma that rubs off on you, this positive energy of everything is great and it truly is.”

In the same interview, he described what President Bill Clinton is like.

“He is one of the most unbelievable people I’ve ever met, as far as charisma. He has a tremendous personality and he’ll play with anybody,” Scavino said. “He plays with Donald and he too loves the game of golf. He always claims that this is his favorite golf course and he knows every nook and cranny of it.”

Scavino’s wife is Jewish, so he called allegations that he is anti-Semitic “AWFUL.”

@DanScavino

For the MSM to suggest that I am antisemite is AWFUL. I proudly celebrate holidays w/ my wife's amazing Jewish family for the past 16 years.

Trump Also Hired New Media Director Justin McConney

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Donald Trump appears at an NBC Town Hall in New York City. (Getty)

Scavino isn’t the only member of the Trump team overseeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s media presence. As Fortune points out, Trump also has Trump Organization New Media Director Justin McConney to help out.

“Justin McConney has his ear to the social media world, and he’s ahead of the curve,” former Trump political advisor Sam Nunberg told Politico in September 2015. “He’s innovative, well-connected and always thinking about how to push the envelope.”

McConney came in after Nunberg was fired by the Trump campaign over allegedly racist posts on Trump’s Facebook page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Scavino

Daniel Scavino Jr. (born January 15, 1976^[1]) is the White House Director of Social Media and Assistant to the President. ^[2]^ ^His appointment was announced on December 22, 2016.^[3] Previously he was the general manager of Trump National Golf Club Westchester and the director of social media for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016.

Early life

Scavino is the descendant of Italian immigrants who came to the United States in the early 20th century.^[4]

In 1992, Scavino was selected caddie for Trump's golf party at Briar Hall Country Club (later renamed Trump National Golf Club Westchester). He graduated from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1998 with a B.A. in communications. Scavino worked a few years at Coca-Cola Enterprises and Galderma Laboratories before being promoted to general manager of Trump National Golf Club Westchester.^[5]

In a May 2009 interview, Scavino praised former president Bill Clinton, calling him "one of the most unbelievable people I’ve ever met, as far as charisma."^[6]

Trump presidential campaign:

Scavino was involved with Donald Trump's presidential campaign since it began in June 2015. In February 2016, Trump appointed Scavino as the campaign's director of social media. Over July 4, 2016 weekend, controversy arose when Trump's Twitter account posted an image selected by Scavino of Hillary Clinton with a text in the shape of a Star of David calling her the "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever." The image had originally appeared on an anti-Semitic, white supremacist message board. Trump's team defended its use saying that the star was a "sheriff's badge", before eventually deleting it and posting a new picture with a circle replacing the star.^[5]

White House:

On December 22, 2016, Scavino was announced to be White House Director of Social Media under President Donald Trump.^[3]

In April 2017, ethics attorney Richard Painter accused Scavino of violating the Hatch Act(which bars executive branch employees from engaging in electoral activities) after Scavino, from his personal Twitter account, hadcalled for defeating Congressman Justin Amash.^[7] The Office of Special Counsel then informed Scavino that his tweet had indeed violated the Hatch Act and warned that future violations "could result in further action."^[8] In May 2019, Politico reported that Scavino frequented the /r/The_Donald subreddit.^[9]

On June 18, 2019,USA Today released an article stating that Scavino is the one who writes Trump's tweets.^[10]

To date,Scavino is the longest-serving aide in the Trump Administration.^[11]

Personal life:

Daniel and Jennifer Scavino were married in 2000; they have two children. His wife filed for divorce in January 2018.^[12]

References:

Sarah Sanders [@PressSec] (January 15, 2019). "Happy Birthday @Scavino45 one of my favorite people at the WH and one of the most talented people I know" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
"Trump names Dan Scavino White House social media director". Retrieved February 22, 2018.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ "Trump picks Sean Spicer as White House press secretary, Jason Miller as communications director". CNN Money. December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
Jennifer Mendelsohn. "How Would Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Affected His Own Team?" Politico, January 18, 2018.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ Moody, Chris (July 5, 2016). "How a golf caddie became Trump's campaign confidant".
"- Playing the Trump Card". www.hvmag.com. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
SAMUELSOHN, Darren (April 1, 2017). "Trump aide accused of Hatch Act violation after urging Amash primary challenge". Politico. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
Gold, Matea (June 9, 2017). "White House social-media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman". Retrieved February 22, 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
Restuccia, Andrew; Lippman, Daniel; Johnson, Eliana (May 16, 2019). "'Get Scavino in here': Trump's Twitter guru is the ultimate insider". POLITICO. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
"He writes Trump's tweets and has been with Trump's campaign since day one". USA TODAY. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
Draper, Robert. "The Man Behind the President's Tweets". Retrieved November 10, 2018.
Ali, Yashar (March 18, 2018). "Wife Of Top Trump Aide Dan Scavino Files For Divorce".

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Caroline Wiles

Executive Office of the President

http://www.alternet.org/media/paid-actors-fake-publicist-and-retweeted-bots-how-trump-creates-his-own-alternate-reality

Donald Trump’s Twitter habits help shape the media and public narrative about his administration, which is why his record of retweeting and quote-tweeting accounts with suspicious bot or sock-puppet activity raises concerns.

A Media Matters study of an archive of Trump’s Twitter account revealed that over the past year, Trump has on a handful of occasions propped up praise from accounts that feature suspicious bot activity or that have since been suspended or deactivated. If he’s unintentionally promoting bots, it shows gullibility and a lack of basic due diligence on his part that is terrifying in someone as powerful as the president. And if he’s promoting such tweets intentionally, that shows how shamelessly Trump resorts to propaganda in an effort to bolster his image, set narratives, distract the public from damaging news, spin stories in his favor, and provide talking points for far-right media networks with no regard for reality.

Trump’s history of using deceit to manipulate the media and project self-advantageous messages indicates that there’s perhaps nothing accidental about his tendency to retweet bots. For three decades, starting in the 1970s, Trump infamously pretended to be a fictional publicist named John Miller and used that pseudonym to plant pro-Trump stories in the media. In June 2015, Trump paid actors to cheer for him during his announcement that he would run for president, during which he called Mexican immigrants rapists. Trump has said that he retweets for a reason and that the retweets are an endorsement “to a certain extent.” This doesn’t leave much room to question the intentionality behind his insidious strategy.

Automated social media accounts are said to have played a role in the 2016 presidential election, an issue that the Senate is still investigating. During Trump’s campaign, his digital operations -- many aspects of which were manned by the recently reinstated head of Breitbart.com Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Jared Kushner’s and Brad Parscale's Project Alamo-- focused on building a loyal audience that was mostly isolated from anti-Trump narratives and was predisposed to distrusting the press and any unfavorable media coverage. For this loyal audience, Trump’s retweets of praiseful bot or sock-puppet accounts reinforce what they already feel; it's like reading the positive blurbs of a book they know they like. So they enthusiastically endorse him by retweeting them, thus becoming important magnifiers in the propaganda loop.

Even when he’s not retweeting bots, Trump has provided a platform to right-wing media trolls via his retweets, regaling them with a veneer of legitimacy that eclipses their awful records of propagating conspiracy theories, engaging in attention-grabbing stunts, and leading their followers in harassment campaigns against journalists. Others in Trump’s orbit have taken a similar approach on social media, as evidenced by Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media director, who has access to Trump’s account. Scavino has repeatedly used his own account to smear and attack Trump’s political and media opponents. In one instance, he violated the Hatch Act by engaging in political activity as a federal employee.

While Trump’s Twitter habits provide entertaining fodder and endless material for headlines, they should also give some insight into the terrifying -- yet transparent -- ways the administration is manipulating reality. And this manipulation is consistent with the way Trump has consistently drawn on chicanery to shape perceptions about him.

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Dan Scavino, social media director and presidential adviser to President Donald Trump, repeatedly utilized social media to smear and attack Trump’s political and media opponents and in one instance violated the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from engaging in political activity while in office.

Dan Scavino regularly uses Twitter to attack Trump’s political and media opponents

Scavino shared a supercut video of Brian Williams, claiming that America “hasn’t forgotten” about his “#LyinBrianMoments.”

America hasn't forgotten all of your #LyinBrianMoments @BWilliams.

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— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) June 11, 2017

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Scavino criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan following terror attacks in London.

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.@MayorofLondon- refer to below tweet 13 months ago, after you criticized ... now President @realDonaldTrump --- and WAKE UP!!!! https://twitter.com/danscavino/status/730248487179321345 …

6:46 AM - Jun 4, 2017

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Scavino called for the “#TrumpTrain” to unseat Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) in the state’s next primary election, calling him “a big liability.”

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.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability.#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.

9:33 AM - Apr 1, 2017

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Scavino Threatened Fox’s Megyn Kelly After He Didn’t Like An Interview She Did With Newt Gingrich. After a contentious interview in which former Fox host Megyn Kelly asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich about sexual assault allegations against Trump, Scavino wrote on Twitter that Kelly is “not very smart” and also said, “Watch what happens to her after this election is over.” [Mediaite, 10/25/16; Twitter, 10/25/16; Twitter, 10/25/16]

Kelly Later Cited Scavino As A Reason She Received Death Threats For Her Coverage Of Trump. The Guardian reported, “Journalist Megyn Kelly, who is under armed guard after receiving death threats, has accused Donald Trump’s social media director of stirring hatred on the internet.” Kelly said during a December talk in Washington, D.C., “It’s that far corner of the internet that really enjoys nastiness and threats and unfortunately there is a man who works for Donald Trump whose job it is to stir these people up and that man needs to stop doing that. His name is Dan Scavino.” [The Guardian, 12/6/16]

CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter was forced to respond to false allegations she was having an affair with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after Scavino tweeted a conspiracy video. CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter was forced to respond to a false smear Scavino pushed on Twitter that alleged Carpenter had an affair with then-presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Scavino retweeted the video, which claimed a photo of Carpenter wearing a suit jacket was evidence that Carpenter was Cruz’s mistress. [Mediaite, 3/29/16]

Along with harassment, Scavino also uses his social media to spread conspiracy theories

Scanivo was hired into the Trump administration after time on the campaign trail pushing conspiracy theories and harassing Trump opponents. Trump’s White House communications team announced that Scavino would be serving as “assistant to the president and director of social media,” in effect rewarding Scavino for his work on the campaign trail repeatedly pushing conspiracy theories, publishing an anti-Semitic “sheriff’s star” tweet, and threatening former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. [Media Matters, 12/22/16]

Office of Special Counsel found one of Scavino's threatening tweets violated the Hatch Act

Politico: Trump social media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act laws. Politico reported that “President Donald Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino violated the law” after Scavino used his Twitter account to campaign against a Republican congressman in Michigan. From the June 9 article:

President Donald Trump's social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he called on Trump's allies to oust a Republican congressman from office in April, according to the Office of Special Counsel.

The agency found that Scavino breached a provision of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees engaging in some forms of political activity while acting in their official capacity.

"Accordingly, we issued Mr. Scavino a warning letter," wrote Ana Galindo-Marrone, chief of OSC's Hatch Act Unit. "In addition, we note that Mr. Scavino was recently counseled about the Hatch Act by the Office of the White House Counsel." [Politico, 6/9/17]

Dan Scavino regularly uses Twitter to attack Trump’s political and media opponents

Scavino shared a supercut video of Brian Williams, claiming that America “hasn’t forgotten” about his “#LyinBrianMoments.”

America hasn't forgotten all of your #LyinBrianMoments @BWilliams.

➡️https://t.co/eCwLwx0rQ0 pic.twitter.com/Ab4ewPaZuy

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) June 11, 2017

Twitter.com, [6/11/17]

Scavino criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan following terror attacks in London.

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.@MayorofLondon- refer to below tweet 13 months ago, after you criticized ... now President @realDonaldTrump --- and WAKE UP!!!! https://twitter.com/danscavino/status/730248487179321345 …

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Scavino called for the “#TrumpTrain” to unseat Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) in the state’s next primary election, calling him “a big liability.”

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@DanScavino](https://twitter.com/DanScavino)}:

.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability.#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.

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Scavino Threatened Fox’s Megyn Kelly After He Didn’t Like An Interview She Did With Newt Gingrich. After a contentious interview in which former Fox host Megyn Kelly asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich about sexual assault allegations against Trump, Scavino wrote on Twitter that Kelly is “not very smart” and also said, “Watch what happens to her after this election is over.” Mediaite, [10/25/16; Twitter, 10/25/16; Twitter, 10/25/16]

Kelly Later Cited Scavino As A Reason She Received Death Threats For Her Coverage Of Trump. The Guardianreported, “Journalist Megyn Kelly, who is under armed guard after receiving death threats, has accused Donald Trump’s social media director of stirring hatred on the internet.” Kelly said during a December talk in Washington, D.C., “It’s that far corner of the internet that really enjoys nastiness and threats and unfortunately there is a man who works for Donald Trump whose job it is to stir these people up and that man needs to stop doing that. His name is Dan Scavino.” *The Guardian*, [12/6/16]

Along with harassment, Scavino also uses his social media to spread conspiracy theories

Scanivo was hired into the Trump administration after time on the campaign trail pushing conspiracy theories and harassing Trump opponents. Trump’s White House communications team announced that Scavino would be serving as “assistant to the president and director of social media,” in effect rewarding Scavino for his work on the campaign trail repeatedly pushing conspiracy theories, publishing an anti-Semitic “sheriff’s star” tweet, and threatening former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. *Media Matters*, [12/22/16]

Office of Special Counsel found one of Scavino's threatening tweets violated the Hatch Act

Politico: Trump social media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act laws. Politicoreported that “President Donald Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino violated the law” after Scavino used his Twitter account to campaign against a Republican congressman in Michigan. From the June 9 article:

President Donald Trump's social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he called on Trump's allies to oust a Republican congressman from office in April, according to the Office of Special Counsel.

The agency found that Scavino breached a provision of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees engaging in some forms of political activity while acting in their official capacity.

"Accordingly, we issued Mr. Scavino a warning letter," wrote Ana Galindo-Marrone, chief of OSC's Hatch Act Unit. "In addition, we note that Mr. Scavino was recently counseled about the Hatch Act by the Office of the White House Counsel." *Politico*, [6/9/17]

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Dan Scavino regularly uses Twitter to attack Trump’s political and media opponents

Scavino shared a supercut video of Brian Williams, claiming that America “hasn’t forgotten” about his “#LyinBrianMoments.”

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America hasn't forgotten all of your #LyinBrianMoments @BWilliams.

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10:53 AM - 11 Jun 2017

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Scavino criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan following terror attacks in London.

:{[Dan Scavino Jr. :{}:

✔

@Scavino45](https://twitter.com/Scavino45)}:

.@MayorofLondon- refer to below tweet 13 months ago, after you criticized ... now President @realDonaldTrump --- and WAKE UP!!!! https://twitter.com/danscavino/status/730248 > ====487179321345 …

6:46 AM - 4 Jun 2017

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Scavino called for the “#TrumpTrain” to unseat Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) in the state’s next primary election, calling him “a big liability.”

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.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability.#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.

9:33 AM - 1 Apr 2017

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Along with harassment, Scavino also uses his social media to spread conspiracy theories

Scanivo was hired into the Trump administration after time on the campaign trail pushing conspiracy theories and harassing Trump opponents. Trump’s White House communications team announced that Scavino would be serving as “assistant to the president and director of social media,” in effect rewarding Scavino for his work on the campaign trail repeatedly pushing conspiracy theories, publishing an anti-Semitic “sheriff’s star” tweet, and threatening former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. *Media Matters*:{, :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[12/22/16]

Office of Special Counsel found one of Scavino's threatening tweets violated the Hatch Act

President Donald Trump's social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he called on Trump's allies to oust a Republican congressman from office in April, according to the Office of Special Counsel.

The agency found that Scavino breached a provision of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees engaging in some forms of political activity while acting in their official capacity.

"Accordingly, we issued Mr. Scavino a warning letter," wrote Ana Galindo-Marrone, chief of OSC's Hatch Act Unit. "In addition, we note that Mr. Scavino was recently counseled about the Hatch Act by the Office of the White House Counsel." *Politico*, [6/9/17]

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