'Naked violation': Trump accused of brazen law-breaking with new GOP 'propaganda' attacks
Source: Raw Story
October 2, 2025 5:38PM ET
A high-ranking Democrat is pointing to GOP "propaganda" attacks, saying it could be a "naked violation of the Hatch Act" that he said has "outraged" his constituents.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced Thursday that the Trump administration is using government websites and civil servant emails "to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown."
"This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers," Raskin said in a statement. "I have been contacted by numerous constituents outraged by the fact that the Trump Administration is now sending out blatantly partisan messages, both on official Websites and through emails from federal agencies. These official agency messages blame Senate Democrats and the Radical Left for the government shutdown."
Democrats have insisted they're fighting to avoid healthcare costs rising ahead of open enrollment. Republicans and Democrats have pointed fingers at each other over who is to blame for the shutdown. Raskin said taxpayer-funded agencies including the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Small Business Administration have been turned into "MAGA propaganda organs."
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Buddyzbuddy
(1,599 posts)Gimpyknee
(765 posts)No, it is a naked violation of the Hatch Act.
rubbersole
(10,645 posts)..teenagers. Our way of life in America is on the verge of collapse. The author of Project 2025 is literally in charge of the country. The "government shutdown" is permanent. The billionaires have all the keys to the vault and nobody in their way to stop them. Social Security will be gone by Christmas.
FakeNoose
(38,843 posts)Social Security - and it's OUR MONEY don't forget - didn't cost the billionaires anything.
Most billionaires have no interest in social security because they've paid almost nothing into the fund. What they want to do is grab the excess that's still in the fund and make risky investments (like cryptocurrency for example) and blow our money on stupid stuff.
That's what we should be concerned about, and we need to stand strong together to prevent it from happening.
rubbersole
(10,645 posts)A month ago I guess I was thinking the political fallout from deteriorating donnie's growing unpopularity would have a "self preservation" effect on DC repubs. The display of the totally un-American leadership insanity in front of 800 Generals should have triggered the 25th Amendment that afternoon. Yet now we find the architect of Project 2025 calling the shots from the Oval Office. This is a raid on the wealth of the country. SS is a huge pot of cash these oligarchs have been salivating over since W. There doesn't seem to be anything in their way from stealing it. They're robbing the blue states now. I want to be wrong, FN. I want to be wrong.
William Seger
(11,842 posts)My MAGA congressman, Jeff Crank in Colorado district 5, sent out a mass text message claiming that the shutdown was because Democrats were insisting on free healthcare for illegal immigrants. I replied to inform him that I'm not that stupid, and I received a canned email repeating the same lie. Here's my response to that:
In my 76 years on this planet, I have never seen such an outrageously unethical scandal as an entire political party conspiring to promulgate the same BIG FAT LIE, hoping to avoid the political consequences of discontinuing programs that 71% of Americans approve of, by just LYING about it. That's what MAGA means to you and your ilk?
Furthermore, all this LYING is in service of the most prolific and most blatant pathological LIAR in American political history an obnoxiously self-obsessed racist, misogynist, and xenophobe, a convicted felon and unregistered sex offender who has lied and cheated his way through every aspect of his life, and now aspires to be a petty dictator in a "great again" fascist banana republic. And like all fascists movements in history, it's really all in service of America's oligarchy class that would be enriched by supporting a dictator.
You, sir, are a LIAR, and you should be ashamed of yourself! The disrespect you show for both the truth and for your constituent's ability to know the truth proves that you are totally unfit for office. I assure you, I will do everything I can to burn your MAGA party of LIARS to the ground in the next election.
LIAR!