BREAKING: Ivanka Trump Accused Of Using Her Personal Email For Government Business

This doesn’t look or sound good.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Ivanka Trump has been accused of violating federal records rules by sending “hundreds” of emails to government officials from her personal email account. This is according to “people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.”

Take that as you will.

White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.

If true, this is extremely awkward, considering that Trump and everyone– us included– BASHED Hillary Clinton for being so careless.

Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. Trump said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.
The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell.

However, there’s one big detail that’s buried in this story. None of her emails contained classified information.

In a statement, Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Lowell, acknowledged that the president’s daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information.

“While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” he said in a statement.

Mirijanian said Ivanka Trump turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records.

And he stressed that her email use was different than that of Clinton, who had a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton’s emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation.

“Ms. Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted,” Mirijanian said.

Lots of reactions on Twitter…

Ok, even though none of these emails involved national security or were classified, she shouldn’t have done this. But to compare this—in any way—with what Hillary did is insane nonsense. https://t.co/j6TAOMWqFI

— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) November 20, 2018

The reasoning behind Ivanka Trump using a private email for government business is that she hadn’t been briefed on the rules yet. Her father ran a campaign that had a large focus on Hillary Clinton using a private email for government business. https://t.co/qzChSk71zB

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 20, 2018

so nice to have a day off.. stayed away from social media for the most part. Stopped by twitter to see what’s what. And, nothing has changed. The who has been screaming about how @HillaryClinton did nothing wrong can’t stop telling us how wrong Ivanka Trump somehow is. Umm

— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) November 20, 2018

Hey @GOP,

Where is the outrage?

How about the investigation?

Should we start “lock her up” chants?#ButHerEmailshttps://t.co/LrqSs3WoTs

— Rachel R. Gonzalez (@RachelRGonzalez) November 20, 2018

Lots of 2016 comparisons being thrown around, but this can’t be a case of ignorance, carelessness, or even the search for convenience. This is a function of pure hubris. She did it because she thought the rules, well litigated in 2016, didn’t apply to her. https://t.co/3YvAbu9F5w

— Ned Price (@nedprice) November 20, 2018

If everyone could stop breaking the rules and USING THEIR PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNTS FOR GOVERNMENT BUSINESS, that would be great, thanks.

No one is above the law. Period.

h/t Washington Post