MAX PRIMORAC
Multiple roles
2018-2021
IT’S ILLEGAL FOR FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO CAMPAIGN AT WORK. A TRUMP OFFICIAL JUST DID SO.
Primorac then added, "President Trump will win again, but I’m very confident that this is now an American project.”
July 18, 2019
PENCE’S “SPECIAL ENVOY” IN FOREIGN AID OFFICE SPARKED AN ETHICS COMPLAINT JUST WEEKS AFTER HE STARTED HIS JOB
In early 2018, an incoming Trump political appointee and ally of Vice President Mike Pence made an unusual suggestion to a United Nations agency whose funding hinged on support from a skeptical Trump administration: He pitched them to do business with one of his private-sector clients.
May 13, 2020
TOP TRUMP APPOINTEE AT USAID TELLS COLLEAGUES NOT TO SUPPORT BIDEN TRANSITION
November 9, 2020
Primorac’s behavior while at USAID over the past two years has raised eyebrows among his colleagues. In 2019, Primorac expressed confidence during a government forum that Trump would win reelection. An independent agency investigated the incident and found that Primorac did not violate the Hatch Act, which bars government officials from engaging in political activities on the job.
And in 2018, just before he joined USAID, Primorac promoted a client’s business interests to a U.N. agency funded by USAID, ProPublica reported. The client pitch sparked an ethics complaint by a State Department official, though the USAID inspector general declined to open an investigation of the incident.