The U.S. Capitol in Washington is shrouded in mist in December 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (CN) Many federal employees struggle during a change in executive leadership, but former President Donald Trump saw so much pushback from within that Twitter accounts like RoguePOTUSStaff and RogueWhiteHouse popped up within days of his tenure.
When Trump faced his first impeachment in 2018, the Office of Special Counsel an independent agency that handles personnel issues in the federal government issued a memo to government employees telling them to refrain from talking about the event or anything relating to “resistance.”
“Advocating for a candidate to be impeached, and thus potentially disqualified from holding federal office, is clearly directed at the failure of that candidate’s campaign for federal office,” the memo said. The office said such speech would violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from supporting or opposi