{"id":45668,"date":"2017-10-04T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45668"},"modified":"2017-10-04T06:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:54:33","slug":"un-ambassador-nikki-haley-warned-trump-retweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/un-ambassador-nikki-haley-warned-trump-retweet.html","title":{"rendered":"UN ambassador Nikki Haley warned over Trump retweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN ambassador Nikki Haley warned over Trump retweet<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

UN ambassador Nikki Haley warned over Trump retweet:- US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley was warned on Tuesday that her retweet of a political message posted by President Donald Trump in June endorsing then-South Carolina congressional candidate Ralph Norman was a violation of the Hatch Act, according a letter posted by a Washington watchdog group.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Office of Special Counsel issued Haley a warning letter noting that any future engagement in prohibited political activity will be considered ‘a willful and knowing violation of the law, which could result in further action,'” according to a press release from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), which filed the original complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hatch Act prohibits employees in the executive branch, except the President, vice president and some other high-level officials, from engaging in political activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the OSC told CNN that they do not comment on the status of such investigations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haley did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

CREW’s initial complaint stemmed from Haley’s retweet of a post by Trump that said: “Ralph Norman, who is running for Congress in SC’s 5th District, will be a fantastic help to me in cutting taxes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is already the third time this year that a senior Trump official has been reprimanded for misusing their official position following a CREW complaint,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a written statement. “Ambassador Haley should have known better.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior White House aide Dan Scavino was reprimanded in April by the OSC for violating the Hatch Act in a tweet calling for the defeat of GOP Rep. Justin Amash in a primary, according to a letter posted by CREW.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scavino’s tweet came on the heels of Trump’s taking to Twitter in April to call out the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which Amash is a member of, for not supporting his plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.<\/span><\/p>\n

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway was also rebuked in February for violating federal ethics regulations by using her official position to promote Ivanka Trump products, according to the group.<\/span><\/p>\n

“One is unfortunate, two is a coincidence, but three in less than a year is a pattern,” Bookbinder said in a statement on Tuesday. “This all stems from the President’s permissive attitude toward ethics; the tone is set at the top.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/03\/politics\/nikki-haley-hatch-act-violation\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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