Government investigators will look into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo illegally used his office for President Donald Trump’s political gain, the Office of Special Counsel said Monday.
Well, at least it’s nice to know there still is an Office of Special Counsel for the State Department. Despite Trump’s and Pompeo’s best efforts.
They’re going to need more wide-load prison cells.
Releasing emails for the sake of transparency can’t possibly be a violation of the Hatch Act…
But releasing them for obvious political purposes is. Usually, Hatch Act violations are addressed by reprimanding or dismissing the employee in question. If Trump wins reelection, Barr’s DOJ won’t pursue it. If Biden wins, one could say that the violation is moot. But the Hatch Act also provides for other penalties, though they’re paltry (max $1000 fine, for example). These clowns should be prosecuted nonetheless, just to reestablish the rule of law.
Do these idiots really think that releasing Hillary’s e-mails from eight years ago will change the mind of one single voter?
“Releasing emails for the sake of transparency can’t possibly be a violation of the Hatch Act,” the secretary said. “That’s a ridiculous question.”
If the purpose is “transparency”, you can wait until after the election, Mike.
Yes that is nice to know, albeit Pompeo will ignore them.
Well the amount of Trump staffers and appointee that have violated the Hatch Act multiple times could go a long way to paying down the debt if those fines are doubled, tripled and so forth for every subsequent violation. KAC’s fines alone could add up to a small country’s operating budget.
Hey, they think that releasing screenshots of obviously bogus Hunter Biden emails will change the minds of voters. They’re really, really slow.
And once released then their value is nothing.
Oh snap! Hillary Clinton is running for president in 2020. Yes, Donnie - elections are really hard. Nobody knew they could be so hard. And many people are saying they want you absolutely humiliated on Nov 3 - you barf bag posing as a human.
Wow, Clinton’s chances of electoral victory are pretty much shot now!
Yes. Yes, they do. That’s how friggin’ desperate they are.
Oh, that’s just the Rasmussen poll. Unreliable. I hear Hunter Biden is polling ahead in several swing States, however.
No, YOU’RE a ridiculous question!
Trying to find corruption in Trump’s administration is a bit like trying to count the number of bacteria in a dung heap. There’s just so much of it to work through in any direction that you look that it is easy to get lost.
Item #150 for the new Biden administration:
Rewrite the Hatch act to impose significant fines and jail time. Extend it to cover POTUS.
We’ve been waiting too long for Republicans to get back on the Good Governance Wagon. It’s time to force the issue.
Yes. It didn’t take much to trigger the stupid in Democrats 4 years ago. It doesn’t even have to be nefarious, just needs to be teased as nefarious. If it is nefarious sounding enough and if Republicans sound exasperated enough, Democrats will destroy anyone. Comey, may he rot in hell, validated the model and Gillibrand perfected it. It doesn’t take much more than hyperbole to bring down Democrats.
Mike Pompeo is the Chris Farley of Jackie Gleasons.
There are only two things that I can see that would prevent them from releasing emails said to be connected to Clinton. the first is that the emails don’t exist and are being written as we speak. The second is that even Pompeo realizes that this is a disaster of biblical proportions and doesn’t want to incriminate himself even more than he already has.