There’s No Coming Back From the Norm-Breaking at the RNC

How many Hatch Act violations can one gathering include? The Trump White House seems determined to find out.

Ben Jacobs
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4 min readAug 26, 2020

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump after she addressed the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Only minutes before the Republican National Convention began on Tuesday, one speaker was removed from the program for sharing a grotesquely anti-Semitic thread laced with conspiracy…

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Ben Jacobs
GEN
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Ben Jacobs is a politics reporter based in Washington. Follow him on Twitter at @bencjacobs.