never has the office of special counsel had to issue multiple reports to the president concerning hatch act violations by the same individual. never. there has never been a kellyanne conway on the federal government payroll before. the special counsel s 17-page report begins with a simple sentence that everyone in the federal government not working in the trump white house understands. the hatch act prohibits federal civilian executive branch employees from using their official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election. the report specified kellyanne conway s multiple violations of the hatch october on twitter and on television in which she criticized the campaigns of democratic candidates for president and supported president trump s re-election campaign. the special counsel cited our reporting on may 1st of this year showing a hatch act
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in a may 29, 2019 interview, ms. kellyanne conway, counselor to the president reportedly scoffed at her responsibilities under the hatch act and ridiculed its enforcement by asserting let me know when the jail sentence starts. her defiant attitude is inimical to the law and her continued pattern of misconduct is unacceptable. the u.s. office of special counsel calls on presidentialer to remove her from her position immediately. the response was ms. conway s comment was taken out of context. okay, here s what happened after a reporter asked kellyanne conway in the white house driveway about violating the hatch act. first she did what she does to most questions. she ignored it and did a full three-minute rant against joe biden ending this way. joe biden all an of that is part of his record.
for two years, we ve been reporting on kellyanne conway s public and willful violations of the hatch act and today the office of special counsel which enforces the hatch act cited our reporting in its report to the president recommending that president trump fire kellyanne conway. special counsel is aer. the office run by a trump appointee. republican henry kerner. this office has nothing to do with robert mueller s office which is also a special counsel s office established within the justice department. henry kerner was counsel to the house oversight committee when it was chaired by darrell issa. he was the staffer director of investigations for the house oversight committee whether it was chaired by republican republican jason chai vets. his washington resume is purely republican and highly partisan and he even he could not abide the conduct of kellyanne conway. in his letter to the president, henry kerner said if miss conway were any other federal employee, her multiple violations
the imprimatur of the u.s. government who are being paid by taxpayers to do the people s business to abuse that office, who abuse that opportunity, to abuse that platform to play petty politics to crap on other politicians, to try to put the opposition party in the gutter. that s what happens in countries that we look down on and say you guys need to have better democratic norms. government officials shouldn t be playing politics. and yet in the hatch act enshrines that. kellyanne conway doesn t seem to respect that particular law, that particular idea. there is no criminal penalty, so she may think she can get away with it. but listen, this is not just rules for rule s sake, some minor stuff that doesn t matter. it really does matter. if somebody is standing up representing the government, representing the white house, standing in front of the white house, wearing that honor, they should be doing the people s business, not the party s business, not the politicians business. and the h