New Castle County GOP chairman resigns, blasts party and U.S. “The very notion that anyone would imply such a thing for political gain or any other reason is appalling.” “Let me state, unequivocally, that I would never allow my children or myself to be abused,” she told The News Journal just weeks before the 1982 election. He denied the accusation as did Diane Carper, who died in 2013. “Seems you have ither serious issues to work out.”Ĭarper was never charged criminally in the incident, which first came to light in a New York Post article published in 1982 during his first run for the state’s lone U.S. “Maybe you shouldn’t be so worried about someone mistakenly putting #maga in a tweet,” Donald Trump Jr. The OSC does not have the authority to issue punishments for Hatch Act violations – a power reserved solely by the president. In the most recent case, Melania Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham in July tweeted a photo from the president’s campaign rally in Tampa, Florida, using the #MAGA, an acronym for his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again. House candidate Scott Walker calls opponent 'Aunt Tom' The 1939 law prohibits employees in the executive branch from engaging in some forms of political activity.Ĭarper, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has repeatedly requested the OSC investigate members of the Trump administration for violating the rule. raised the issue this week in direct response to a Carper tweet in which the Delaware Democrat announced the Office of Special Counsel had warned Melania Trump's spokeswoman that one of her tweets was found to be in violation of the Hatch Act. "He certainly isn’t going to let anyone, especially a man who routinely traffics in conspiracy theories and mocks victims of sexual assault, distract him from pursuing the truth and doing his job.”
“Senator Carper has always been - and will continue to be - undeterred in his efforts to make sure our government officials are following the law and are held accountable to the Americans they are supposed to serve," said Carper spokeswoman Katie Wilson. was referring to an incident in the early 1980s in which Carper slapped his now late-wife Diane. “You admitted to hitting your wife so hard it gave her a black eye,” Donald Trump Jr. Tom Carper’s decades-old spousal abuse controversy was resurrected Thursday by President Donald Trump’s oldest son. tweet revives domestic violence accusation against Sen.
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