Karine Jean-Pierre creates enough problems for Joe Biden through her lousy job performance.
What Biden doesn’t need is Jean-Pierre enmeshed in scandal.
But now Karine Jean-Pierre got caught on camera engaging in this illegal activity.
Karine Jean-Pierre’s latest fiasco came when she used the phrase “MAGAnomics” in the White House press briefing room.
Is @presssec use of term “MAGAnomics” from the White House podium today a violation of the law?
OSC memo: “MAGA remains the campaign slogan of a current candidate for partisan political office, and therefore, its use constitutes political activity” https://t.co/lo7C3rm1KV pic.twitter.com/4Ys0k4pkdc
— Raj Shah (@RajShahDC) January 26, 2024
This statement could stand as Jean-Pierre’s second violation of the Hatch Act, a federal law in place to prevent government employees from engaging in partisan politics while on the taxpayer dime.
In June 2023, the Office of Special Counsel cited Jean-Pierre for using the phrase “mega MAGA Republicans” in a press gaggle.
At that time, the Office of Special Counsel issued a memo explaining that government employees cannot use the phrase “MAGA” since it is the slogan associated with a declared presidential candidate.
“In addition, employees may not use these campaign slogans when they are conducting government business or performing their duties as government officials, to include, giving official speeches, responding to media inquiries, announcing or defending policy initiatives, or otherwise communicating (via email, text, social media, press releases, etc.) on official matters,” the memo read.
“MAGA remains the campaign slogan of a current candidate for partisan political office, and therefore, its use constitutes political activity. This is true regardless of whether the slogan is used positively or negatively to describe—e.g., MAGA officials, MAGA Republicans, MAGA policies, or MAGA Members of Congress. Accordingly, federal employees should not use ‘MAGA’ or ‘Make America Great Again’ while on duty, in the workplace, or when acting in their official capacity, including communicating through social media, email, or on government websites,” the memo continued.
Jean-Pierre either didn’t read the memo or didn’t care because of the two-tiered system of justice in America where Democrats are largely protected by the law and Republicans are targeted by the law.
Joe Biden’s embrace of the phrase “Bidenomics” turned out to be one of the great political blunders as that provided a permission structure for voters to associate Joe Biden with the skyrocketing inflation that devoured their paychecks.
Multiple polls show voters believe Donald Trump was a more successful president whose policies improved their lives.
Democrats want voters to associate the phrase “MAGA” with the Big Lie that January 6 was a white supremacist insurrection.
Jean-Pierre deployed “MAGAnomics” as a way to try and poison voters’ memories of the Trump economy by linking it to the January 6 falsehoods spread by Democrats and the media.
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