Former Sec. of State Mike Pompeo changed longstanding State Dept. policy and violated the Hatch Act with his speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, a government watchdog has concluded.
at the 2020 Republican National Convention, a government watchdog concluded in a report released Tuesday.found that Pompeo was one of at least 13 high-level Trump administration officials who violated the 1939 law designed to prevent the mixing of governmental authority with political campaigns.from Jerusalem, where he was on official State Department business. His office maintained that he was speaking in his personal capacity, not as the country's top diplomat.
State Department policy had prohibited political employees from speaking at political party conventions, but Pompeo changed the rule four days before the speech and stipulated that the change applied only to him. State Department personnel also advised Pompeo about"how to comply with the Hatch Act when delivering the speech," the report said."As he did with the policy change, Secretary Pompeo disregarded that advice" and spent the bulk of his address talking about official State Department matters, which he should have stayed away from, it said.
The report cited 11 other Trump officials, including White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and senior adviser Jared Kushner, for actions like improperly promoting Trump's re-election and bashing his opponent, Joe Biden, in numerous media interviews.
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