Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested' ( www.rawstory.com )

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."

Delusional ,

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.

jordanlund ,
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How is this different from the assholes that spread these as "tips"?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3fb9b02c-ed3e-4ae5-b952-31efdb528cfc.jpeg

Wrench ,

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.

Daveyborn ,
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You just activated my fight or flight

EatATaco ,

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?

FlyingSquid ,
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What a weird coincidence. I posted this same image in an entirely different thread yesterday.

jordanlund ,
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Well, it was the best pic I could find in Google. :)

FlyingSquid ,
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Right, but it was on a totally different subject. Religious "tippers" in restaurants.

ZombiFrancis ,

I think the venn diagram closely resembles a single circle.

FlyingSquid ,
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He only knows the best people.

slurpinderpin ,

Arrest this dumb fucker and throw away the key

sxan ,
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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?

neuropean ,

They basically handle counterfeit money cases, so people spending counterfeit money provided by this asshole would have been investigated by the secret service.

xantoxis ,

The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

Saprophyte ,
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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.

Octavio ,

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.

xc2215x ,

Very disgusting. Glad the Secret Service has been notified.

sukhmel ,

Can't decide if bragging about defrauding government in rap lyrics or this situation, in TikTok of all the places, is more stupid.

Though I must note that rappers often get prosecuted based on their lyrics, and I don't think it's not a fair punishment if the only "solid" evidence is their song

cheese_greater ,

Bruce Rivers built his name off of self-snitchers lol. Heck of a guy + lawyer, he's great

Otakulad ,

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.

xmunk ,

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)

Drusas ,

Truly no level these people won't stoop to.

18+ willie1foot ,
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@Stopthatgirl7 Arseholes hire arseholes… quelle surprise

NOT_RICK ,
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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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