pardoning a convicted felon"The president held a naturalization ceremony and pardoned an individual, which were official White House events," the official said in a statement. "The White House publicized the content of both events on a public website afternoon and the campaign decided to use the publicly available content for campaign purposes."
The Hatch Act bars federal employees besides the president from engaging in political activities in their official capacity. Critics charged that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf's presiding over a pre-tapedViolations of the act can result in disciplinary actions or removal from the government, though such a strong response has not taken place in light of high-profile instances.
"Can they campaign from their official office? Absolutely not. But we also know that those lines are blurred," Meadows said.
They literally break the law every day, which is why you're barely reporting half the list anymore.
The White House doesn't get to interpret the law. We've been over this for the last 4 years, seems like every week.
Dems are a jealous corrupt bunch ... Trump administration just brokered the 1st ever historic peace deal between Israel and UAE. Democrat are feeling there at victory in November slipping away.
If trump can golf at his properties, he can campaign from them. Get out of the White House chump!
Hilarious....stop your crying
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When I went into the service and I still remember like it was yesterday, I took an oath to protect and defend the United States and the Constitution Trump and a lot of the GOP Senators took an oath and clearly not honoring it
senatemajldr YOU KNOW THIS IS BULLSHIT. JESUS, I AM GLAD GOD IS ALIVE AND WILL INSURE YOU'RE REMOVED, ALONG WITH THIS VILE CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION
No violation of law at the King's table!
Oddly, legal scholars say otherwise. And they have far more credibility than the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Um, 'for campaign purposes' essentially admits to violating Hatch. Some defense this is!
All they do is break the law
Conor Rogers 🏴☠️ conorjrogers · 1h Do not say: 'Trump violated the Hatch Act!!!' Do say: 'Trump has funneled campaign money to his friends and family, and is using your tax dollars for his campaign events'
/3 Your one and only takeaway is the campaign saying Trump is the gatekeeper of western civilization, when Trump himself has said, he’s not responsible for any of it. Those two don’t go together.
/2 (1) does Trump deserve another 4 yrs and is the nation looking to move on; (2) is Biden a better option going forward. It really is that simple.
At times, it seems Trump & Co. do these things just to watch the left lose its collective mind & to see how fast Pelosi & Schiff respond with their 107,864,906th investigation. Like the whiny child who runs screaming to mom every time a sibling sticks their tongue out at them.
Refering to The White House, founded by Forefathers is not the same white house NBC NEWS is referring to. That one is by no means an accurate representation of the REAL White House that prior presidents' lived and conducted a legal presidency. Real WH waiting 4 Joe 2 move in.
Yes there was!!
Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act to campaign for Obama. She was found to have broken the law by the Office of Special Counsel, which referred the manner to WH for discipline and Obama did nothing and nobody gave a toss. The outrage over Pompeo is a joke.
MeetThePress The Hatch Act of 1939, Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a US federal law. Its main provision prohibits all employees in the executive branch of the federal government [3] , except the president and vice president [4] , from engaging in some forms of political activity
More White House Bullshit & lies Hold them accountable
MeetThePress Always finding ways around the law, is not how my mother raised me! I’m sorry your mother raised u wrong. BUT, mine raised me to accept my consequences as well! BYE-DON 🚂🌊🌊🌊🌊✊🇺🇸😷
Proving that this administration, that touts itself as being the law &order administration, doesn't know the law and can't establish order.
MeetThePress In other words-“We got caught, now we’ll just lie and deny”
Social media attorneys don't know anything about the law. They jus parrot what some other social media attorneys tweeted/posted.
MeetThePress A manufactured issue......
Don't have American Indian blood flowing through your veins? You're an immigrant! If you were born on US soil, You're an American by birth! Immigrants have made America great! realDonaldTrump is an abomination to the principles in the Constitution! Donnie's not above the law!
Good way to distract from 180,000 deaths and a shattered economy.
Perfect this administration foes off in 2 dirextions both are wrong!
MeetThePress Mike Pomposity's speech was publicly available content?
Yes there is a violation of the Hatch Act! Just because you lie and say it’s not a violation, that doesn’t make it legal. Republicans you will never recover from the Trump disaster.
MeetThePress The Trumps think the White House is theirs.