August 17 (UPI) – The Republican National Committee requested a national park service permit for President Donald Trump’s most sensible acceptance speech with a fireworks demonstration at the Washington Monument on August 27.
“A permit application won Friday from the RNC,” Mike Litterst, communications manager at the national mall, said in an email to UPI. “It is still being treated; a resolution has not yet been taken and no entry permits have been issued.”
The permit also seeks permission from the RNC to film the facility around the National Mall, the Times reported. The permit acknowledges that the protesters may provide the president’s acceptance speech in the White House’s South Garden and upcoming events, The Hill reported.
Critics have complained that Trump and Republicans are politicizing National Park Service homes as a component of the president’s re-election campaign. Although the president is immune from the Hatch Act of the 1930s, which prohibits political acts on federal property, federal workers are not.
“The applicable law provides for a variety of technical exemptions, which a smart lawyer can muster to assert this is permissible,” Norman Eisen, Obama’s former leader of ethics at the White House, told the Pittsburgh Gazette. “But these loopholes provide for an occasion of this partisan nature of this magnitude and magnitude, and the forced political labor of hundreds, if any, of federal personnel.”
Due to public fitness protocols due to the coronavirus pandemic, occasions at the Republican National Convention from August 24 to 27 will be held at various locations, sometimes in Charlotte, NC, and others in Washington, DC Trump has canceled scheduled occasions in Jacksonville, Florida.