Posted on 02/07/2025 3:04:34 AM PST by Libloather
President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move the Democratic official claims is illegal.
Weintraub, who has served as an FEC commissioner since 2002, shared the termination letter she received from the president on X and signaled that she won’t be leaving her post quietly.
“Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [FEC],” Weintraub wrote on the social media platform. “There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it.”
“I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way,” she added. “That’s not changing anytime soon.”
The succinct letter that Weintraub included in her post was dated Jan. 31 and included the 78-year-old president’s distinctive signature.
“You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately,” Trump wrote. “Thank you for your service on the commission.”
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The FEC, which has six commissioners, is an independent regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws and overseeing the nation’s federal elections.
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“...she won’t be leaving her post quietly.”
Cool, then walk her out cuffed and in leg irons after being arrested for trespassing.
PRAY!!
“You’re fired!”
“tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws and overseeing the nation’s federal elections.”
She failed. Bigly.
“ FEC, which has six commissioners, is an independent regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws and overseeing the nation’s federal election’s”
The Constitution does not have provisions for “independent” commissions. You are either part of the Executive Branch and thus under the President, or your office is unconstitutional.
What a joke
Sounds like she changed her name to WHINEtraub…
Take a hike, lady.
Better learn to code….
Removed by Trump, Chair Ellen Weintraub, has served as an FEC commissioner
since 2002, defiantly says she won’t be leaving her tax-paid post quietly.
The full compensation in 2023 is $183,500......plus perks, pensions and privileges.
Of course not. She a Democrat female and they are all banshees.
People usually scream when pushed down the stairs...looking forward to hearing her.
The gist of it is, she’s blowing a dog whistle to neo-Marxists like herself.
She, like all leftists, think this is what their jobs are...
Elon’s boys need to change her password, and then security needs to escort her out of the building and change the locks.
Think taxpayers should ask for the pay back which she was paid after her term expired? That’s a good starting point to negotiate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws” and she failed...bigly! and I’m rejoicing in that failure...bigly! in the future the progressive leftists will deem her “complicit “ in helping one President Donald J Trump lose in 2020, thereby setting the stage for one President Donald J Trump, 2.0 being elected a second time to MAGA! yep...democrats of the future will determine that TRUMP losing in 2020 is anybody and everybody else’s fault and that loss is directly responsible for TRUMP 2.0 and their subsequent loss of illicit funding via ngo’s. “The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever” L.Star
I’m starting to think Homeland Security might be a pretty cool job right about now. I think they are the ones tasked with kicking people like her out, preventing democrats in congress from trespassing, all that cool stuff.
Where do I apply?
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