With the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 busy issuing flurries of subpoenas, it’s easy to forget that they’re not the only game in town when it comes to investigations of Donald Trump and his associates.  There’s the ongoing investigation in New York state, as well as Manhattan and Westchester County. There’s the still unresolved case of Rudy Giuliani, whose offices were raided back on Apr. 28. And there’s a special federal investigation opened back in October into how the Trump White House wadded up the Hatch Act and used it to wipe … whatever needed wiping.  After months of investigation, The Washington Post now reports that “at least” 13 senior Trump officials have been found to violate the Hatch Act, illegally mixing campaign and government events. This wasn’t just a matter of Trump telling people to disregard the Act, though it was clear that he did. This was, according to the report: “what appeared to be a taxpayer-funded campaign apparatus within the upper echelons of the executive branch.” Trump didn’t just mix campaign events with government events. He turned the government into a branch of his campaign. Read more