trump is going to give his big convention speech from the South Lawn of the White House... which is a violation of the Hatch Act. Along with a number of other things trump did to break that law. Via Sam Gringlas at NPR:
The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in most political activity inside federal buildings or while on duty. Though the president and vice president are exempt from the civil provisions of the Hatch Act, federal employees like Pompeo, Wolf and any executive branch employees who helped stage the events are not.
Ethics watchdogs harshly criticized Trump's merging of official and campaign acts during the Tuesday night telecast.
The horrifying thing: It seems like the only ones who can investigate trump's criminality here is a Department of Justice that's totally in trump's pocket:
On Tuesday, House Democrats opened an investigation ahead of Pompeo's speech, but it's unlikely that any Trump administration officials will face reprimand for using their office to promote the president's reelection.
The Office of Special Counsel can investigate allegations of Hatch Act violations and weigh in on them, but in many cases, it's up to the employee's supervisor to act on the advice...
And trump has made it clear he's the supervisor and he doesn't give a rat's ass about the Hatch Act.
So just try to remember this, every non-Republican voter out there, and even some of you Republican voters who still give a damn about the law: The only way to hold trump accountable for all these law-breaking acts he's done is to vote the Shitgibbon out this November 2020.
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The damn fool stood up there and lied that he was prosecuting all federal crimes to the fullest extent of the law *while committing a federal crime*...
Even his lies tell lies.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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