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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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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?