Federal watchdog says Trump can give convention speech at White House
Source: CBS News
Washington The U.S. Office of Special Counsel confirmed federal law does not preclude President Trump from delivering a speech at the White House to accept the GOP's presidential nomination during this month's Republican National Convention.
The guidance from the agency came in an advisory opinion issued in response to a request from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, concerning the Hatch Act, a federal law that governs the political activity of executive branch employees. The Office of Special Counsel is an independent agency responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act and other laws concerning federal employees.
"The president and the vice president are not covered by any provisions of the Hatch Act," Erica Hamrick, deputy chief of the office's Hatch Act Unit, told Maloney in a letter Wednesday. "Accordingly, the Hatch Act does not prohibit President Trump from delivering his RNC acceptance speech on White House grounds."
After the coronavirus pandemic forced Mr. Trump to abandon plans for convention festivities, including his acceptance speech, in Jacksonville, Florida, he said last week he narrowed down possible sites for the address to the White House and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)So any WH staffer who participated in setting up or assisting His Lardship with the speech would be violating the law.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)kiri
(786 posts)In DC or Gettysburg, we need 1000 cars and vans, 100 motorcycles, and 20 food trucks, to come the night before and occupy all the roads, create long lines everywhere.
At every intersection, block the box. You can't move cars out if there is no place to put them. ½ hr to move one car-length.
If trumpino calls out the national guard, it will only make the situation worse. His motorcade of 10 SUVs will never get there.
Nothing illegal here, just a whole lot of cars, traffic jams, and gridlock.
Jedi Guy
(3,171 posts)He'd simply get into Marine One and fly there. All it'd do is inconvenience and piss off the people who live there.
LiberalFighter
(50,490 posts)EarlG
(21,889 posts)any White House employee who helps set up or manage this event in any way would be breaking the law.
Not that they care.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)EarlG
(21,889 posts)The list of prohibited activities for less restricted people still looks pretty restrictive...
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)even if it were, who's gonna do anything but whine about it?
EarlG
(21,889 posts)"Less restricted federal employees may not: ... Engage in political activity i.e., activity directed at the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group ... For example, while at work employees may not: Distribute campaign materials or items, display campaign materials or items, perform campaign related chores..."
But yeah, either way, nobody is going to care.
jls4561
(1,241 posts)Talk about your shitshows!
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)sorry to say.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)MissMillie
(38,452 posts)Maybe one more image of the White House with a big turd in it will remind voters to pick up their pooper-scooper.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)The rest of the country? *YAWN*