Meadows Dismisses Hatch Act Concerns: ‘Nobody Outside Of The Beltway Really Cares’

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday scoffed at concerns that the official government procedures that were carried out at the Republican National Convention (RNC) the night before, including a naturalization ceremony, were in violation of a law forbidding the use of government activity to boost political interests, aka the Hatch Act.


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Wrong again, Meadow Muffin.

The incoming Biden Administration Attorney General cares deeply.

And that’s all it takes to prosecute…

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Lawlessness and Disorder permeates this No-Platform Cult party!
Call a spade a spade…Trump et al violated the Hatch Act for political advantage to win re-election!

Note that penalty for the Hatch Act is removal from office with all pay revoked. And if the Merit Systems Protection Board finds by unanimous vote that the violation does not warrant removal, they are to be suspended for at least 30 days without pay…but Coverup Barr!

Dear ⁦@politico⁩,

I am a person. I am outside the Beltway. And I definitely “give a hoot about the president politicking from the White House [and] using the federal government to his political advantage.”

I’m sure I am not alone. https://t.co/OwCsEdq6dp

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) August 26, 2020
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Exactly - no one’s being prosecuted for it. No one will be. The whole thing is a joke with no teeth.

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That’s not exactly a real defense.

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Uh, we DO care and Joe will slap the cuffs on you and every other Putin Puppet engaged in treason!

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Fuck you Meadows
If it was the Democrats doing it the howls of outrage would be heard in Siberia

Remember how bent out of shape they were over a Tan Suit

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Somebody wake Orrin up and get him Grassley’s glasses.

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TheDifference

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Who really cares if a teenager in Kansas gets caught with pot?

Who really cares if a struggling mom shoplifts some food from a Walmart in Florida?

Who really cares if I drive my car 100 miles an hour on the interstate?

All of the above will be in big trouble. Once again, the laws don’t apply to Trump. But he is the law & order president. What a joke.

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“Nobody outside of the Beltway in the GOP really cares,” Meadows told Politico. “They expect that Donald Trump is going to promote Republican values break the law.

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The laws don’t apply to Trump or any other member of the Communist Republican Party.

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Using your logic, Mark, if your wife gets shot between the eyes in broad daylight and nobody cares, it would be okay? See how your logic is prevalent in penitentiaries?

And as for Obama doing this too, how come he never did?

And he STILL beat your asses like gongs.

(laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh)

NOTHING gets Trumpholes enraged faster than being told Obama beat them twice without working up a sweat.

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Nobody cares? Mmmkay.

So you’re making sure that those two enlisted kids in American Samoa who were in uniform in the background of the roll call at the Dem convention part week aren’t getting punished, right?

And I guess all of the other Feds no longer have to follow the rules, either.

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Bob Barr is going to make sure that there will never be a Biden AG.

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“Whatchagonnadoaboutit?”

End. Game.

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Exactly and it’s very obvious at this point. Republican Senators, other than Romney, who are supposed to be leaders won’t say a damn thing.

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So let’s start only enforcing laws that people care about, and let people violate the laws that polling reflects people don’t care about.

Seems legit.

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How he feels about America and it’s citizens. Amirite?

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“The campaign decided to use the publicly available content for campaign purposes,” the White House official said. “There was no violation of law.”

:thinking:

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