Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'
Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'
Donald Trump's former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it. Johnny McEntee, formerly the White House Presidential Personnel Office under the former president, posted a video o.....
Donald Trump's former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it.
Johnny McEntee, formerly the White House Presidential Personnel Office under the former president, posted a video on TikTok in which he discusses the purported scheme to "clean up the community."
"So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money, and I give them like a $5 bill, I feel good about myself, they feel good," said McEntee, also a senior advisor to Project 2025. "And then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I'm actually helping to clean up the community and get them off the street."
Truly no level these people won't stoop to.
Conservatives love SWATing
Punching down is like level 0 for them though. But I still agree with you.
Didn't George Floyd get murdered because he paid with a counterfeit? And assholes like this are proud of it.
No. George Floyd was murdered because an asshole cop thought he could choke him out with impunity
But why were the police even called?
Before the police were called, Martin and his co-workers made two trips to the SUV that Floyd was sitting in outside Cup Foods, trying to get him to come back to the store, Martin said. He recalled telling Floyd and his friends that the bill Floyd had just used was fake, and that his boss wanted to talk to him.
All I'm saying is, the consequences aren't as simple as "some homeless lowlife goes to jail lol" like the guy in the article seems to feel in his heart. Sometimes a counterfeit bill results in a 9- minute long public execution followed months of societal pain.
ETA: Johnny McEntee! That's the asshole's name. Johnny McEntee is the asshole that is trying to get homeless people into situations involving police over counterfeit money. Police that sometimes decide murder is a best path to justice for poor people with counterfeit money legal issus. Fuck that guy.
Was it Mcentee Money? Was he in Minnesota? Did he give George Floyd the fake money? I'm just asking questions.
Alternate headline: Vapid idiot brags about his incessant need to punch down in order to sexually perform
crimes against fellow Americans
FTFY
He doesn't consider them to be fellow Americans.
So he's a counterfeiter? I'm sorry, isn't that a federal crime?
The whole thing stinks as schoolboy level revenge fantasy. I doubt there's truth to it.
Prop money has specific laws and guidelines and is very easily identifiable and therefore do not count as counterfeit.
If a $5 bill does find its way in the economy no one gets arrested probably, someone just made a stupid trade. Otherwise half the store owners would be in jail when attempting to deposit money that happens to contain a fake note here and there.
I got passed a fake $100 as a pizza delivery driver one time. Some secret service agents came to my store a few days later, and asked me about where I got it. They took the information I had, and continued their investigation to get to the person that made the thing. It was easy to tell them where I got it. That was the only $100 bill I had been handed in weeks.
Very disgusting. Glad the Secret Service has been notified.
By notified it means that they were tagged on social media. Persecution would probably require a victim to be found or come forward, or maybe get a warrant to search his vehicle for counterfeits and cocaine, unless they get him for a lesser charge like conspiracy to commit a crime.
Prosecution, but yeah. Persecute this shithead
Can anyone eli5 why the Secret Service would have anything to do with this? Up until now, I thought their sole role was protecting POTUS. Do they prosecute money fraud, too?
The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.
https://www.secretservice.gov/investigations
Counterfeiting of United States currency, bonds, checks, and other financial obligations and securities. Distributing or passing of counterfeited, forged, or altered U.S. currency and other financial obligations and securities. Criminals sometimes use online forums to sell bulk counterfeited U.S. or foreign currency.
Well their original charter was to investigate counterfeiting. The presidential protection thing was kind of an add-on. But my impression was that the original function was moved to a different agency and the USSS, originally under the treasury department, moved to Homeland Security. So I don’t know why they would have anything to with this. Unless I remembered that wrong.
They basically handle counterfeit money cases, so people spending counterfeit money provided by this asshole would have been investigated by the secret service.
How is this different from the assholes that spread these as "tips"?
The people who pass these out are huge assholes...but do honestly need it explained to you why tricking a homeless person into using fake money so they are arrested is not the same as some religious nutter attempting to trick you into reading their proselytization?
Those cannot be reasonably mistaken for real currency. Carefully so, even.
This person allegedly (from his own mouth) intentionally passed off paper convincing enough to be used in films, as real currency, to people with a high likelihood of mental illness, in the express desire to trick them into using it as real currency so that they get arrested.
Who knows if any of this is true, but from the asses' own mouth, that's a world of difference in intent.
You're right that no one would think they were real. When i worked at McDonald's the bastards would pay this at the back window and try and zoom forward and get their food from the next window before the confused money taker could let the person handing out the food know lol
Not that anyone thought it was real though. You're definitely still correct
You just activated my fight or flight
I think the venn diagram closely resembles a single circle.
Like the movement it grew out of. trumpism is designed to be cruel. To be Sadistic. To be brutal. To be heartless. It is not a flaw in their thinking. It is a purposely chosen tactic. As it is something that is desired it will never be punished
The video in question, since links in the article lead to nothing
"So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money, and I give them like a $5 bill, I feel good about myself, they feel good," said McEntee, also a senior advisor to Project 2025. "And then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I'm actually helping to clean up the community and get them off the street."
Wow... What a fucking cartoonishly evil piece of shit...
@Stopthatgirl7 Arseholes hire arseholes… quelle surprise
So another of Trump's sycophants is committing crime that will get him arrested while Trump (who may or may not be behind or endorse the crime) gets away without consequences. How very typical.
And If memory serves, wasn't the secret service originally invented to fight fraud? Either counterfeiting, mail fraud, or something?
And If memory serves, wasn't the secret service originally invented to fight fraud? Either counterfeiting, mail fraud, or something?
Specifically counterfeiting yes. And they take it super seriously.
Wow who knew that these obvious piece of shit scumbags were obvious piece of shit scumbags. They're a detriment to our society and republicans elect them to positions of power where they can become even larger detriments to our society.
Arrest this dumb fucker and throw away the key
Shows how stupid this guy is. Obviously it isn't illegal for someone to own "Hollywood money" or else he wouldn't admit to owning it himself. If a homeless person gives it to a store and they accept it, that's on them.
It clearly states on the bills "For Motion Picture use Only", doesn't feel right, and isn't the right size.
If a homeless man accepts a Hollywood bill, believes it genuine, and tries to spend it - they're not at fault for most of the currency related laws. Simply handing a homeless person a fake bill with the intent that they believe it is genuine is the super illegal thing. There's a large mens rhea component to most crimes but especially around fraud... the basis of most fraud cases is inequal information: you purposefully don't disclose a significant quality of the goods being transferred.
I hope this shitheel learns thoroughly that the secret service are really fucking serious about their non-bodyguard duty.
(Also, shout out to Warehouse 13 for being a fucking hilarious premise right in this area)
The person handing them out, passing the fake bills off as real money to the homeless(even as a donation) is the illegal thing. Spending a counterfeit bill without having known it was fake is not illegal in the US afaik, but you can still be arrested for it because the police don't have to believe that you didn't know.
It's absolutely not legal. But you'd need a lawyer, and the homeless don't have a lawyer. The wealthy and well to do love this trick... Punching down is kind of their thing.
Hollywood money is highly regulated, and secret service is very strict about it. Adam Savage recently made a YouTube vid about movie money, which has stories about the secret service at the beginning of the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=drLzVcgnBfI
They don't care. The only way for a Trump aide to get fired is to mock them on SNL.
This guy has been getting the piss mocked out of him on TikTok for months. Every video he makes and every comment section is filled with people shitposting about Five Nights at Freddie’s - it’s pretty funny.
I’m sure he will offer to part in anyone who gets arrested during his campaign. Then conveniently forget about it should he get elected
He only knows the best people.
His intentions are evil, that's a fact. But prop money isn't counterfeit money.
Prop money is counterfeit money if you try to pass it as real money.
That's exactly what he did with it, and then bragged about it stating his criminal intent.
Any money you try to pass off as real money is counterfeit money. Intent matters here.
DEMOCRATS are the Swamp! Law And Order!
This article is about a Republican.
I think that this is an attempt at a joke rather than something he actually did. He probably enjoys reading about how angry his political opponents are about it.
Ah the old "That horrific story you heard about me was actually fabricated by me, so this is actually a win haha gotcha" defense.
Is this guy a Drake ghostwriter?
What does it matter if Trump wins or not.
Us politicians are already bought and sold by capitalist pigs out of control.
Its only a matter of time that inflation keeps getting worse and worse and China is going to keep undermining US economy.
The CEOs have already secured their lifeboats, and the future of capitalism out of control is that it will hollow out the economy.
The USA has entered a death spiral of poverty by capitalist design, the CEOS are too blinded by greed to see what they have done. And the politicians are in there pockets.
It will keep getting worse and worse.
Well, if Trump gets elected the chances of an open American war in the middle east (where I live) will go up, so uhhhh would kindly appreciate it if y'all kept your shit politics confined to y'all shit borders k thx
George Carlin said it best. Its a big club and you and I ain't in it. Red or blue the outcome is controlled by those that control the narrative and both red and blue are their subjects.
Systems ens come and go, yours is being dismantled internally.