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.”

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    Alternate headline: Vapid idiot brags about his incessant need to punch down in order to sexually perform

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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    Didn’t George Floyd get murdered because he paid with a counterfeit? And assholes like this are proud of it.

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      No. George Floyd was murdered because an asshole cop thought he could choke him out with impunity

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        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.

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      That is some dark shit to do to someone. The hardest hit people, that are usually mentally unstable, being setup. Fuck’d up

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    His intentions are evil, that’s a fact. But prop money isn’t counterfeit money.

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    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.