Three years ago, after President Donald Trump left the White House, I began chronicling the names of the people who were complicit in the worst presidency in a century and what might be most corrupt presidential administration in history.
I’ve compiled 300 names (so far) for the blog,
Only the Best People: The criminals, sycophants, bigots, swindlers, liars, demagogues, pedophiles, pornographers, imbeciles, lunatics, bullies, misogynists, parasites, plagiarists, perjurers, extortionists, traitors, conspiracy junkies, and other deviants who contributed to the Trump presidency.
You can click a link to each person to read bios that run in length from 100 to 2,000 words. Each post is accompanied by links to the sources of my information.
Douglass Mackey, anti-Semitic, homophobic, Trump-supporter and social media influencer who was sentenced to seven months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to interfere with the rights of voters in the 2016 Presidential Election,
Paul Manafort, Trump pardoned his former campaign manager who was serving a seven-year prison term for committing a number of federal crimes in connection to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling during the 2016 Presidential Election,
Tom Marino, withdrew his name to become the Trump Administration’s drug czar to fight the opioid epidemic after news stories reported that Marino had worked with the pharmaceutical industry to make it easier for Americans to get their hands on the highly addictive opioids,
Jeff Mateer, President Donald Trump withdrew his name for a federal district judgeship after excerpts from a speech were released that included, among other things, that he described transgender children as proof of “Satan’s plan” and said that same-sex marriage would lead to polygamy and bestiality,
Patrick McCaughey III, was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting a police officer in one of the most brutal images of the January 6, 2021, insurrection of U.S. Capitol,
Vince McMahon, friend of Donald Trump who lost his job as CEO of World Wrestling Enterprises after being accused of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and physical abuse,
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Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, charged with two felonies in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia,
Kelly and Connie Meggs, the January 6th’s fun couple — Kelly, a leader of the Oath Keepers, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 12 years in federal prison; Connie was sentenced to 15 months for obstruction of Congress,
Jason Miller, married, pro-life, pro-family values GOP political advisor, who impregnated a Trump campaign staffer, frequented strip shows and sex clubs, and impregnated a stripper and reportedly drugged her to abort her pregnancy,
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Max Miller, Ohio congressman and former Trump staffer who was accused by his ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Grisham, of physically abusing her when they were dating,
Stephen Miller, political advisor called “one of the most evil people to have worked for Donald Trump,”
Roberto Minuta and Edward Vallejo, sentenced to federal prison on charges of seditious conspiracy,
Cleta Mitchell, Donald Trump attorney who accompanied the former president when he called the Georgia secretary of state to intimidate the official into overturning the results of the Presidential Election in Georgia; she was called “arguably the most central player in the attempt to steal the election who isn’t facing prison time,”
Thomas Modly, acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy in the Trump’s Administration, who resigned under pressure for telling the crew of the fired commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt that the commander “was either too naive or stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this,”
David Moerschel and Joseph Hackett, Oath Keepers who were sentenced to federal prison for three and half years and three years, respectively, for seditious conspiracy in connection to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,
Roy Moore, President Donald Trump endorsed this white supremacist and alleged pedophile in Moore’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama,
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Barry Myers, withdrew his name from consideration after President Donald Trump nominated him to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) because he lacked the requisite science background for the job,
George Nader, adviser to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and lifelong pedophile, who pleaded guilty to charges of bringing an underaged boy to the United States for sex and for possession of child pornography that included sexual abuse of toddlers; sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Walt Nauta, Carlos De Oliveira, and Yuscil Taveras, were implicated in the federal case against former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents,
Peter Navarro, advisor to former President Donald Trump was found guilty of criminal contempt of Congress and sentenced to four months in federal prison,
Kirstjen Nielsen, the architect of President Donald Trump’s policy of separating families and putting children in metal cages,
Omarosa Manigault Newman made the improbable – though sadly not unprecedented — transition from The Apprentice reality show to a job in the White House,
Kristi Noem, god-fearing, pro-family South Dakota governor who had a yearslong affair with sleazy Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski,
Tim Nolan, Kentucky county campaign chair for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, school board member, law-and-order judge, and klansman who was found guilty of 21 counts of child-sex trafficking and human trafficking and sentenced to twenty years in prison,
Ethan Nordean, Washington state head of the Proud Boys, a white supremacist terrorist organization, sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on charges including seditious conspiracy for his part in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at U.S. Capitol,
Barack Obama, former president of the United States whose ridicule of Donald Trump at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was reportedly responsible for Trump announcing his candidacy for the presidency in 2016,
Scott O’Grady, President Donald Trump appointed this former Air Force pilot-turned conspiracy nut and purveyor of disinformation to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense,
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Bill O’Reilly, bully, narcissist, fabulist, bullshitter, and congenital liar who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women, who shares vanilla milkshakes with Donald Trump, a bully, narcissist, fabulist, bullshitter, and congenital liar who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women,
Terrell Owens, one of the first sports figures to endorse Donald Trump for president in 2016, a deadbeat dad, and a former NFL receiver who was voted the most hated player in league history,
Sarah Palin, enough said,
George Papadopoulos, President Donald Trump pardoned this former adviser for lying to the FBI in its investigation of Russian meddling during the 2016 Presidential Election,
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Sean Parnell, a Donald Trump-endorsed candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, dropped out of the campaign after he lost a fight for custody of his children to his estranged wife, who had accused him of sexual abuse,
Sam Patten, a political consultant and lobbyist who became ensnarled in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 Presidential Election in part because of his long business partnership relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the FBI characterized as a “Russian spy,”
Ken Paxton, corrupt, impeached, adulterous, election-denying megalomaniac who somehow bonded with President Donald Trump, a corrupt, impeached, adulterous, election-denying megalomaniac,
David Pecker, publisher of several tabloids who conspired with Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen to pay hush money to suppress stories about Trump extramarital affairs,
William Perry Pendley, dismissed as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the Department of the Interior, by a federal judge in Montana because Pendley’s appointment had never been approved by the U.S. Senate,
Rick Perry, dimwitted Secretary of Energy in the Donald Trump Administration and former governor of Texas, who used his political connections to appear as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars,
Scott Perry, went to considerable lengths to overturn results of the 2020 Presidential Election to keep Donald Trump in office and then reportedly sought a pardon from Trump for any crimes he may have committed relating to the insurrection,
Matthew Petersen, appointed by President Donald Trump to become a federal district judge in the District of Columbia, but his name was withdrawn from consideration when Senate Republicans expressed concerns that he had never tried a case, taken a deposition, or argued a motion in court or could not define basic legal terms,
Dominic Pezzola, member of Proud Boys, sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his part in the January 6, 2021, insurrection,
Richard Pinedo, pleaded guilty to one count of identity fraud and was sentenced to six months in prison after being implicated in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential Election,
Rob Porter, resigned as Donald Trump’s White House staff secretary after both his ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse,
Sidney Powell, former attorney for Donald Trump who pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors in connection to a conspiracy to overthrow results of presidential election in Georgia in 2020 in exchange for testifying against Trump; her claims of election fraud were so mind-boggling bonkers that they were refuted by Tucker Carlson on Fox News,
Tom Price, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services who resigned under pressure from Trump after spending more than $400,000 in travel for chartered flights for private business,
Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Environment Protection Agency who resigned from the EPA under pressure from Trump after being the subject of 14 investigations into his conflict of interests, spending habits, and management practices,
Vladimir Putin, ruthless, authoritarian dictator who former President Donald Trump talks about the way poets talk about love,
Randy Quaid, Donald Trump supporter, known for playing dimwitted, paranoid, and mentally ill characters . . . he was not acting,
John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump appointed Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to be the administration’s Director of National Intelligence, but a few days later the president withdrew his nomination after criticism that Ratcliffe had little experience in intelligence — and Trump had none,
Zachary Rehl, the former president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, a white supremacist terrorist organization, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy and several other criminal counts related to the January 6, 2001, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,
Robert Reilly, an anti-Islamic homophobe who President Donald Trump appointed as director of Voice of America and whose writing were criticized as “mean-spirited, sexually explicit, and just plain weird,”
Stewart Rhodes, conspiracy peddler, disbarred attorney, and leader of the far-right militia, the Oath Keepers, who was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy for the part he played in mobilizing the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,
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Todd Ricketts, President-elect Donald Trump named Todd Ricketts, Chicago Cubs co-owner and TD Ameritrade board member, to be his deputy commerce secretary but Ricketts withdrew his name from nomination after he couldn’t “reconcile his family’s complicated finances with the Office of Government Ethics” to avoid conflict of interests,
Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist told viewers on his syndicated Christian television program The 700 Club six weeks after the 2020 Presidential Election that Democratic president candidateJoe Biden won the election and that Trump “lives in an alternate reality” — and who knew more about alternative realities than Robertson?
John Rocker, racist major league baseball pitcher who was suspended by Major League Baseball after expressing slurs about blacks, gays, Asians, endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016,
Dennis Rodman, one of the best cross-dressing small forwards in NBA history, was, according to CNN, “perhaps the only person in the world” who had a personal relationship with a U.S. president, Donald Trump, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,
Daniel Rodriguez, sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for savagely attacking a police officer defending the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Chris Ruddy, a longtime friend of Donald Trump, and chief executive officer of Newsmax Media, a repository and purveyor of disinformation, misinformation, falsehoods, and bogus conspiracy theories, and a rehabilitation center for disgraced journalists, commentators, and former Trump administration officials,
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Donald Trump replaced his first press secretary Sean Spicer, an obsequious liar who was hostile to the press, with Sarah Huckabee, who was a more obsequious, more dishonest, and more hostile to the press,
Rick Santorum, you can take the Santorum out of the sanitarium, but you can’t take the sanitarium out of the Santorum,
Cesar Sayoc, fervent supporter of President Donald Trump who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending homemade pipe bombs to whom he considered enemies of Trump, including actor Robert DeNiro,
Anthony Scaramucci, hired by President Donald Trump to be the White House’s communications director to bring order to the White House; he brought more disorder and was fired after ten days,
Jon Schaffer, former heavy metal guitarist and professed founding member of Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty to crimes related to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,
Curt Schilling, Nazi enthusiast, one of the best major pitchers of his era and one of the most appalling former athletes of any era, endorsed Trump in his campaign for president and Trump endorsed him to run for Congress in Arizona — even though Schilling lived in Massachusetts,
Matt Schlapp, conservative political lobbyist, Fox News contributor, and chair of the American Conservative Union, settled out of court to avoid a trial over whether he sexually assaulted a GOP staffer after Schlapp reportedly “began aggressively fondling” the man’s “genital area in a sustained fashion,”
“Papa John” John Schnatter, millionaire Trump supporter and racist pizza entrepreneur,
Peter Schwartz, sentenced to 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair during the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,
Tony Schwartz, expressed regret for ghost writing Donald Trump’s autobiography, The Art of the Deal, that created the image of Trump “as a charmingly brash entrepreneur with an unfailing knack for business,”
Patrick Shanahan, President Donald Trump’s nomination to become secretary of Defense withdrew his name from consideration after it was reported that Shanahan and his former wife had been involved in a bloody domestic assault incident in 2010,
Christopher Sharpley, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the Central Intelligence Agency’s Inspector General withdrew his name from consideration after CIA staffers accused him of retaliating against for them for blowing the whistle on IG officials for allegedly mishandling evidence,
Bill Shine, forced out as Fox News president for failing to manage sexual misconduct claims at the network and found work as communications director at the Donald Trump White House infested with sexual misconduct charges,
Ralph Shortey, family values conservative and former Oklahoma state senator who served as the state’s campaign chair for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for what was referred to as “a sexual tryst with a teenage boy” at a hotel.
David Shulkin, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs who President Donald Trump fired in a tweet after the secretary’s personal travel was scrutinized by internal investigators,
Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard, President Donald Trump
pardoned the aforementioned mass murderers who were convicted by a U.S. jury of firing machine guns and throwing grenades into a crowd of unarmed Iraq citizens, killing 14 and injuring 17,
Peter Smith, an investment banker and Republican Party operative who said he attempted to acquire Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide,
Kevin Sorbo, bad actor who has trouble finding acting parts because he is a bad actor,
David Sorensen, a White House speechwriter who resigned after his former wife said he had been physically and emotionally abusive, which included driving over her foot and extinguishing a lit cigarette on her hand, among other things, during their 2 ½ year marriage,
Richard Spencer, served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy from August 2017 until he was fired in November 2019,
Sean Spicer, served as White House press secretary for the first six months of the Trump Presidential Administration and set a standard for lying, toadyism, and incompetence for other Trump White House press secretaries,
Latrelle Sprewell, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump won Sprewell’s endorsement after winning the Nevada caucuses during the early Republican primaries in 2016; Trump used the endorsement to shore up the key voting bloc of mentally unstable, bankrupted former athletes who were charged with assaulting their wives and or girlfriends,
Steve Stockman, President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former Republican congressman Steve Stockman, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy to swindle conservative foundations out of $775,000,
Roger Stone, President Donald Trump pardoned this longtime GOP adviser who was found guilty of a series of crimes related to a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,
Brett Talley, withdrew his name from consideration after President Donald Trump nominated the KKK defender to be a federal district judge even though he had had no courtroom experience and had received a unanimous rating of “not qualified” by a standing committee of the American Bar Association,
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Donald Trump paramilitary organization, the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the role he played in organizing his gang of seditious punks to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
Elizabeth Christ Trump, the mother of Fred Trump Sr. and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump,
Fred Trump Sr., the father of Donald Trump, a racist, ruthless, amoral, grandstanding, tax-evading, law-breaking, megalomaniac narcissist who didn’t care about anyone but himself and was seemingly incapable of empathy (remind you of anyone?),
Mary Trump, gave birth to Donald Trump and there is nothing worse one can say about her.
Trump Foundation, Donald Trump promised $2 million to eight charities but spent the money to promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts, and buy a portrait of himself,
Trump University, Donald Trump was ordered to pay $25 million to former students for, among other things, operating “an unlicensed, illegal education institution,”
Tommy Tuberville, pro-military GOP U.S. senator who froze hundreds of promotions in the military over a Pentagon policy that guaranteed access to abortion and reproduction care to members of the military, resulting in military personnel leaving the service and profoundly affecting military readiness,
Mike Tyson, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump boasted about his endorsement from Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist, registered sex offender, and an admitted drug addict and alcoholic, who once bit part of the ear off an opponent, brutalized at least one of his wives, and talked about wanting to eat children,
Alex van der Zwaan, Dutch attorney was sentenced to federal prison after admitting to lying to federal agents in the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling during the 2016 Presidential Election,
Ruben Verastigui, worked as a senior digital strategist for the GOP Senate Republican Conference, the Republican National Committee, and the Trump re-election campaign in 2020, charged with distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography, and sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison,
Vincent Viola, withdrew his name from nomination to be secretary of the Army because of a potential conflict of interests between the companies he owned and their financial interests with the government,
Ron Vitiello, his nomination to become the permanent director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was rescinded by President Donald Trump for reportedly not being tough enough – even though Vitiello endorsed “zero tolerance” for immigrants that included separating parents and children,
Herschel Walker, President Donald Trump endorsed Walker, a GOP candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, raising the question of why an often-bankrupt, psychotic, misogynist with anger-management issues, who was repeatedly accused of abusing women would endorse a political candidate who was an often-bankrupt, psychotic, misogynist with anger-management issues, who was repeatedly accused of abusing women?
Jessica Watkins, Oath Keepers defendant was sentenced to 8 ½ eight years in federal prison on charges related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,
Thomas Webster, a retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,
Robert Weaver, nominated by President Donald Trump to be director of the Indian Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but withdrew his name from consideration after questions arose about his work experience, (or lack thereof), job performance, and financial problems, which included filing for bankruptcy and failing to pay taxes on a business,
Anthony Weiner, Democratic New York congressman and husband a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, resigned after it was reported he had sent sexually explicit photos of himself in undershorts covering his privates to different women, including a 15-year-old; Weiner’s weiner would then play a part in the defeat of Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election,
Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization who was sentenced to five months in jail for operating a 13-year scheme to defraud federal, state, and local tax authorities of $1.76 million in taxes,
Edgar Maddison Welch, sentenced to prison for four years after he drove hundreds of miles and shot up a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., which, according to right-wing conspiracy peddlers, was home to a sex-trafficking ring run by former presidential candidate Hilly Clinton and her political,
Kathleen Hartnett White, her nomination by President Donald Trump to lead the Environmental Protection Agency-led Council on Environmental Quality to advise the president on environmental issues was withdrawn after it was reported that she had written, among other things, that “fossil fuels dissolved the economic justification for slavery”; that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant but “the gas of life”; and that ozone, or smog, isn’t harmful unless “you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for eight hours every day.”
Paula White, Trump’s spiritual adviser – what could one narcissistic, megalomaniacal, adulterous, thrice-married, often bankrupt (financially and morally) huckster have in common with another narcissistic, megalomaniacal, adulterous, thrice-married, often bankrupt (financially and morally) huckster?
Rick Wiles, pastor of a non-denominational and founder of the TruNews organization, a website that promotes conspiracy theories that target, among other groups, gays, Muslim, and Jews; the organization was given press credentials by the Trump White House,
Terrence K. Williams, comedian (but only if you take his word for it),
Lin Wood, disbarred Donald Trump Lawyer and conspiracy peddler, who called for former Vice President Mike Pence to be executed for “treason” and who claimed widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election — though he could not name anyone who had committed voter fraud,
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James Woods, established himself as an Academy Award-winning actor by playing creepy, unstable jerks, or, in other words, playing himself,
Chuck Woolery, has-been game show host whose idiotic claims about the coronavirus were retweeted by President Trump because – as everyone knows, has-been game show hosts know more about immunology than almost anyone else,
Milo Yiannopoulos, former Breitbart News editor, an alt-right political commentator, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, self-professed pedophile, and enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump,
Milo Yiannopoulos, former Breitbart News editor, an alt-right political commentator, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, self-professed pedophile, and enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump,
Ted Yoho, foul-mouthed, sexist, do-nothing congressman, who endorsed — and was endorsed by – Trump,
Christian and Bridget Ziegler, Florida’s fun couple-turned-throuple; Bridget, co-founder of the anti-education group, Moms for Liberty, and Christian, the disgraced former chair of the state’s GOP, who had been accused of raping the third member of the menage a trois,
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Ryan Zinke, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior who resigned under pressure from the Trump Administration after a series of ethics scandals,
Jeff Zucker, television executive who gave an open mic to Donald Trump, rehabilitating the disgraced real estate businessman as a business genius and then, as head of CNN, promoted the presidential candidate so the network could make money off the destruction of US democracy,
