Who is P Brennan Hart III? Trump's GSA appointee who had rooftop sex and drank vodka at work launches new PAC
P Brennan Hart III, a senior government official appointed by former president Donald Trump who made the headlines after having rooftop sex at work, has launched a new political action committee (PAC). Business Insider reported citing paperwork filed on Monday, March 29, that Hart’s new PAC is called the Federal Election Commission and he is the only official listed on the paperwork.
The Insider report, however, said that the exact mission of the committee is not clear from the filing or which candidate the fundraising group intends to back. PACs may also gather funds to try to elect or defeat candidates and need to register with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Hart though did not respond to Insider’s request for comment. Hart’s latest venture is yet to have a working website, the Daily Mail reported and as per the FEC documents, it will be based in Alexandria, Virginia, just across the Potomac River in DC.
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Hart is a longtime GOP insider
Hart is a longtime member of the GOP who has worked on the campaigns of former president George W Bush and presidential candidate John McCain besides Rick Scott’s campaign in 2010 to become Florida’s governor, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has also served in the Bush administration (2001-2009) as a White House advance representative and senior advisor at the housing and urban development department. Hart studied political science at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and history at the National University of Ireland.
Trump appointed him to be an associate administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) just months after taking over office. Hart worked as the agency’s “principal liaison to Congress, federal agencies and state and local governments,” according to a press release announcing his appointment. Hart was also the lead advance representative for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and is currently working as the principal of Three Rivers Solutions LLC, which provides campaign management, issues advocacy and event planning and management services to political campaigns, trade associations and corporate clients, both in the US and abroad.
Hart’s sex scandal
However, less than two months into his job at GSA, Hart took a White House staffer into the GSA office building where they drank vodka and had sex. It was on July 1, 2017. The details of the incident came out in the open after a GSA inspector general reported about it in March 2018. The identity of the White House staffer was not revealed. Facing investigators, Hart said that he had escorted the aide into the GSA’s central office building.
“He stated he escorted [the White House staffer] into the GSA Central Office building and made them each a drink with the bottle of vodka he kept in his desk. He said their sexual activity began in the Administrator suite area and culminated with oral sex on the rooftop of the Central Office,” the report said, adding: “Hart stated this occurred on only one occasion.” The act was not approved since “having sex in the central office building is not an authorized purpose for use by the public,” the report added. “Further, there is no law or GSA regulation that allows an employee to have sex in the building.” The report also spoke on Hart’s alcohol use in the office.
Hart left the GSA the same month the report came out. He was then the agency’s chief of staff but the matter was never presented for criminal prosecution, according to the report.
GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, who made the headlines last year after briefly delaying the White House transition from Trump to President Joe Biden, told the inspector general’s office that she allowed drinking of alcohol in her office by her immediate staff after work on Fridays, the Insider report said, adding she also said that she was not aware of the formal approval required for drinking alcohol on federal property. Hart, too, said the same.
