Donald Trump said repeatedly during his drive that he want to gut the Department of Education . What did the Department of Education think about that ? An internal memo released to Gizmodo today show that the Union bureau cautioned its employees not to say anything controversial about the election — especially about Donald Trump .
Americans became sagaciously aware of The Hatch Act in the past calendar month after FBI Director James Comey made a surprise annunciation just 11 day out from Election Day . His letter to Congress explain that the FBI was investigating electronic mail set up on Anthony Weiner ’s data processor , and it rankled Democrats , especially after it was discovered that they did n’t include anything remotely shocking . Supporters of Hillary Clinton show to a long hold tradition that forbid Union employees from trying to work elections . The Hatch Act of 1939 was the formal law that banned that sort of interference .
An emailed memo , first requested through a Freedom of Information Act request in May , was finally release today . The memorandum specifically notes that media relations employees at the Department of Education had received “ refresher ” education on The Hatch Act .
The memoranda also includes talking point for Department of Education employees who might be asked by members of the medium about the election . The talking point admit two header : “ Which popular nominee do you sustain ” and “ What do you think of Donald Trump ? ”
The first answer to both question was supposed to be “ I ’m not here to discuss the candidates or the election … ” The talking points then explain that “ you should pivot from drive to precedency , ” though it does specialize that employees can “ set the record directly factually if one of the candidates says something inaccurate . ”
The entire memoranda appears below .
Donald Trump has tell again and again that he dislike the Department of Education and wants to cut down funding for the federal agency .
“ We want to bring education local so we ’re plump to be cutting the Department of Education expectant conference because we ’re running our instruction from Washington DC , which is ridiculous , instead of run away it out of Miami or run it out of the dissimilar place that we have so many multitude , ” Trump saidback in August .
When this fresh relinquish memo was originally sent out in May of 2016 , Donald Trump was running rough even with Clinton in the pate and FiveThirtyEight dismissed the idea of secret Trump votersas gimcrackery :
Indeed , there ’s little reason to think that we ’re in for a surprisal in the universal election because of Trump outstrip his polling on Election Day . As Cohn pointed out , the dispute in Hillary Clinton ’s margin over Trump between live - audience and on-line polls is passably small right now at 2.5 percentage points , and that may have more to do with how the buck - race question is ask than the survey style . This does n’t mean that Trump wo n’t greatly outperform his public opinion poll or that people wo n’t be afraid to voice their support for him . But when you take care at the evidence from the main season and the ecumenical election survey results so far , I would play on the pate get Trump right again .
FiveThirtyEight hedges in there , of row , because the website is filled with pundits dressed up as “ just the fact , ma’am ” statisticians . But I guess at the conclusion of the day the trick ’s on us , the elector . And perhaps on the Department of Education , which will no doubt face drastic snub under a regime controlled by Donald Trump and Republicans in both the House and the Senate .
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