There have been some announcements from former Trump administration fascists. Sarah Huckabee Sanders landed on her feet in Arkansas and plans to run for governor there. Kayleigh McEnany is already talking to Fox News, although that might get tricky. Sean Spicer is finding a home in alt-right conservative media. But what of all of the Trump loyalists who were with him to the bitter and violent end? What about all of the staffers who changed diapers, delivered cheeseburgers and Diet Cokes and helped Trump organize a violent insurrection in an attempted coup? Well, those people are having a tough time finding work! Donald Trump has not put any organization together, which has left former Trumpers largely adrift.

As Trump gingerly charts out next steps, he is doing so increasingly alone. Two of his most trusted confidantes, Johnny McEntee and Hope Hicks, declined to join him in Florida after spending years by his side on the campaign trail and in the West Wing.

Many other aides have left his side, eager to start anew far away from their former boss. White House aides and administration officials who once relished their West Wing perches have jetted off on remote getaways — cashing in on a mountain of unused vacation time. Others are frantically asking former colleagues for help finding work as they prioritize their own careers over whatever chapter Trump is planning for himself.

“There’s a lot of resumé passing and people just wanting to help people land on their feet,” said a former Trump White House official. It’s not been easy. Tainted by Trump’s reputation, several Trump aides described an increasingly bleak job market with virtually no chance of landing jobs in corporate America and some even having seen promising leads disappear after the rampage at the U.S. Capitol. A second former White House official said they knew of “people who got jobs rescinded because of Jan. 6.” A Republican strategist was blunter.

“They are really f—ed,” the strategist said, pointing to some top officials who stuck with Trump until the bitter end. “The Hill scramble, one of the few places where they’d be welcomed, already happened a month or so ago… They were told over and over to take their hand off the hot stove, and they didn’t want to listen.”

It’s not just the lower- and mid-level staffers getting pinched. Two people familiar with his thinking said Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who spent seven years in the House of Representatives before joining the White House, was even considering a position at the Trump Organization because of a lack of options.

It’s a far different reality from where Trump and his aides had envisioned they would be. A month ago, everything seemed crystal clear: He had lost the 2020 election but would soon launch a juggernaut campaign for the presidency in 2024, and his allies and inner circle would be there to help. Now, the former president’s team is scampering away — willing to leave Washington, in some cases for red states like Texas and Florida, to increase their job prospects — while his own second act is clouded by uncertainty. One former senior administration official noted that many inside the White House were waiting until after the Electoral College votes were counted to begin their job search in earnest, so as not to step on messaging about Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. But then, the riots on Capitol Hill upended their plans.

“They looked to that [Jan. 6] as the end of the limbo state people were operating in so they could start moving on to the next thing” the former official said. “But the 6th put a shock to that.”

[From Politico]

Who would have thought that “organizing a deadly coup” and “subverting democracy” and “cheering for terrorists to murder elected officials and police officers” would look bad on a resume? Who would have thought that going full-throttle fascist with the dumbest guy on earth would have larger career repercussions? What’s particularly painful though is the thought that without the Jan. 6th insurrection, many of these douchebags probably would have been able to find jobs. The jobs wouldn’t have been great or anything, but it’s depressing to think that it literally took a domestic terrorist attack organized by the Trump White House to make these f–kers unhireable.

Oh, and now a liberal watchdog group is tracking former Trump aides in their quest to find work. Yes!! Make a spreadsheet and keep the pressure on!!

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