The former White House Ethics Chief just levied a huge judgment on Our Lady of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway in a Twitter screed of epic proportions. Walter Shaub, who resigned from the post in July to become a legal activist, called for Kellyanne to be fired for her egregious violation of the Hatch Act by attacking Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones and shilling for his pedophiliac opponent Roy Moore on CNN.
Unbelievable. Spending almost a quarter hour defending Roy Moore and attacking Doug Jones is still a Hatch Act violation even if you play the word game of couching it as POTUS’s view, @KellyannePolls, and mocking those who try to hold you accountable /1 https://t.co/tAre91R9JS
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
But he doesn’t stop at Kellyanne. Shaub takes aim at the Trump appointees whose job it would be to investigate the violation as well.
only shows the depths of your depraved disdain for the rule of law. If the Hatch Act Unit of the @US_OSC doesn’t find you’ve violated the law twice in the past month for this, we’ll know for sure that the recent Trump appointee is a purring lap cat installed by a corrupt /2
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
He goes on to effectively indict the entire administration in an attempt to set all remaining vestiges of ethics on fire.
Presidential administration to dismantled the last vestiges of ethics in the executive branch. Your mockery of Hatch Act enforcement today now proves that a written reprimand won’t be enough to deter future misconduct. It’s clear nothing short of your removal will stop the /3
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
Shaub doesn’t waste the opportunity to take a shot at Ivanka, either.
violations. On the up side, if that happens, you’ll be able tell everyone to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” all you like as a private citizen because the Standards of Conduct only apply to executive branch employees. But maybe you have some inside knowledge you’d care to share as to /4
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
That’s a reference to Kellyanne’s shameless plug for “Ivanka’s Stuff” on CNN in February.
Shaub takes down Trump Appointee, Special Counsel Henry Kerner, calling him a “loyal tabby.” Looks like he had hope for the guy, but is disappointed in his failure to act.
whether Special Counsel Henry Kerner is a loyal tabby who has given assurances that emboldened you to the commit this repeat offense today. I’ve been secretly hoping he’d rise to the challenge and do the right thing, but is there something I don’t know? /5 https://t.co/V4MUTylLe0
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
Then Shaub just takes aim at the entire Trump Ethics Program – which, yes, sounds like an oxymoron – calling it “garbage.”
Folks, this is the same Kellyanne Conway who reportedly said that having to comply with government ethics rules about disclosure is demoralizing. She is a product of the garbage ethics program (if you can call it an ethics program) run by /6 https://t.co/sZuuD5G6WZ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
He calls out Steven Passantino and Jim Schultz by name, the latter of which recently resigned his post.
professional Ethics Preventers Stefan Passantino and his former assistant Jim Schultz. Both @RWPUSA and @NormEisen in the Bush and Obama White Houses would’ve fired these two cartoon villains after the first month—and, of course, Schultz only made it 10 months even in /7
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 6, 2017
So if there was any question about the Trump Administration’s ethics – which at this point seems well beyond rhetorical – Walter Shaub seems to have your answer. The administration has none, and no one to punish them for it.
