john gibbs opm
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s relentless efforts to purge the federal government of people who aren’t deemed sufficiently loyal to him will now be overseen by a lackey who once claimed that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was a practicing Satanist, <a href="https://www.axios.com/white-house-office-personnel-management-john-gibbs-7333b9be-424a-454b-b395-6654d364b79b.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">according</a> to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Axios</em>.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump intends to nominate John Gibbs to run the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision, which remains closely held.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Why it matters:</span> OPM is the HR department for the federal government's civil service. The agency has become a focus of the White House's efforts to install and reward Trump loyalists across the government.</font></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("/img/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Politico <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="first reported" data-vars-click-url="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/opm-chief-resigns-134541" data-vars-content-id="7333b9be-424a-454b-b395-6654d364b79b" data-vars-headline="Scoop: Trump to put loyalist in charge of government's HR department" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/opm-chief-resigns-134541" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent;">first reported</a>, the previous head of OPM, Dale Cabaniss, "stepped down because of, what two people familiar with the matter said, was poor treatment from the [then] 29-year-old head of the Presidential Personnel Office, John McEntee, and a powerful appointee at OPM, Paul Dans."</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Between the lines:</span> Gibbs is a former conservative commentator who currently serves as a senior official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.</font></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("/img/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gibbs received national media attention when CNN <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="reported" data-vars-click-url="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/kfile-john-gibbs-hud/index.html" data-vars-content-id="7333b9be-424a-454b-b395-6654d364b79b" data-vars-headline="Scoop: Trump to put loyalist in charge of government's HR department" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/kfile-john-gibbs-hud/index.html" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent;">reported</a>, in 2018, that he "spread a false conspiracy theory that claimed Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign chairman took part in a Satanic ritual."</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">White House response: </span>Deputy press secretary Judd Deere told Axios that "the White House has no personnel announcements at this time."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Go deeper: </span><a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="Trump's loyalty cop John McEntee clashes with agency heads" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/john-mcentee-white-house-trump-a799d519-aa2f-4e3d-b081-601f8193d75d.html" data-vars-content-id="7333b9be-424a-454b-b395-6654d364b79b" data-vars-headline="Scoop: Trump to put loyalist in charge of government's HR department" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/john-mcentee-white-house-trump-a799d519-aa2f-4e3d-b081-601f8193d75d.html" target="self" style="background-color: transparent;">Trump's loyalty cop John McEntee clashes with agency heads</a></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div>