Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.
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.
The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. Trump attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” for using a personal email account as secretary of state.
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.
Like Trump, Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely.
“She was the worst offender in the White House,” said a former senior U.S. government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal dynamics.
After discovering the extent of her email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell, Ivanka Trump’s attorney, to help review her personal emails to determine which were personal and which were official business, according to the people.
The White House Counsel’s Office did not have access to her personal account and could not review it without invading her privacy and possibly violating privileged communications with her attorneys, people familiar with the review said.
What is the consensus Trump family moron ranking? Based on this latest reveal about Ivanka and her previously established misunderstanding of basic English, I think it looks like:
1 - 95. Every Trump that is wisely staying out of the limelight96. Ivanka Trump (still the smartest of the famous bunch)97. Donald J. Trump (the patriarch never comes in first in anything)98. Eric Trump ("hunter", but not yet caught out in anything blatantly illegal)99. An inanimate carbon rod100. Donald Trump Jr.
Anyways. She was unaware of the rules about government e-mail. That's... incredible.
If she violated laws governing the handling of classified or secure information, absolutely. She doesn’t get a pass.
Hey look! Another double standard banana republicans look like complete shit over, go figure. I haven't been this shocked since, like, yesterday morning.
I'm sure Melania is just devastated.
Yawn
As with every other day that Donnie has been in office: I look forward to the Trumpettes coming up with new and wondrous bullshit to defend him.
Sure, as long as they lock up Hillary too.
I'll just leave this here:
Two of the four classified messages discovered in emails turned over to the State Department by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton were labeled "top secret," the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday.
The development in the FBI inquiry came the same day that a top intelligence official whose office has been reviewing some of Clinton’s e-mails informed congressional leaders that top-secret information had been contained in two e-mails that traveled across the server.
Let her beat herself. Drag her into court just like they did to Petraeus. She is just as guilty as he is...
I thought everyone said this was a Republican conspiracy and there was nothing to investigate. looks like maybe there is.