Ms. Weintraub, who has served as a Democratic commissioner on the bipartisan panel since 2002, posted a short letter signed by Mr. Trump on social media that said she was “hereby removed” from the commission effective immediately.
Ellen L. Weintraub, chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), maintained Thursday that Donald Trump had informed her of her dismissal "effective immediately." In going public with her firing, the chairwoman argued that Trump's decision was illegal: "There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners -this isn’t it."
President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move that the Democratic official claims is illegal. Weintraub, who has served as an FEC commissioner since 2002, shared the termination letter she received from the president on X and signaled that she won’t be leaving her post quietly. “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [FEC],” Weintraub wrote on the social media platform. “There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it.”
