President Donald Trump dismissed the commissioner and president of the Federal Electoral Commission of the United States.
Trump assumed the position on January 20, and since then he has assumed a change of mass image of the government, leaving aside and dismissing hundreds of senior officials of the agency and officials while trying to install more loyal and reduction of bureaucracy.
Weintraub, like many others, was in Trump's sights, but did not seem to stand.
“I received a letter from Potus today that intended to retire as commissioner and president of [the FEC]”Weintraub wrote Thursday in a publication about X.” There is a legal way to replace the fec commissioners, it is not so. I have been lucky enough to serve the American people and cause good problems along the way. That doesn't change soon. “
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Commissioner of the Federal Elections Commission of US (Federal Electoral Commission/Brochure through Reuters, Archive)
Together with its publication, Weintraub published a copy of the White House letter.
“Dear Weintraub Commissioner,” says the letter. “Therefore, he is eliminated as a member of the Federal Electoral Commission, with immediate effect. Thank you for your service in the Commission.”
The letter was dated January 31, 2025 and signed by Trump.
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Weintraub pointed to President Trump in 2019, when he said that his “without foundation” statements about electoral fraud were “harmful to our democracy.”
She criticized the president during an appearance in CNN and said she was spreading information for which she had no evidence.
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“I think it is harmful to our democracy,” Weintraub told the host John Berman, “to disseminate information like that if there is no evidence.”
Weintraub insisted that there was no evidence of unbridled voting fraud in 2016, responding to repeated Trump claims otherwise.
Joshua Nelson of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
