Normally, job applicants fill out applications that focus on one’s work history and education. But, if people want a job in The Fascist Guy’s administration, they should come prepared to fill out an application that is anything but normal.
According to The New York Times:
At the Trump transition offices in West Palm Beach, Fla., prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies typically run through a gamut of three to four interviews, conducted in recent weeks by a mix of Silicon Valley investors and innovators and a team of the MAGA faithful.
The applicants report that they have been asked about how to overhaul the Pentagon, or what technologies could make the intelligence agencies more effective, or how they feel about the use of the military to enforce immigration policy. But before they leave, some of them have been asked a final set of questions that seemed designed to assess their loyalty to President-elect Donald J. Trump.
The questions went further than just affirming allegiance to the incoming administration. The interviewers asked which candidate the applicants had supported in the three most recent elections, what they thought about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen. The sense they got was that there was only one right answer to each question.
Although NBC and MSNBC have not verified the NYT’s report, they state, “while it’s probably not surprising to see reporting like this, it’s worth emphasizing that these questions, if the Times’ report is accurate, aren’t just about measuring loyalty to Trump, his agenda, and/or his vision. Rather, if the questions focused on Jan. 6 and the Republicans’ election conspiracy theories, it sounds as if job applicants were tested on their loyalty to Trump’s lies, too.
Making matters worse, the Times published a separate report on Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires who have been “all over” the president-elect’s transition process, “shaping hiring decisions and even conducting interviews for senior-level jobs.”
Their involvement, to a degree far deeper than previously reported, has made this one of the most potentially conflict-ridden presidential transitions in modern history. It also carries what could be vast implications for the Trump administration’s policies on issues including taxes and the regulation of artificial intelligence, not to mention clashing mightily with the notion that Mr. Trump’s brand of populism is all about helping the working man.
Rachel Maddow breaks it down:
