Posted on 11/04/2022 9:16:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Jean-Pierre has previously expressed knowledge of the restrictions placed upon her by the Hatch Act.
Watchdog group Protect the Public's Trust has called for an investigation into White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after making public comments she made that appeared to endorse partisan political messaging.
PPT wrote to the Office of Special Counsel after Jean-Pierre spoke from the official podium in the White House briefing room on Wednesday, saying "Unfortunately, we have seen mega MAGA Republican officials who don't believe in the rule of law. They refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections, and they fan the flames of political violence through what they praise and what they refuse to condemn."
File Jean-Pierre Hatch Act Letter PDF FILE AT LINK................
The Hatch Act bars public officials, excluding the president and vice president, from engaging in partisan political activity.
"Ms. Jean-Pierre made these statements during an official press briefing, in her role as Press Secretary, from her podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room bearing the White House's name, standing in front of the White House's insignia," PPT's letter read. "Her statements were clearly made in her role as an employee of the White House and appear to be political in nature, seeking the defeat of her political opponents in the Republican party in the upcoming general election less than a week away on November 8."
Jean-Pierre has previously expressed knowledge of the restrictions placed upon her by the Hatch Act, explicitly referencing it multiple times in a press briefing earlier this year. PPT recalled that meeting and asserted that observers could not dismiss her Tuesday comments as born from ignorance of the restrictions the law places upon her.
"Ms. Jean-Pierre has acknowledged as much herself on repeated occasions when informing the media that she is incapable of answering certain questions or is limited in her responses under the Hatch Act," the letter continued.
Jean-Pierre's contentious statements came ahead of a high-profile, highly bellicose speech from President Joe Biden on Wednesday evening that denounced former President Donald Trump as a "self-seeking autocrat" [sic] and maligned his supporters as a threat to democracy.
In October, Biden White House chief of staff Ron Klain received a warning from the Office of Special Counsel over a tweet he made promoting Democratic Party merchandise.
Biden tried to get General Flynn put in prison using the Hatch act.
Did anybody really think a French, lesbian, teenybopper Cabbage Patch Kid would be aware of anything called the Hatch Act?
Flynn doesn’t have Black Democrat Lesbian immunity.
She’ll never be charged with anything. However, a Republican would have been.
She was prolly reading something written by someone else. This does not excuse the Hatch Act violation.
Very fitting description, there.
She outta to check her idiot privilege.
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Isn’t this exactly what Biden was doing with that hateful speech the otgher night? That was a partisan political act by the president made to look like security.
The Hatch Act excludes the POTUS AND VPOTUS.............
Thanks, didn’t know that.
Yeah, and your not supposed to preach politics from the pulpit during election season, but it happens at every predominantly African-American church in the USA and nobody bats an eyelash.
The Hatch Act is a close second in legal dead letters. It’s regularly used by both political parties to harass the other. But usually the offender is allowed to wiggle out of it, even if a formal charge is brought. It’s the equivalent of cheating in golf. Frowned upon. Publicly condemned. But, unlike golf, never a disqualification.
I used to work as a contractor on a Navy Base.
A civilian lost her job because of the Hatch Act.
She stood OUTSIDE THE GATE with a campaign sign and waved at people coming on and going off base.....................
Karine Jean-Pierre is too stupid to understand the “Hatch Act”—or most everything else!!!!
Probably thinks it has to do with chickens..................
At 48 years old, she’s not a “teenybopper”!
Damn that’s old for a Cabbage Patch Kid.
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Not chronologically, developmentally...
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