{"id":32732,"date":"2025-02-07T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/fired-federal-election-commission-leader-rants-on-social-media-after-removal-by-trump-this-isnt-it\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:59:14","slug":"fired-federal-election-commission-leader-rants-on-social-media-after-removal-by-trump-this-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/fired-federal-election-commission-leader-rants-on-social-media-after-removal-by-trump-this-isnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Federal Election Commission leader rants on social media after removal by Trump: \u2018This isn\u2019t it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> fired the U.S. Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub, sending her a letter regarding her “removal.”<\/p>\n

Trump took office Jan. 20, and since then has taken on a massive government makeover, sidelining and firing hundreds of top agency officials and civil servants as he attempts to install more loyalists and downsize the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

Weintraub, like many others, was in Trump\u2019s crosshairs, but she did not appear to be standing down.<\/p>\n

“Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [the FEC],” Weintraub wrote Thursday in a post on X. “There\u2019s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners \u2014 this isn\u2019t it. I\u2019ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That\u2019s not changing anytime soon.”<\/p>\n

HOUSE GOP DEMANDS FEC PROBE \u2018POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL\u2019 ACTBLUE FUNDRAISING AS DEM PLATFORM HAULS HARRIS MILLIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Along with her post, Weintraub posted a copy of the letter from the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Dear Commissioner Weintraub,” the letter states. “You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately. Thank you for your service on the Commission.”<\/p>\n

The letter was dated Jan. 31, 2025, and signed by Trump.<\/p>\n

FEC CHAIR: TRUMP IS \u2018DAMAGING TO OUR DEMOCRACY\u2019 WITH \u2018BASELESS\u2019 VOTER FRAUD ALLEGATIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Weintraub took aim at President Trump in 2019, when she said his “baseless” claims about voter fraud<\/a> were “damaging to our democracy.”<\/p>\n

She criticized the president during an appearance on CNN and claimed he was spreading information for which he had no proof.<\/p>\n

“I think it is damaging to our democracy,” Weintraub told host John Berman, “to spread information like that if there is no proof.”<\/p>\n

Weintraub insisted there was no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016, responding to Trump\u2019s repeated claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Joshua Nelson contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump fired the U.S. Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub, sending her a letter regarding her “removal.” Trump took office Jan. 20, and since then has taken on a massive government makeover, sidelining and firing hundreds of top agency officials and civil servants as he attempts to install more loyalists and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}