White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said she’ll be more careful with her words after a watchdog group said she violated the Hatch Act. “While the president has publicly expressed his support for McAuliffe, we’ll leave it to the press and the campaign to provide commentary on the race. I take ethics very seriously and will choose my words more carefully moving forward,” Psaki said in a statement to news outlets. The apparent violation came when Psaki spoke about Terry McAuliffe’s Virginia gubernatorial campaign. “We’re going to do everything we can to help former Gov. McAuliffe, and we believe in the agenda he’s representing,” Psaki told reporters in Washington this week. Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel over the line, alleging that it appeared to endorse McAuliffe’s candidacy and run counter to the Hatch Act. The act …
White House Press Secretary Says She’ll Be More Careful After Being Accused of Violating Hatch Act
October 16, 2021
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