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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'It's entirely inappropriate': Trump shot a political video on Air Force One
Seated behind a desk on Air Force One, the presidential seal over his left shoulder, President Trump shot a short video Thursday, blasting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasios entry into the 2020 race.
If you like high taxes and if you like crime, you can vote for him but most people arent into that, the president said to the camera.
Trumps use of taxpayer-funded transportation to post a political message raises some legal and ethics questions. But possibly the greatest crime, some experts say, is the breakdown of norms.
Its entirely inappropriate, and it is against historical norms for a president to be campaigning from Air Force One, said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Most presidents have had enough respect for the office to try to separate campaigning from formal duties. Donald Trump is not such a president.
The president and the vice president are exempt from the Hatch Act, the law forbidding executive branch officials from participating in certain political activities. They are, however, bound by campaign finance rules, but those are rarely enforced.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/its-entirely-inappropriate-trump-shot-a-political-video-on-air-force-one/ar-AABy6I5?li=BBnbcA1
Ethics? Trump don't need no stinking ethics.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,032 posts)Runningdawg
(4,533 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)This is what you get.
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)SamKnause
(13,114 posts)He has done and said things that were entirely inappropriate since he drew his first breath.
I can't imagine how long the list is of laws he has broken.
NYC let him break the laws decade after decade.
Apparently the IRS and the insurance companies weren't very interested in him either.
He would not be in the oval office if he had been held accountable for his criminal and corrupt behavior.
He has been illegally campaigning since his first day in office.
I haven't seen anyone trying to stop him.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)the Constitution is just a few mild suggestions.
lindysalsagal
(20,805 posts)UTUSN
(70,810 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and who?
Maru Kitteh
(28,350 posts)I wasn't aware POTUS & VP were exempt from the Hatch act.