Trump advisers illegally campaigned while in office, U.S. government report finds

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. government agency on Tuesday said 13 senior members of former President Donald Trump’s administration violated a law that limits political campaigning by government employees, faulting them for creating a “taxpayer-funded campaign apparatus” within the White House. In a 65-page report https://osc.gov/News/Pages/21-02-Hatch-Act-Report-RNC.aspx, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) identified instances in which Trump advisers, including Jared Kushner and Kellyanne Conway, used their official authority to promote Trump’s 2020 presidential election cam…

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