{"id":7167,"date":"2021-10-16T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byberry.com\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:42:49","slug":"psaki-accused-violating-ethics-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/psaki-accused-violating-ethics-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki accused of ethics law, vows to choose &#8216;words more carefully&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki is accused of violating the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits partisan politicking by executive branch employees.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki was accused by a government watchdog called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). They claimed that Psaki violated the ethics law when she suggested that President Joe Biden was putting his support behind a Democrat running for governor, Terry McAullife, who&#8217;s in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki gave a statement, saying &#8220;I have to be a little careful about how much political analysis I do from here&#8221; &#8211; but she still suggested that Biden wants McAuliffe to be part of Virginia&#8217;s future. Psaki further stated &#8220;We\u2019re going to do everything we can to help&#8221; as stated on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/15\/biden-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-have-violated-hatch-act-watchdog-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;What Might Happen If The Shoe Was On The Other Foot?&#039;: Psaki Grilled Over Executive Privilege Move\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z86C2rTErhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki is accused of violating the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits partisan politicking by executive branch employees. Psaki was accused by a government watchdog called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). They claimed that Psaki violated the ethics law when she suggested that President Joe Biden was &#8230; <a title=\"Psaki accused of ethics law, vows to choose &#8216;words more carefully&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/psaki-accused-violating-ethics-law\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Psaki accused of ethics law, vows to choose &#8216;words more carefully&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}