A Trump official has been moonlighting as a fashion influencer
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Summary
Civil servants in the US were tense on 11 February, waiting to see if their jobs or federal agencies as a whole would be axed as President Trump and Elon Musk dismantled the government.
However, one Trump official was indifferent to the turmoil, focusing instead on her side-gig as a fashion Influencer.
McLaurine Pinover, the communications director at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was uploading videos to Instagram of herself modelling outfits in the office, with the captions “new office, new office look” and “me and my emotional support shoulder sweater”.
Pinover has since deleted her Instagram account, but CNN found cached pages that revealed she was trying to make money from her content via affiliate links.
Her posts were filmed on taxpayers’ time and resources, which government watchdogs said may violate ethics rules.