Smith is the Special Counsel guy that investigation Donald Trump…..
The US Office of Special Counsel which is supposed to be ‘independent ‘ is ‘ tasked with overseeing investigations into partisan influence and coercion’.
The Hatch Act says Federal employee’s can’t use politics in their duties , which of course IS what EVERY Trump appointed emplyee IS EXPECTED to do…
This will cost Smith lawyer fee’s….
But probably nothing more….
Trump HAS Publicly proclamed that he WILL be going after just about Political foe he he name….
In addition ?
Smith actions are covered by legal immunity for procutors actions…
Finally?
There is this…..
Trump will NOT be President forever….
The revenge thing (Obama, Hillary, Biden) could come back to haunt those let go with a new President or different majority Congress….
The Hatch Act prohibits most federal employees from using their official authority to influence elections or engage in overt political activity on the job. If the office concludes a federal employee has violated the law, it refers the case to the president. Discipline can range from a reprimand to a removal from federal service. Criminal penalties are rare.
Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department in the days before Trump’s inauguration this year, became the public face of the department’s efforts to hold Trump accountable for two sets of alleged crimes. Trump was accused of trying to block Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and, after leaving the White House upon completion of his first term, mishandling highly classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. Neither case went to trial….
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During Trump’s first term, he largely ignored the office even after it found his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway had violated the law by making partisan statements and recommended her removal.
More than a dozen Trump officials during his first term flouted the law against politicking, and the administration had a “willful disregard for the law,” the watchdog office later found….