[4][5] In July 2020, Trump nominated Gibbs to be director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, but he was never confirmed by the Senate.

His time in the role was tumultuous, and in February 2024, the county board fired Gibbs, citing gross misconduct.

[7] Gibbs is a far-right conspiracy theorist;[9] he has a history of making false, inflammatory, and conspiratorial remarks on his Twitter feed,[4][5] including numerous tweets promoting fringe concepts and figures.

[10] On four occasions, he spread the false conspiracy theory that John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, took part in a "Satanic ritual," a claim propagated by far-right bloggers.

[4][11] In October 2016, Gibbs defended an alt-right figure who had frequently posted anti-Semitic comments and had been banned from Twitter.

[14] He was a frequent contributor to The Federalist, a right-wing website, and wrote in support of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

In 2020, Trump nominated Gibbs to be director of the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal workforce of about 2.1 million employees and acts as the executive branch's human resources function.

[10][16] During a September 2020 confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee,[10] Gibbs deflected questions over past conspiracy tweets.

[5] During the Republican primary campaign, Gibbs made his Trump endorsement and support for false election claims the centerpieces of his candidacy.

[19] In the final days of the primary, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee bought TV ads designed to raise Gibbs' profile, believing that Meijer would be the more difficult opponent in the general election.

[25] In September 2022, CNN reported that as a student at Stanford, Gibbs founded a self-described think tank called the Society for the Critique of Feminism.

"[26] In the general election, Democratic nominee Hillary Scholten flipped the district and defeated Gibbs, winning by a margin of 13 points.

[33] Emails obtained by the press under Michigan's freedom-of-information laws show that Gibbs ordered Epperson's hiring despite objections from other county officials.

[33] Gibbs selected Epperson although he had one only one of the five "mandatory criteria" listed in the county's job posting, picking him over the other finalist, who had two decades' more experience and more of the required qualifications.

[35] In March, 2024, Gibbs sued the county board for multiple claims, including violation of the Michigan Whistleblower Protection Act and Breach of Contract.