The Trump administration has no respect for the Hatch Act

Ivanka Trump

Jared Kushner

Kayleigh McEnany

Larry Kudlow

Marc Short

Dan Brouliette

Andrew Giuliani

These former Trump admin officials (and more!) still need to face consequences for apparent violations of the Hatch Acthttps://t.co/8bywJPy1SB

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 19, 2021

Donald Trump's ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, violated the Hatch Act when she urged Americans to donate to Trump's campaign using her official Twitter account.

Now, President Biden must decide what to do about it. https://t.co/T9aOY7tdGW

— POLITICO (@politico) February 19, 2021

We need a better way to explain the Hatch Act, so here: It prevents taxpayer-funded government workers from working as campaign operatives on your dime. Please message accordingly.

— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) August 29, 2020

Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity at work. It is an abuse of taxpayer funds to use public buildings for politics. It is illegal to invite subordinates to political events because it pressures them to support a particular candidate. https://t.co/LeeGPzfDLy

— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) August 28, 2020

Trump tests limits as Cabinet members fan out to key stateshttps://t.co/R0graXVqmU

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 29, 2020

Kayleigh McEnany has suddenly been appearing from the Trump campaign HQ on TV as both a White House press secretary and a campaign senior adviser, encapsulating the ignoring of the Hatch Act and total blurring of lines in the administration https://t.co/JMZ2azIRvF

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 29, 2020

Ivanka Trump appears to have violated the Hatch Act a staggering 30 TIMES on Twitter alone since this was published two weeks ago.https://t.co/X7btvrQClE

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 28, 2020

BREAKING: Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was just ordered to reimburse the government after violating the Hatch Act following a complaint by CREW https://t.co/mRVyqjNQQt

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 8, 2020

Trump and his team have made a mockery of our ethics laws and turned the federal government into his own partisan campaign arm. I have a new 22-page report on the lawlessness of the most corrupt administration in US history. Here’s what I found:https://t.co/Fbx6iwdayt

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 29, 2020

BREAKING: We just filed a complaint calling for the termination of Peter Navarro following his repeated violations of the Hatch Act https://t.co/J8YBAjshXl

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 5, 2020

So… let me get this straight … these Trumpists stole a quarter BILLION dollars from the CDC and other agencies that was meant for actually fighting the virus and are giving it to Caputo’s BUSINESS PARTNERS to make feel-good “corona yay!” celebrity ads? https://t.co/eD5x20osbt

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) September 26, 2020

To summarize this $300 million gov’t ad campaign:

—Conceived by Trump appointee.
—Featuring Trump-friendly celebrities.
—Reinforces Trump messaging.
—Paid for with diverted CDC funds, w/o CDC input.
—Subcontractor is business partner of Trump appointee. https://t.co/6on4C2258B

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 26, 2020

Democrats say the letter violates the law against using government resources to campaign. It’s just the latest example of President Trump using his office to boost his reelection hopes. https://t.co/uPznEoTZ2C

— ProPublica (@propublica) September 26, 2020

The Office of the Special Counsel has started investigating Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for potentially violating the Hatch Act, after she slammed Joe Biden in a Fox News interview and her agency promoted it through official channelshttps://t.co/kF7WLUkbvb

— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2020

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf’s violation of the Hatch Act was one of many that occurred during the conventions. But his violation included a naturalization ceremony broadcasted without the participants’ consent, making it among one of the worst.https://t.co/iJt9xlfC2L

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 8, 2020

There were so many potential Hatch Act violations at the RNC that they are hard to count. Hatch Act violations are investigated and enforced by the Office of Special Counsel. @CongressmanRaja and I requested an investigation of this weeks events: pic.twitter.com/mdDjbSqYNq

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 28, 2020

It is a violation of federal law.

Every single Federal employee who helped set that up and or carry it out violated the Hatch Act.

If Trump directed them to do this, so did he. https://t.co/A1i04VCNZH

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) August 28, 2020

When I was in charge of the Hatch Act in the White House, I walked into the office of a senior staffer who loved the Grateful Dead.

They had an autographed an Obama campaign sign for him & he had hung it up.

I made him take it down: politics in the federal workplace are illegal https://t.co/ii7EWdjy8E

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) August 28, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the #2 GOP Senator John Thune said anything done “on federal property would seem to be problematic.”

Such opposition went silent very quickly. https://t.co/Eh3TEmkmme

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 28, 2020

This isn’t theoretical or vague. Trump stole your tax dollars to put on a campaign event. Every staffer involved starting with @MarkMeadows should be prosecuted. It’s criminal. https://t.co/L0RE1MhzWS

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) August 28, 2020

President Trump plans to accept his party’s nomination for president from the White House on Thursday. It’s expected to be the last of several violations of the Hatch Act over the course of the RNC.https://t.co/yXlMhRtsYK

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 26, 2020

At least 13 Trump officials illegally campaigned while in office, federal investigation finds. https://t.co/OMNWpVJrih

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) November 9, 2021

I humbly suggest that the Hatch Act's reliance on the good faith of presidents and administration officials did not do much to bind Donald Trump. https://t.co/SVutjQwz6h

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 9, 2021

Many career government employees, like me, took the Hatch Act very seriously. We didn't use taxpayer dollars to support a political party. Going undisciplined for multiple violations after being warned b/c the POTUS you worked for didn't care would have been unthinkable. https://t.co/onJLEaqX60

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 18, 2022