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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel found Peter Navarro, a senior adviser to the president, violated the Hatch Act.

Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner reported Navarro used his official authority in televised appearances and on social media to influence the 2020 presidential election in defiance of the Act, which prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch from participating in certain political activities.

Kerner is recommending disciplinary action for Navarro. It’s unlikely the administration will punish him. However, a growing number of Democrats are calling for further investigations into senior Trump aides.

Forbes’ Andrew Solender reports:

Navarro, an assistant to the president and the director of the Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, repeatedly attacked President-elect Joe Biden in media interviews and on social media in the months before the election, the office said. In one instance cited by the office, Navarro used his Twitter account to argue that “nice guys don’t vote for NAFTA and China’s entry into the WTO and destroy American factories and jobs like Joe did.”

The Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that investigates Hatch Act violations and other matters, referred the report to the president for “appropriate disciplinary action.” The White House has declined to act on the reports in the past and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Politico over the summer that “nobody outside of the Beltway really cares” about the violations.

The 1939 Hatch Act is restricts federal workers from engaging in specific political activity in an effort to prevent members of the executive branch from interfering in elections. Prohibited activities include running for office, hosting fundraisers, making campaign speeches or distributing campaign materials.




Comments

  1. Are you on Parler? I am no longer on Facebook, but would LOVE to put this on Parler for my followers. Never been a fan of Navarro, but I AM a fan of President Trump!!

  2. John Kerry has been guilty of violations of the Hatch Act within the last four years, but Deep State agents of the era of Obamanation manage to avoid prosecution.

  3. Hell the democrats are doing it all the time, but because a republican does it is wrong. you need to get off your high horse and go after the democrats who will sell america to china. and what about the democrats paying off the judges in georiga to throw out Trump’s lawsuits. that judge needs to get run over by a mack truck to unscrable his stupid brains. We the people know what is going on and we also know there is no way ass hole biden got all the votes they say he did. He biden is a crooked son-of a bitch and screws his dog in the shower when there are no little girls available to him

  4. all these crooked judges need to be impeached and thrown to the dogs they are suppose to inforce the laws but instead they get paid off by the democrats to not inforce the laws only to break them. who the hell are we suppose to inforce the laws if our justice system takes payoffs not to.

    1. These crooked Judges (Obama holdovers, are paid to swing decisions liberals way. Even john Roberts on the Supreme Court takes money

  5. OMG, doesn’t it ever end with the crazy Demoncrats? Do they realize how many people do not respect them, like them, or want them in office. They will pay big time in 2022. Can’t wait!

  6. The 1939 Hatch Act is restricts federal workers from engaging in specific political activity in an effort to prevent members of the executive branch from interfering in elections. Prohibited activities include running for office, hosting fundraisers, making campaign speeches or distributing campaign materials.
    So which of these restrictions/prohibitions did Navarro violate exactly? Last time I looked, people serving in the Administration are still free to express their opinion about the opposition. It’s called THE 1ST AMENDMENT!!

  7. That’s the difference in Democrat’s and Republican’s! Democrat’s drool all over themselves to take down a Republican and especially one connected to Trump! Republican’s just talk about it! Bring down Kerry! They will either punish him or show how crooked, we already know, the Democratic judges are!

  8. What federal worker(s) are they referring to-? President Trump and his cabinet work for We the People. Our tax $$$ pay their salaries. But, President Trump donates his salary to various charitable organizations.

  9. The Democratic Left is worried about Peter Navarro telling the truth about Biden, but we are to look the other way that the Left STOLE the election. Hypocrisy at its best. Leave Navarro alone!
    And if they want to really look into a politician’s history, let’s see what Hillary Clinton did that was against the law and treasonous to our country.

  10. HOW ABOUT JOHN CARY AND OTHERS AND BIDENS CARACUDA THEY ARE GUILTY OF HATCH ACT VIOLATION AND THE COMUNIST CRIMINAL BIDEN WHOS MAKING A LOT OF MONEY SELING OUR COUNTRY TO TERORISTS CRIMINALS

  11. You do know we aren’t going to take much more of this bullcrap. 74 million are about to rise to these liberal scumbags

  12. Most democrat advisor are busy committing voter election fraud…under the table ballots, restocking ballots, ballot harvesting, Dominion ballot switching, paying for votes, etc…..

  13. Oh please! Obama, Clinton, Comey, Kerry, Pelosi, Schiff and many others all have transgressed Americas interests. They’ve given Iran $1,9 million, sold Americas uranium to Russia, sold Americas security to China and turned their backs on Americas desperate for income!

  14. Since our so called ‘judges’ are lying ,cheating ,crooked and are definitely bought AND PAID FOR – we no longer have an honest justice system !!! We ALL know what this will bring !!! Americans are completely FED UP with the Socialist judges and things are going to change !

  15. And the Obama admin never did any of this? And of course the Dems, those hypocritical, two-faced liars would want to pounce on this…

  16. The Hatch Act….. it might have been a “good idea” over a hundred years ago when it was written, but has never been used. That is, before Trump was elected. The DNC, by the example cited against the Trump Admin, would have to answer for it’s violations of the Hatch since President Grant.

  17. I fall under the Hatch Act And from what is written here I don’t see this being a violation. He isn’t advocating for Trump. He is discussing how Biden’s states policies are not good. He wasn’t wearing a Trump hat or shirt or political pin while doing so. Discussing policy issues effecting his office is not a campaign appearance and does not fall under the Hatch act.

  18. Thousands of government employees have acted against Trump in this last four years. And not a single one of them has been reported for violations of this very act. Just a start. Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Wray, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and maybe even Barr. So a government official can turn traitor like MAD DOG did and it is not illegal. But if he says something FOR the conservative president suddenly it is illegal. I want Kerner’s head on a platter. He is part of the insurrection.

  19. The office of special counsel Is nothing but a bunch of communist traitors designed to take down anyone that inflicts damage against the democrats! The mafia used to call them enforcers! Hitler called them the SS!

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