***WH Continues to Violate the Hatch Act.
Biden White House Continues to Use Trump Slogan ‘MAGA’ in Po-
tential Violation of Hatch Act / By Debra Heine June 16, 2023
The White House continued to use former President Donald J.
Trump’s campaign slogan “MAGA” disparagingly in public statements
this week, despite being notified by the Office of Special Counsel
(OSC) that using the term violated the Hatch Act and being warned
against using it again. The Hatch Act is a longstanding ethics law
that prohibits federal employees from using their offices to in-
fluence elections.
In a letter to the White House last week, the OSC informed
Jean-Pierre that she had violated the Hatch Act when she used the
phrase “MAGA Republicans” during a press conference in November.
The prosecutorial agency “decided to close this matter without
further action” but warned the White House that if the “prohibited
political activity” continued, they would “consider it a knowing
and willful violation of the law that could result in OSC pursuing
disciplinary action.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and deputy press
secretary Andrew Bates both issued statements this week containing
references to “MAGA,” willfully defying the OSC’s guidance.
“The hardcore MAGA budget just released by the Republican Study
Committee–which represents a majority of House Republicans–amounts
to a devastating attack on Medicare, Social Security, and Americans’
access to health coverage and prescription drugs,” Jean-Pierre said
in a statement on the White House website.
The GOP budget would slash spending by $16.3 trillion over the
next 10 years.
“This extreme MAGA proposal invests in the super wealthy and
the biggest corporations at the expense of hardworking families. It
is not just backward, it threatens all the economic progress the
President has made over the last two and a half years to rebuild
an economy that works for everyone,” the statement concludes.
Bates also attacked the Republican budget in a memo Wednesday
that repeatedly used the prohibited phrase.
The Biden regime began referring to “MAGA” derisively in the
leadup to the 2022 midterm elections as part of an ongoing effort
to portray its GOP opponents as a far-right “extremist threat” to
Democracy.
Joe Biden used the term repeatedly during his infamous “blood-
red” speech in Philadelphia on September 1, referring to Trump sup-
porters as “Ultra-MAGA” or “MAGA forces” who were a “threat to this
country.”
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the White House initi-
ally claimed Biden came up with the “ULTRA MAGA” phrase himself,
"but the Washington Post later revealed the messaging was the focus
-group tested result of a six-month research project from the Center
for American Progress Action Fund under the leadership of Biden
aide Anita Dunn.”
The Biden administration has a sordid history with the Hatch
Act. Former press secretary Jen Psaki, former White House chief of
staff Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra,
and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm have all violated the long-
standing ethics law, according to investigations from the Office of
Special Counsel.
The conservative watchdog group, Protect the Public’s Trust,
filed the Hatch Act complaint against Jean-Pierre in November. In a
new complaint to the OSC filed Thursday morning, the group called
Jean-Pierre and Bates’ statements a “deliberate thumb in the eye”
of federal authorities and demanded a formal investigation into
the White House’s “deliberate decision” to defy the agency’s legal
guidance.
“Is this the behavior the American public should expect from
the self-proclaimed most ethical administration in history?” Protect
the Public’s Trust director Michael Chamberlain told the Washington
Free Beacon. “We were promised a return to normalcy, respect for
the rule of law, and decency. Yet what we are getting is open mock-
ery of rules and standards in pursuit of political advantage.”
“Anyone wondering why trust in government continues its down-
ward spiral need look no further than this episode,” Chamberlain
added.
In a statement to WFB defending the regime’s continued use of
the prohibited slogan, Bates seemed to argue that the White House’s
defiance of the law was justified because an official at the OSC is
purportedly a MAGA Republican.
“If a former Trump campaign spokesperson who later worked under
Betsy DeVos in an administration that incurred a historic number of
Hatch Act violations qualifies as an ‘independent watchdog’ simply
because they bought a nametag, then I would like for you to de-
scribe to me in this article as a winner and Olympic gold medalist,”
said Bates.
“We take the Hatch Act seriously, and note that this exact
phrase has been used countless times by Republicans in elective
office to refer to official policy proposals, agendas, and related
values,” Bates added. “We have only ever used it in the same way.”
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Another lie from the Left. When Republicans refer to MAGA, it
is used as a slogan, not as a label.
I have heard on many occasions Biden himself, refer to the
average Republican as MAGA Republicans or those MAGA and that is
not calling out dozens of foul mouthed Democrats using the phrase
in a demeaning way.
So, as usual, Hatch Act or not, the Left still acts as if
they are above the law. So maybe Mr. Bates needs to practice what
he is preaching.
Think of it this way. Every American should serve the US and
want to "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN". There is NO doubt that Biden
and his misfit administration neither love America or care about
God or the American people and there is NO doubt that the corrupt
Left, DOJ, media, and brainwashed lemmings recognize truth, the
law, or the Constitution that so many have died to protect.
May God have mercy on their souls.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 