White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates could not say whether or not the cocaine found at the White House on Sunday belong to Hunter or President Joe Biden, citing the Hatch Act
“Are you willing to say that that’s not the case? That it [cocaine] doesn’t belong to them?” a reporter asked Bates on Thursday aboard Air Force One.
“I don’t have a response to that because we have to be careful about the Hatch Act,” he claimed.
The reporter did not follow up with Bates on how the Hatch Act applied to the situation.
The Hatch Act’s main provision blocks executive branch employees “from engaging in partisan political activity while on duty, in a federal facility or using federal property,” according to the Justice Department.
“What I will say is I have noticed there does…
