John,
Last month, after President Trump’s call to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to “find” votes and overturn the results of the presidential election, we filed a criminal complaint with the Fulton County District Attorney, asking her to open a criminal investigation.
Yesterday, the Fulton County DA announced that she is doing exactly that. No one is above the law—while Trump may have been able to avoid criminal charges while he was president, he now has to face the consequences of his behavior. For more, read and share our statement on Facebook and Twitter.
That’s not the only CREW complaint that has gotten results recently. When Lynne Patton, a Trump administration appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared in a promotional video with New York City Housing Authority residents that aired during the RNC last summer, we filed a Hatch Act complaint.
But it was even worse than we thought: we recently obtained documents that show that Patton lied to the public housing residents who appeared in the video, telling them that it was for a nonpartisan project. The Office of Special Counsel, which has found Patton guilty of Hatch Act violations for using her official position for partisan purposes on two previous occasions, referred Patton to the Merit Systems Protection Board for disciplinary action based on this latest violation. For more, read our release.
Donald Trump acted like he was above the law every day, so it’s no surprise that other members of his administration followed suit. The Trump administration may be over, but the fight for accountability is far from done.
Thank you,
Noah Bookbinder
President, CREW
