A legal expert is enraged by the Trump White House's new Myspace spoof website launched during the government shutdown, saying "I can't believe this is real" and calling the move "disgusting."
Eliza Orlins, a public defender and former Manhattan district attorney candidate, said in an Instagram reel that the White House launched a page on its website called "Mysafespace" to attack Democrats and mock them with racist and sexist "jokes" about Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other leaders.
“The official White House website has launched something called 'mysafespace.' It’s hosted on the actual .gov website that your government tax dollars are paying for during the shutdown," Orlins said.
The site features fake profiles for Schumer, Jeffries, billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, "antifa" and others. It calls Jeffries "Temu Obama" and "sombrero guy," among other things, with a background covered in sombreros and showing him photoshopped wearing a sombrero in multiple pictures. It also has a top eight friends section — just like Myspace.
The "about me" section mocks Democrats, saying, "Hey we're Democrats in the House and Senate. We love DEI, transgender for everyone, and handing out taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. We couldn't care less if our men and women in uniform get paid or if our neighborhoods are safe - we just love playing politics with people's livelihoods!!"
“And all this went live while the government is shut down and federal workers and members of the military aren't being paid," Orlins said.
Orlins questioned if the site is a violation of the Hatch Act, which forbids partisan activity in the federal workplace.
"The irony of this being posted on Whitehouse.gov now, while the president himself may be technically exempt from the Hatch Act, that doesn't mean that other people are. And who approved this? How much taxpayer money went into it? And think about the precedent it sets when the president is using whitehouse.gov to attack political opponents," she added.
"This is sickening... This absolutely crosses a line. I can't believe the callousness of this government as they refuse to fund SNAP for 40 million people, they triple, quadruple, quintuple people's health premiums for next year and take away Medicaid and Medicare for so many people. It's just disgusting and that your tax payer dollars are going to fund websites like this instead of funding the things that they should be funding," Orlins said.

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