Office Of Special Counsel: Trump's Social Media Director Violated Hatch Act

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published JUNE 9, 2017 1:14 PM

President Donald Trump’s official social media director was found to have violated the Hatch Act on Friday, for invoking his White House position while engaging in a political attack, the Office of Special Counsel wrote Friday.

In a tweet on April 1, White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino urged the constituents of Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) to vote him out of office.

Link to tweet

Three days later, the progressive watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints against both Scavino and Amash. The former it accused of using his office — his Twitter account “showed him standing in the Oval Office next to the official presidential flag,” CREW said — for political ends. The Office of Special Counsel agreed: Scavino, it said, “violated the Hatch Act.”

“Specifically, you alleged on April 1, 2017, Mr. Scavino, while invoking his official position at the White House posted a tweet calling for the defeat of Representative Justin Amash in a primary election,” chief of the Hatch Act Unit, Ana Galindo-Marrone, wrote to CREW. Galindo-Marrone added that Scavino had been warned, and that her office would consider such activity in the future “willful and knowing violation of the law.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dan-scavino-violates-hatch-act

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Hey,they gave him a wet kiss.

Letter of Reprimand,Geez.

[Dream Girl]

2. Be nice, they're new to this

They don't know any better

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Yup.

You can not cure or fix Stupid.