According to Vinnie Longobardo of OccupyDemocrats.com :
“As part of Trump’s efforts to convince Congressional members of the so-called Freedom Caucus to support the bill, his social Media Director Dan Scavino Jr. tweeted a message today encouraging the President’s followers to call Congress to press their representative to pass it. Within a few hours, suspiciously similar tweets were sent out from both Trump’s personal twitter feed and the official White House account.
Therein lies the problem. Any use of federal money to directly lobby Congress either in favor of or against a bill violates federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 1913, a law that’s been on the books since the late-1940’s.
White House press Secretary Sean Spicer was confronted with the charges of impropriety at his afternoon press briefing and repeated his usual canard that these laws simply do not apply to the President. Asked if the White House was worried about violating anti-lobbying statutes, Spicer replied:”
“It is not…the president…it doesn’t…that is not applicable to the president, no.”
That was certainly coherent. Is spicer taking speech lessons from trump?
The rest of the article
In addition to the tweets, trumps propaganda machine, whitehouse.gov, included the following:
GET INVOLVED
Obamacare has hurt millions. Now is the time to repeal and replace it. Call your Representative and let them know you are behind #AHCA!
Find Your Representative Here
Even if this really is use of gov resources to lobby for his agenda, it’ll probably get brushed off or lost in the rest of the clutter. It could however, be one more nail in the impeachment coffin.