Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday admonished President Trump for using the White House as a “prop” in the Republican National Convention.
“He continues to flaunt every single basic rule and basic tenet that Democrats and Republicans both have adhered to. He’s using the White House as a prop now,” Biden said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
“Look what’s going on in terms of the Hatch Act,” he added, while conceding, “I know people don’t know what the Hatch Act is.”
Democrats and others this week have focused on the federal law, which prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in political activity in their official capacity, while blasting Trump for holding political events on White House grounds.
The law does not apply to the president or vice president, though critics have questioned whether other officials have violated the law by using White House resources for certain events at the convention.
Read more at The Hill.
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President Trump is gonna talk from the BASEMENT of the White House – is that OK with Sleepy Joe?
can’t wait for the President to debate Sleepy Joe and knock him out right away……………….
VOTE FOUR MORE YEARS for PRESIDENT TRUMP and all the way REPUBLICANS…………………
The abcnews web site has an article dated 2012:
> “President Obama’s newest campaign commercial was filmed inside the West Wing of the White House”
The excuse given on behalf of Obama is that previous presidents had done similar things, as example:
> “When President Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996 he was featured in the Oval Office” (video evidence is presented by the web site)