Posted on 07/16/2019 12:02:33 PM PDT by tcrlaf
After Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway failed to appear to testify on her Hatch Act violations before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday, Democrats, watchdog and advocacy groups called for her to be fired and even put in prison.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, in a letter to the committee's chairman Elijah Cummings, wrote, "Ms. Conway cannot be compelled to testify before Congress with respect to matters related to her service as a senior adviser to the president" and that "the President has directed Ms. Conway not to appear at the Committee's scheduled hearing on Monday, July 15, 2019."
Accordingly, Conway did not show up to testify on the Office of Special Counsel's conclusion in June that she broke the federal law prohibiting executive branch employees from influencing the outcome of an election, and recommending that Trump remove her from serving in government.
In a statement Monday afternoon, Sean Eldridge, president of the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, said that Conway is "unfit to serve the American people in any capacity" and that "as the U.S. Office of Special Counsel recommended, she should immediately be fired."
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Congress has zero standing to demand anything from executive branch advisors. They serve The President exclusively.
What did corpulent George Conway have to say about it?
I’m going to be nice...
Jessica Kwong is mentally impaired. Probably should apply for SS disability.
Is she a citizen? Or does it matter anymore?
5.56mm
Wait, someone remind me, did NewsTrash opt write an article related to putting H.Clinton in prison for her illegal servers, etc. while she was SoS? /s
Was surprised Newsweek is still in business.
Kellyanne Conway is a POLITICAL APPOINTEE employee of the White House, hired directly by the President, as such the Hatch Act does not apply, and as such, she is allowed to make political comments as an adviser to the POLTICAL President, a POLITICAL position. The facts seem to not matter to these Democrats. She is NOT a civil servant, subject to such limitations.
Jessica Kwong should get her teeth in a snack Baggie, asnd get sent back where she came from.
Lock ‘er up! NOT!
Says Newsweek, the authority. Of nothing, and no one.
What is it with these Kwong and Jeong people?
Kinda cute, kinda stupid. Definitely Stalinist.
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