{"id":44183,"date":"2020-08-29T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44183"},"modified":"2020-08-29T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:00:18","slug":"wh-used-as-political-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44183","title":{"rendered":"WH used as political prop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump pulled it off.<\/p>\n

He managed to violate federal law, flout political custom and turn the White House — along with the Marines on duty at the presidential residence — into political props.<\/p>\n

He accepted his party’s nomination to a second term as president. He had that crowd gathered on the lawn. They were generally mask free and they ignored social distancing recommendations. They cheered Trump’s applause lines.<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s a given that Trump would lie through his teeth. Not much to say about that at this moment … likely later.<\/p>\n

The use of the White House, the Marines, one of his daughters who serves as a government official is a blatant violation of the Hatch Act, the law that bans federal employees from engaging in political activities.<\/p>\n

But … will it matter? Will there be an outrage by voters who have seen and heard enough from Trump? Probably not.<\/p>\n

This misuse of the White House is galling at every level imaginable. The flags, the Trump-Pence campaign signs in front of our house. All of this while we are fighting a still-losing battle against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

We aren’t supposed to condone this kind of abuse. I certainly don’t. Donald Trump, though, doesn’t give a damn about any of this. He demonstrates his contempt for the law, for tradition and for time-honored political custom damn near daily.<\/p>\n

He did so again with that hideous political spectacle at the White House. As a part-owner of that building, I object in the most strenuous terms possible!<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump pulled it off. He managed to violate federal law, flout political custom and turn the White House — along with the Marines on duty at the presidential residence — into political props. He accepted his party’s nomination to a second term as president. He had that crowd gathered on the lawn. They were … Continue reading WH used as political prop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7424,3967,5246],"class_list":["post-44183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hatch-act","tag-rnc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44185,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions\/44185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}