President Trump said in an interview with the New York Post published Thursday that he planned to deliver his nomination speech to the Republican National Convention from the White House lawn that the Battlefield of Gettysburg, the other site he had imagined.
After first fighting for conferences in Jacksonville, Florida, Trump canceled the plan in July due to the dangers of coronavirus, and said the vote for the inauguration would still take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, the siege. of the origin of the ‘Array rally and which would practically give its acceptance speech.
Trump said Monday that he had limited the physical places of the speech to the White House lawn and Gettysburg, prompting court cases of complaints alleging an imaginable ethical violation.
But Trump told the Post that he would go to Gettysburg at “a later date,” and said the White House is “a position that makes me feel smart, he’s smart for the country,” adding that it’s a convenient position for his secret. Detail of the service.
Trump went on to say that he “could do it outdoors on one of the lawns” in the face of the dangers “in terms of the Chinese virus.”
“We may have a total organization of people. It’s very big, a very giant lawn. We may have a giant organization of people,” Trump added.
“Trump delivering his speech at the South Garden conference is the clearest and greatest violation of the Hatch Act,” obama’s former management official, Richard Stengel, tweeted, saying that “hundreds of White House workers would rape it, not to mention allegations of illegal appropriation of Congressional Funds for political purposes.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (California Democrat) went further and told MSNBC, “Whether legally false or ethically out of the question, it doesn’t even deserve to have been expressed.”
“It’s legal. There is no Hatch act because it fears the president,” Trump said this month, adding that celebrating the speech at the White House “saves the government a lot of money in terms of security, travel.”
The special counsel’s workplace, which oversees violations of the Hatch Act, gave the green light Thursday for a speech on the White House lawn. The Wall Street Journal reported that the workplace sent a notice to a congressional committee that “the lawn and the White House apartment are not federal buildings,” which would mean that the Hatch Act does not apply if workers take leave.
I’m a journalist in the press workplace covering politics and the 2020 elections. In the past I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine. I attended Vassar College and London
I’m a journalist in the press workplace covering politics and the 2020 elections. In the past I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine. I attended Vassar College and London School of Economics.
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