The agriculture secretary is the latest of 14 political appointees to be cited by the government watchdog for violating the Hatch Act
On 24 August, Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, traveled to the battleground state of North Carolina for an official departmental event for food producers hurt by the pandemic. But Perdue’s speech to attendees also featured a campaign pep talk for Trump, who was there too.
At one point Perdue led a chant of “four more years” and called Trump a champion of “forgotten people”.
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