Twitter White House aide Kellyanne Conway sent this and other political tweets while flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One last week, possibly in violation of the Hatch Act. As Air Force One flew high over the North Atlantic Ocean last week, White House aide Kellyanne Conway typed out tweets attacking Joe Biden and other Democratic presidential candidates — possibly generating Hatch Act violations beyond those a federal ethics office on Thursday recommended she be fired for. Nor did outgoing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other members of her press office. Conway has made it a practice of disparaging Democrats in news interviews conducted on White House grounds and mocking reporters who ask her about it. In all, over a period of 24 minutes of the seven-hour, $2 million flight back to Washington, Conway wrote four tweets attacking Democratic presidential candidates, as well as one agreeing with Trump’s reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale in his praise for his boss.

Source: Huffington Post June 13, 2019 22:40 UTC