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Baby-faced assassin: the 29-year old at the heart of Trump’s ‘deep state’ purge

Johnny McEntee, an ex-college quarterback, heads a sweeping White House effort to purge the civil service and install loyalists

Johnny McEntee may never surpass the fame he garnered in 2011 as a college football quarterback starring in a viral trick shot video of him throwing footballs great distances into trash cans that racked up more than 7m views.

Now, as the recently named White House director for presidential personnel, McEntee, 29, has been put in charge by Donald Trump of canning federal employees – not footballs – suspected of harboring secret anti-Trump sentiments.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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