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Federal Watchdog Agency: Tweets Can't Be Endorsements

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel issued a warning to the White House social-media director, Dan Scavino, for calling for a Michigan congressman’s defeat on Twitter.
Source: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

A top White House staffer broke a federal law that bars most government officials from engaging in political activities by calling for a member of Congress’s defeat on Twitter two months ago, a federal watchdog agency said Friday.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Dan Scavino, a White House communications official who oversees President Trump’s social-media accounts, violated the Hatch Act on April

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