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A report from the Office of the Special Council described Kellyanne Conway's offenses as "egregious, notorious and ongoing".
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President Kellyanne Conway's advisor has violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits political speech in its official capacity, has repeatedly announced a year ago last year, a federal gendarme.

The Office of the Special Council recommended that Conway be removed from office. Special Advocate Henry Kerner on Thursday issued a letter stating that Conway's disregard for "Hatch Act restrictions on employees of the executive branch is unacceptable".

The White House accused the agency of erroneous reasoning and said that its actions violated Conway's right to freedom of expression.

The special advisor has repeatedly exposed until 2017, including messages from her @KellyannePolls Twitter account and retransmitted interviews, in which Conway spoke about the mid-term elections of 2018 and the Democratic candidates of 2020. His comments range from the criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden to the call of voters to go to the polls in the 2018 elections. She has also repeatedly predicted that the president would be re-elected.

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Here are all the examples – places and comments – the special attorney stated that Conway had broken the Hatch law:

Fox News: "What did you accomplish exactly?"

Conway, as Senior Assistant, was asked to respond to the withdrawal of the Trump administration from a nuclear pact with Russia during an interview with Fox News on Feb. 1.

During the interview, Conway was also asked to report the Trump administration's official reaction to Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., who was joining the 2020 race as as a democrat. Conway, who is from New Jersey, asked if Booker was qualified and blamed him for appearing against a record number of women who asked for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

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"Welcome, the water seems hot.Welcome to diving with I do not know, 10, 15, 30 other Democrat candidates.I would ask him some questions today while he is leaking from there. a native of New Jersey., what's wrong with the candidates who are already there?

"What is your objection to Kamala Harris running, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, those others who have already announced" Tulsi Gabbard, perhaps, "said Conway. "If he was a Republican running against them, they would immediately call him a sexist for running against these women in the democratic realm."

"But I would also ask him exactly what you did to become the commander-in-chief and the president of the United States," she said.

Fox News: "Nothing is worth zero anyway"

In a separate interview on Fox News on Feb. 11, Conway gave an interview in which she discussed negotiations between the White House and Congress on border funding to end the government's closure.

During the interview, Fox News host Steve Doocy named eight Democratic candidates who announced their candidacy and said the list could continue to grow.

"Keep going," she replied. "Do not forget that everything that is equal to zero is always equal to zero.If you do not have good ideas that matter to the country, if you can not communicate with people like now, the President Donald Trump did it in 2015 and 2016 ".

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Conway also commented specifically on some of the presidential candidates, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. And Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

"Amy Klobuchar seems to be a very kind person unless you are part of her staff," Conway said. "But you can change the A to O and get" O my "instead of Amy."

"Elizabeth Warren has spent decades, people, decades, appropriating the heritage and ethnicity of someone … and she lied about it," Conway said.

Conway also blamed Gillibrand for "waiting for the cameras to turn" to eat cooked chicken for the first time.

"I mean it's just silly stuff," Conway said.

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Fox News: "Just Presidential Wood Chips"

Conway joined Fox News '"The Ingraham Angle" on March 13 to give the White House an answer to critics of lawmakers, including Republicans, on Trump' s national emergency declaration in order to get a funding for its border wall.

But, once again, Conway criticized the candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential election.

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Without help, the White House's principal assistant criticized Warren, claiming that she "had tried to appropriate the ethnicity of someone else." .

"I do not see presidential timber yet, just presidential wood chips," Conway said.

Fox News: "Disorder in the Democratic Party"

In an interview on March 18 at Fox News "Fox and Friends," Conway gave an answer to the White House following a large-scale shootings in a mosque in New Zealand, as well. than border security.

Conway was also asked about Axelrod's criticism of Trump's 2020 campaign. She defended the president's re-election strategy and then asked, "Which Democrat, in fact, will break Trump's 306 electoral votes."

"Now we have 13, we have a dozen bakers running in. Biden may go in because I guess none of them think the other can beat Donald Trump," she continued. "There is no strategy I see."

She added, "You have Beto O 'Rourke and Cory Booker promising you to nominate a woman as vice president." Do not they think women running are good enough to be presidents?

"So there's a mess in the Democratic Party starting with the bridge here in Virginia," she said.

Easter egg roll: "If your message is zero, it's a big zero"

On April 22, during the Easter Egg Ceremony at the White House, Conway gave Fox News an interview with Fox and Friends to comment on a mass shooting in Sri Lanka, First Lady Melania Trump's anti-bullying campaign The report of the special advocate Robert Mueller on the interference of Russia in the 2016 election.

However, Conway, spontaneously, brought up the 2020 candidates by talking about Mueller's investigation. She noted that Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., Had jumped into the race.

"Whether it's one, nineteen or fifty, nothing at all equals zero, simple multiplication," she said. "So fifty Democrats can run in. Twenty of them, nineteen are running now.But if your message is zero, it's a big zero."

Fox News: Bernie Sanders' ideas are terrible

In another interview with Fox News on April 24, this one gave an answer to the White House about Trump's attempts to resist subpoenas from House Democrats to government officials. administration, such as Attorney General Bill Barr. In addition, Conway spoke of the pressure being exerted by some Democrats in the House to remove the President and White House action to end the opioid crisis.

Conway was also asked if Biden was waiting to officially announce his candidacy for the presidency. When asked what the president thought about a potential fight against Biden, Mr. Conway replied, "Bring him, bring him all."

"I think Biden's timing is good for him, because the Democrats seem really desperate to find an alternative to Bernie Sanders, who is the favorite nowadays in polls and in the field," he said. she declared.

"Bernie Sanders has a lot in common with Donald Trump, and he does not care what his party thinks of his candidacy at this stage of the primaries.

"The only difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump is that Bernie Sanders' ideas are terrible for America and that Donald Trump is a much better candidate," she said.

CNN: "No vision for the future"

In an interview on CNN's "Smerconish" on April 27, Conway discussed Trump's earlier comments on the 2017 Charlottesville protests, which included a white nationalist. March. The president of the time said that there were "good people" on both sides.

She then spoke about Biden, who criticized Trump's response to the protests in Charlottesville at the announcement of his presidential campaign.

"He does not want to be held responsible for his criminal record, or his absence," she said about Biden. "I found his unfortunate announcement video, certainly a missed opportunity.But also very dark and scary.It has no vision for the future."

CNN: "There is no vision"

Just a day later, Conway was back on CNN to talk about what the administration was doing to combat the rising rate of antisemitic crime in the United States. Later, she again defended Trump's comments on Charlottesville.

She again spoke to Biden, claiming that the former vice president "had mentioned it because he had no vision and that he did not want to be held responsible. of the Obama-Biden legacy ".

CNN host Jake Tapper interrupted Conway, saying he wanted to go back to his question about the "good people" Trump was talking about at the Charlottesville fashion shows.

Conway, once again, raised Biden.

"For Joe Biden, who has been in public life, who was elected at 29, to go out and have no vision, no responsibility for the Obama-Biden record, did not even mention the President Obama, but mentions Charlottesville to try to use this for political purposes, "Conway said.

Tapper tried again to divert Biden's conversation. However, Conway kept coming back to the 2020 Democratic candidate.

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According to Kerner's report, Conway was addressing reporters outside the White House for about 30 minutes. A reporter asked Conway, "You mentioned Joe Biden several times without being invited in. Do you see, guys?"

"How did it go without help? It's the favorite!" Conway responded.

She went on to describe the Democratic electorate as "sexist" and "racist" because Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Were first.

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She said that "two old, heterosexual white politicians" have conducted the polls because the electorate has "a problem with the rest of the world".

Kerner's report also quotes another crowd at the White House on May 1, where Conway spoke to Biden without comment.

"So thank you for the free publicity on everything Joe Biden has not done for eight years that he's vice president," she told reporters.

Twitter: "The stakes are high"

The special advisor also highlighted several of Conway's tweets for supporting Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.

"You missed me, #Michigan!" she wrote. "The stakes are high, the choice is clear."

Just three days before the election, Conway sent another tweet by saying to vote for the GOP.

Since February, Conway has also tweeted several times about Democratic presidential candidates.

She questioned Booker's decision to run for president in a tweet on February 1st.

A few days later, Conway also tweeted about the re-election of the president, saying "I'm MyHim" – a dissident to his former rival of 2016, Hillary Clinton. The slogan of Clinton's campaign was "I'm with her".

Conway has also repeatedly criticized Warren in tweets posted on February 11 and March 13. In a tweet of March 31, Conway also criticized Biden. On the same day, she also retweeted a video from Fox News Sunday, quoting Conway: "If someone just taps into" Creepy Uncle Joe Videos ", you create a treasure."

She also responded to a tweet on May 7 from Donald Trump Jr., who criticized Obama's economy over his father.

"You mean the Obama-Biden economy," wrote Conway.

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