Trump Official Made Fashion Influencer Videos At Work, CNN Says

A key member of President Donald Trump’s communications team at the Office of Personnel Management was caught making fashion videos in her government office for her Instagram page ― complete with affiliate links for fans hoping to purchase the looks, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Footage captured by CNN shows OPM communications chief McLaurine Pinover in her office modeling various outfits, posing, and in one case blowing a kiss to the camera.

The network said time stamps showed many of the videos were posted during work hours.

On Feb. 13, when 20 people on her own team were laid off, she posted a video showing off a dress along with the caption “a moment for mixed patterns.”

“To post that video the very day your entire team is getting laid off is ridiculous,” Jack Miller, who was OPM communications director during the Biden administration, told the network.

CNN said she used affiliate links, which would give her a small cut of any purchases made by her 800 followers.

She closed the account when CNN asked about it, although a Google search still shows some of the posts and thumbnails. The network said it’s not clear if she made any money from the videos in which she modeled items such as a $297 dress and a $475 skirt.

But as she filmed these videos, OPM was helping to oversee mass layoffs and other cutbacks that potentially impact hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Pinover would defend those moves from that same office, such as the statement she issued last month when the government laid off probationary workers.

“The probationary period is a continuation of the job application process, not an entitlement for permanent employment,” she told NPR.

After Elon Musk sent his infamous email demanding that workers list five things they did that week, she claimed the move showed the administration’s “commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce.”

When a federal judge lifted a court order pausing a worker buyout program, Pinover said she was “pleased,” and in another instance slammed union leaders for doing “a serious disservice” to workers by urging them to reject those buyout offers.

She also praised those buyout offers as “a rare, generous opportunity” for federal workers.

Pinover, a political appointee, was previously an executive assistant in Trump’s office during his first term, and then assistant press secretary at Homeland Security later in the term, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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