Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has one very direct question about President Trump's potential Republican National Convention speech venue.After The Washington Post reported Trump might give his RNC nomination acceptance speech from the White House's South Lawn, Trump confirmed the idea to Fox News
Sen. John Thune has one very direct question about President Trump's potential Republican National Convention speech venue.
After The Washington Post reported Trump might give his RNC nomination acceptance speech from the White House's South Lawn, Trump confirmed the idea to Fox News on Wednesday. And considering that would mean Trump was using government property for a political purpose, Thune pointedly asked Wednesday"Is that even legal?"
"I assume there's some Hatch Act issues or something," Thune continued while talking to reporters on Wednesday."I don't know the answer to that but I haven't, and I haven't heard him say that. But I think anything you do on federal property would seem to be problematic," Thune continued. The Hatch Act bars federal employees from using government property to engage in political tasks, or from performing political tasks while on federal duty. The president and vice president aren't subject to the Hatch Act, though if his federal employees help make the RNC speech happen, they might fall under its purview.
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