Trump Won’t Fire Kellyanne Conway, Disagrees “Entirely” With Fed Chair Powell

President Trump said on Friday that he wouldn’t fire senior aide Kellyanne Conway after a watchdog found she violated a federal law prohibiting political speech in her official capacity.

“No, I’m not going to fire her. I think she’s a terrific person,” Trump told Fox News, adding “I got briefed on it yesterday and it looks to me like they’re trying to take away their right of free speech. And that’s just not fair.”

“She’s got to have the right of responding to questions.”

On Thursday, Special Counsel Henry Kerner (no relation to Mueller’s office) said in a letter that his office had never before found such repeated violations by former presidential aides, and recommended that Trump fire Conway, who erred by “disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media.”

Judge Overseeing Maduro Case in New York Dies Before Trial

ALERT: Dominion-Related Lawsuit Dismissed Against Patrick Byrne Over ‘The Deep Rig’ Film – No Legal Basis for Key Claim

Woman wearing burka escorted out of Florida county meeting after playing call to prayer recording

Manhattan 9/11 Memorial Desecrated by Anti-Second Amendment Radical

Dem AG’s ‘too many golf courses’ remark goes viral as critics tee off

Police Arrest 3 They Say Planned to Carry Out Mass Shooting at Georgia High School

Fifteen charged in DC drug bust for transnational meth and GBL trafficking ring

Dueling rallies thrust deep-red Lone Star town into the center of the political universe

‘Radical Left Lunatic’ judge Trump wanted impeached takes up Ilhan Omar warrant fight

Mary Peltola’s campaign, Dems backed covert scheme to field spoiler candidates in Alaska Senate race: report

FBI reports 67% jump in violent crime arrests under Trump compared to Biden’s final months

Mary Peltola and ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan face collusion accusations as DOJ investigates Alaska Senate campaign

Hochul reveals which election result would make her job ‘a lot easier’ — and it’s not her own

DOJ fires back at Dem AG over Election Day guidance telling officials when to call cops on federal agents

Breaking: Evidence Indicates Democrats Intentionally ‘Stacked’ the Ballot in Key Senate Race

“Ms. Conway’s violations, if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act’s restrictions. Her actions thus erode the principal foundation of our democratic system — the rule of law,” reads the letter.

“If Ms. Conway were any other federal employee, her multiple violations of the law would almost certainly result in her removal from her federal position,” Kerner added. “Never has (the office) had to issue multiple reports to the President concerning Hatch Act violations by the same individual.”

“given that Ms. Conway is a repeat offender and has shown disregard for the law, (the office) recommends that she be removed from federal service,” reads a separate statement from the Office of the Special Counsel alongside the report.

As CNN notes, White House counsel Pat Cipollone pushed back against the report, writing that the special counsel’s office did not give the White House or Conway time to respond to the report, and that her social media statements and media interviews did not constitute violations of the Hatch Act.