“If it’s Goya, it has to be good,” captioned a photo, showing Vanna White-style canned beans, adding in a translation, “If it’s Goya, it has to be good.”
“We are all truly blessed … to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder,” said Unanue. “We have an amazing builder, and we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president.”
Goya is the largest Hispanic company in the country and is a private business. It is unclear how boycott calls have impacted business, but the president said in a tweet Wednesday morning that Goya is “GREAT.”
But her daughter and the West Wing adviser could have violated a federal rule of ethics with her message. The United States Government Ethics Office, whose objective is “to prevent conflicts of interest in the executive branch”, has guidelines on guarantees.
A Trump spokeswoman defended the publication, which she said showed “personal support” for the brand, criticizing the media and the “movement to cancel culture.”
“Ivanka is proud of this strong Hispanic-owned business with deep roots in the United States and has every right to express her personal support,” White House spokeswoman Carolina Hurley said in a statement.
Former director of the Government Ethics Office, Walter Shaub, says yes, “Goya’s tweet was a violation of ethics.”
“If you promote the company’s product in an obvious response to the backlash the company faces from the CEO’s comments about its parent-president, you consciously link your account in people’s minds to its official activities; it creates the appearance of an official sanction. ” added.
The ethics expert concluded that there is a “strong appearance” in this situation that Trump was endorsing the product in its official capacity and that he is clearly violating misuse of position regulation.
Virginia Canter, the chief ethics adviser for the CREW watchdog group, Citizens for Accountability and Ethics in Washington, told CNN that the Government Ethics Office has the authority to oversee complaints about publications like this.
If anyone were to file a complaint about Ivanka Trump’s post, which received swift reprimands from critics on social media, the ethics office would send a letter to the designated White House ethics officer requesting an investigation and asking him to consider disciplinary action. The White House attorney’s office would be involved in an investigation, which would eventually consult with the chief of staff and the president.
Canter said it is “highly unlikely” that the president, his father, will do anything about it, but noted that it would be a potentially incriminating crime in another administration.
Ultimately, Trump’s boss is the president, his father. And while this is not a violation of the Hatch Act, the Hatch Act is intended to prevent the federal government from affecting elections or conducting its activities in a partisan way, Trump’s previous actions on violations could signal how he would respond if his the daughter had broken this rule. So far in the Trump administration, several officials have been found to violate the Hatch Act, but the White House has virtually ignored those reports.
The campaign, which aims to help unemployed Americans find new careers, was criticized for its title, which can be interpreted as too simplistic a slogan to describe the collapse of unemployment that is occurring for millions of Americans as a global pandemic continues to devastate physical and financial health.
CNN’s David Goldman and Kate Bennett contributed to this report.
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