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Trump Nominates Conspiracy Theorist to Lead OPM
President Trump on Monday formally nominated Housing and Urban Development official John Gibbs to helm the Office of Personnel Management.
Gibbs has worked at HUD since 2017, initially as an advisor in HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s office and now as acting assistant secretary for community planning and development. Prior to entering public service, he was a conservative commentator and a software engineer.
But Gibbs is perhaps best known because of a series of now-private tweets he published during the 2016 presidential campaign, in which he promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were Satanists and that John Podesta attended a satanic ritual, based on an email published by WikiLeaks where Podesta was invited to have dinner with performance artist Marina Abramović.
Gibbs also came under scrutiny in 2018 over his position at HUD despite having no professional experience in housing policy. The Washington Post reported that he was paid $131,000 per year to serve in a position for which the job description stated the occupant should “possess knowledge of the Fair Housing Act” and understand other elements of federal housing policy.
@January 20 - please hurry.