Well folks, it is official as of this week.
It looks like both the Republican and the
Democrat conventions are effectively
Canceled. There is
Going to be any kind of in person events at
either convention. It's all going to be remote,
which is exactly what needs to happen. To
be honest, I'm a little shocked that the Democrats
just announced this like a day and a half
ago. And the Republicans announced that a
week ago, I would have hoped that the Democrats
would have had enough sense to get ahead of
the Republicans on the issue. But instead
they wanted to wait and see, as Democrats
do like, Oh, we got to see what the other
side does before we make a move because we're
spineless idiots. Uh, but anyway, the Democrats
may be spineless, but the Republicans, according
to Republicans might actually be breaking
the law with what their plan is for their
convention. It was announced on Wednesday
and Donald Trump in the white house reconfirmed
it, uh, later in the day that Trump is going
to be giving his Republican national convention.
Renomination acceptance speech from the South
lawn of the white house, federal property,
government, property tax payer, paid for property.
And he's going to be giving his political
speech at a political convention, supporting
a political party on that government owned
property. And according to Republican Senator
John foun, who mentioned this to reporters
yesterday, uh, in fact, I just, I really want
to quote him. And this is what he said, quote
to reporters, is that even legal? That is
what John foun long time Republican Senator
had to say about Trump's
Decision to give his
Acceptance speech from the lawn of the white
house, a publicly funded Mon federal federal
property. Is that even legal? And that's a
great question, John phone, because it brings
up something, the Trump administration loves
to crap all over, which is the hatch act.
We have seen damn near every major figure
within the Trump white house violate the hatch
act, including Kellyanne Conway, who was violated
it so much that the white house ethics office
actually recommended her firing. Trump, of
course didn't do it, but they said, listen,
she's a repeat offender. She keeps literally
breaking the law. Uh, you need to fire her.
They didn't do it. Uh, but unfortunately in
this particular instance, Donald Trump is
not subject to the hatch act. Uh, neither
is the vice president because according to
the backwards ass way that this country wrote
its laws, the president doesn't have to comply
with a lot of things, which includes the hatchback.
The president can do whatever the heck he
wants with regards to that. He can use official
taxpayer funded items and property to promote
a political party, a political candidate,
a political ideology doesn't matter, even
though we, the taxpayers from both parties
paid for it, the president and or vice president
can use that to promote their own personal
policy agenda. But they're the only ones that
have that exemption. If a single white house
staffer, a single person who salary comes
from taxpayers helps out with this event in
any way, while they're on the clock. If they
are being paid at the moment, if they help
out, if they bring the present a glass of
water while he is standing outside to give
this speech, if they print out the speech,
if they bring them a pen or pencil, so he
can Mark it up before he goes on, that would
in fact be an illegal violation of the hatch
act of the United States.
This is not a smart decision on the Republican's
behalf, right? You need some kind of convention
mounts, and it's already going to be difficult
to get that for either party because you're
not having an in person convention, which
again is the smart decision. Do not have an
imperson convention during a pandemic. You're
all idiots for waiting this long to cancel
it by the way. And I'm going to repeat that
probably several times throughout this campaign,
but nevertheless, the Republicans needed to
make sure that at the very least, all they
did was not break the law during the Canva
there during their convention. Right? I mean,
that seems like a pretty low bar to hit to.
Can we pull this off without violating any
federal laws? And unfortunately for them,
the answer to that question is no with Donald
Trump as your nominee, it's never a safe bet
to assume that you can do something without
breaking a law.
