- FEC president said President Donald Trump tried to shoot.
- Ellen Winterop as a FEC delegate has been working since 2002.
- Weintraub said that the separation message it obtained from Trump is not a “legal way” to replace it.
Ellen Winterop, head of the Federal Electoral Committee, said President Donald Trump is trying to keep her away from the agency.
Winterop wrote in a file X post On Thursday evening, which came with a dismissal message signed by Trump.
“There is a legal way to replace the FEC-Commissioners, this is not the case,” Weintraub added.
He received a message from Potus today, claiming to remove me as a commissioner and head of FEC. There is a legal way to replace the FEC-this is not. I was lucky to serve the American people and raised some good problems along the way. This does not change any time soon. pic.twitter.com/7voecn2vpj
– Ellen L. Weintraub (@Ellenlweintraub.bsky.social) (EllenLweintraub) February 6, 2025
According to the participation of Weintraub, Trump’s message was dated January 31. Weintraub has worked as a delegate since 2002. He runs FEC and supervises compliance with federal election laws.
Although Winterop’s term as a commissioner ended in April 2007, it continued to work in FEC and headed in 2003, 2013 and 2019. The fourth time this year.
According to federal law, FEC Commissioners are appointed at six years. Commissioners can stay in FEC after the date of the end of their term until an alternative is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
“I was fortunate to serve the American people and raised some good problems along the way. This does not change any time soon,” Winterop wrote in office on Thursday.
FEC’s press office refused to comment on the Weintraub post. Trump representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
I told the New York Times in the New York Times in interview She published on Thursday that she was “really surprised” by Trump’s attempt to reject her.
“There were dozens of complaints filed against the president,” Wentrop told the Times.
“I have indicated it. I wrote about this. So I am not really surprised because I am on their radar,” I continued.
In 2020, weintraub criticized Trump after he said that the expansion of the mail voting would lead to widespread fraud for voters.
Winterop wrote in a Subject 66-Post In x in May 2020.
“The real leaders speak the truth,” she added.
