"If you want to say cabinet secretaries shouldn’t speak at conventions, go ahead. "But Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo didn’t invent this; last night Pompeo just did it with a more dramatic backdrop than past cabinet secretaries." Conway announced this week that she was leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month, though the move was unrelated to her Hatch Act violations. House Democrats are already launching an investigation into Pompeo over whether he violated the Hatch Act by making his taped address from Jerusalem while touting President Trump's foreign policy accomplishments. HUD Secretary Ben Carson is also set to speak at the convention on Thursday.

Source: Fox News August 26, 2020 22:18 UTC