Ja Rule Trump’s Fyre Festival continues as spectacle becomes part of the US nation’s “creative” destruction. Donnie unwinds protocol and moves the federal government devolution forward … he doesn’t stand by anything. But Wilbur Ross remains amused by death from above as he violates the Hatch Act. Will the Logan Act be next?
It is about the after-dinner entertainment as Wilbur may have violated the Hatch Act (again) while having Trump walk the pageant runway in Harrisburg TMI.
The Hatch Act of 1939 states that, apart from the President and Vice President, no other Executive Branch employee can use his or her position to campaign for a candidate. This means sitting cabinet members are forbidden from participating in campaign events of any type. And yet Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross not only attended Donald Trump’s Saturday night campaign rally in Harrisburg, he went around the room actively campaigning.
In fact, not only did Ross violate the Hatch Act by campaigning for Trump at the event, White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders arguably violated the Hatch Act just by tweeting the above photo (link) and adding Trump’s “MAGA” campaign slogan as a caption. Violating the Hatch Act doesn’t send you to prison, but the penalties are supposed to be rather severe (link). Trump isn’t likely to voluntarily discipline Ross for the violation, meaning Democrats and the American public must make a big deal out of Ross’s criminal act on Saturday night
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