President Donald Trump said Wednesday he may use the White House grounds to deliver his nomination acceptance speech for the Republican National Convention, a blatantly unethical move that may force many White House aides to break federal law.

“I’ll probably do mine live from the White House,” Trump said on the pro-Trump Fox News program, Fox & Friends, The American Independent reports.

Giving the speech from the White House is “the easiest from the standpoint of security” for the convention, Trump said. The RNC has made a myriad of changes regarding convention security as the pandemic persists.

But this would violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from conducting partisan political activities on government property.

“Every White House staff member who participates in this violates the Hatch Act,” Richard Painter, the former Chief Ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush tweeted.

Here we go …. again.
A staged political event at the White House. Every White House staff member who participates in this violates the Hatch Act.

Trump may deliver convention acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House. https://t.co/3OT7q4uRK5

— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) August 5, 2020

And according to MSNBC political analyst Richard Stengel, Trump delivering his speech at the White House “is the clearest conceivable violation of the Hatch Act.”

“[Hundreds] of White House staffers would be violating it, not to mention charges of criminal appropriation of Congressional funds for political purposes,” Stengel wrote in a tweet.

But breaking federal laws is nothing new for Trump, and The Intercept notes he’s broken enough laws to land him in prison for ten years. If he’s ever prosecuted for this, that is.

And his aides have also violated the Hatch Act on numerous occasions. That’s especially true for White House aide Kellyanne Conway, who’s broken it dozens of times, without facing any disciplinary action.

There’s also a good chance that Ivanka Trump, who’s also a White House aide, violated the Hatch Act when she promoted Goya Beans because aides aren’t allowed to use their official positions to endorse products. Then there’s the recent campaign ad his aides were apparently forced to make.

Plans for the convention itself are still up in the air, thanks to Trump’s apparent inability to make cogent decisions as to where it should be held while ultimately avoiding coronavirus restrictions has caused complications. In June he decided to move the convention from Charlotte, North Carolina to Jacksonville Florida because Charlotte failed to guarantee that Trump could both fill an arena and allow those attending to go mask-free.

But after that decision was made, Florida experienced a huge coronavirus outbreak, which meant that Trump was facing the same problem all over again, with the additional problem that the convention would create security concerns.

So now Trump was back to square one — Charlotte, where he announced he’d just have a small gathering. Where he said he would accept the nomination before admitting he was considering holding the speech at the White House.

The Republican Party hasn’t released a schedule for the convention, but it’s likely to be held between August 24 —27. Whether Trump will break additional federal laws in the meantime remains to be seen.