Trump Told Kellyanne Conway to Criticize Jones on Fox

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek

Trump Told Kellyanne Conway to Criticize Jones on Fox
Newsweek
Jessica Kwong
5 hrs ago

President Donald Trump reportedly gave his counselor Kellyanne Conway personal approval to criticize Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones on “Fox and Friends” last week, an appearance that a former White House ethics chief says violated federal law.

Trump put Conway up on television after venting that Jones, a Democrat, has gotten an easy ride in the race because so much media attention has focused on sexual allegations against his opponent Republican Roy Moore, POLITICO reported on Wednesday. Trump, who has not explicitly endorsed Moore, was frustrated that more pressure wasn’t being applied on Jones ahead of the December 12 election.

Walter Shaub, who was director of the Office of Government Ethics under former President Barack Obama, highlighted Trump’s apparent role in a tweet on Wednesday morning and wrote, “That, my friends, is the very definition of a Hatch Act violation.”

The Hatch Act states that employees in the executive branch are prohibited from using their official authority or influence to affect the outcome of an election. Last Wednesday, Shaub filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which is responsible for investigating Hatch Act violations, stating that Conway the day prior had appeared in front of the White House in her official capacity advocating against Jones.

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[progressoid]

1. Ethics? Ha!

Who's going to do something about it? The GOP controlled government?

[pokerfan]

2. The GOP controlled judiciary?

[progressoid]

8. Even the republican public seems to have given up the charade of their "morality"

e.g. Roy Moore.

[icymist]

3. Fu$k! Nothing means nothing anymore.

We are really sinking fast!

[MurrayDelph]

5. Ethics are something

that Republicans only believe in when they can weaponize them against the Democrats.

[marble falls]

4. This regime is so out of the realm of any rule of law it is hard to keep up with its violations.

[KPN]

6. Will someone please end this national nightmare

so I can get at least one good night's rest for a change?!!!!

Seriously. If something doesn't end this moron's regime soon, it may become too late to do so without something really catastrophic happening.

[Thor_MN]

7. "personal approval" in this case would be conspiracy, no?

If Conway is guilty of violating the Hatch Act (she is), then Dolt45 just admitted that he was involved. He can't issue dispensations from law. Granted he can pardon someone after they are charged with the crime, but if he was involved with committing the crime, he is guilty of conspiracy to commit the crime.

[L. Coyote]

9. Mental illness.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. In the "what if it was a Democrat..." file..

Just another in a long long list of things that if a Democrat were in office right now (oh sweet jesus) this alone would be enough for a huge long investigation.

[JoFerret]

11. Powerful Lecherous Men and KellyAnne

https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/halperin-wieseltier-weinstein-powerful-lecherous-men.html