OSC today issued a Hatch Act report documenting violations by 13 senior Trump administration officials, including at the 2020 Republican National Convention. https://t.co/qLW4h1Fsob
— OfficeSpecialCounsel (@US_OSC) November 9, 2021
9/2/20: Pompeo on his Jerusalem RNC speech: " All I can say in my role as Secretary of State is the State Department reviewed this, it was lawful"
11/9/21: Office of Special Counsel report concludes he violated the Hatch Act in two instances related to that speech, and notes: pic.twitter.com/yqrGfZJKiW
— Jennifer Hansler (@jmhansler) November 9, 2021
Before Pompeo addressed the Republican convention from Jerusalem, his aides told us that State Department lawyers had “signed off” on the event as “completely lawful and appropriate.” The opposite was true, the OSC found. (w/ @BryanLowry3, @jonshorman) https://t.co/hAo6BflGLJ
— Michael Wilner (@mawilner) November 9, 2021
State Department policy had prohibited political employees from speaking at political party conventions, but Mike Pompeo changed the rule four days before his RNC speech and stipulated that the change applied only to him, @darehgregorian reports.https://t.co/zRSeoEbO21
— Alex Johnson (@MAlexJohnson) November 10, 2021
The Office of Special Counsel has concluded that Secretary Pompeo’s August 2020 Jerusalem speech to the RNC violated the Hatch Act as @COFinkelstein and I alleged in our complaint.
Bush’s ethics lawyer calls for an investigation of Pompeo’s R.N.C. speech. https://t.co/y0cjbkseEX
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) November 9, 2021
“Pompeo, a possible 2024 presidential candidate, was also found to have improperly altered State Department policy in order to allow himself to speak during the RNC event at the White House.” https://t.co/LcDJfzT2MJ
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) November 9, 2021
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