My understanding is that Donald Trump has a personal exemption as President. But he can’t extend it to other people. So he can’t let a member of his campaign staff do campaign activities from the White House (or any other government office). They’re not even allowed to make phone calls from inside a government vehicle. There’s supposed to be a complete separation between what politicians do as part of their job and what they do as part of their election campaigns.
As far as I can tell, Lara Trump has no government position. She is employed by the Trump re-election campaign.
Bricker’s right. It’s not the Hatch Act which prohibits the use of government offices for campaigning activities. It’s an older law that predates the Hatch Act:
This is the law that got Al Gore in trouble. Unlike the Hatch Act, which makes an exemption for the President and Vice President, this law prohibits anyone from conducting campaign business inside a Federal government building.
:rolleyes: This is one of the silliest objections ever. That’s like saying that somebody is hypocritical for objecting to white supremacist ideology even though they don’t mind the Presidential residence being called the “White House”.
The same adjective can have different connotations and implications in different contexts, and using the same adjective in different contexts in the same statement doesn’t necessarily make the statement self-contradictory.
In the first place, I don’t know of anyone claiming that the Obama Administration is a flawless exemplar of unfailingly irreproachable political conduct. In the second place, let’s see your cite for this assertion so we can judge what it really amounts to; after all, David Axelrod was at different times an official (oh noes! that word again!) White House senior political adviser and a senior campaign adviser during the Obama Administration. You may perhaps have got a bit confused about what meetings were being held where when.