Russell Vought met with President Donald Trump on Thursday as more than just another MAGA goon ready to do the administration’s bidding, whatever it might be.

Now in his second stint as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Vought has proven himself to be a MAGA ghoul. He is someone who delights at the prospect of traumatizing federal employees he imagines to be part of a deep state that supposedly impedes Trump’s goals.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a videotaped speech cited by ProPublica last October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…”

He added, “We want to put them in trauma.”

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