Ivanka Trump busted using personal email for White House government business

[Bladewire]

But.. but THE EMAILS!

Ivanka stated that she didn't know there were regulations about using personal email for White House business.

[Bladewire]

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year

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.

The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell.

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.

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.

Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records.

Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were “marked classified.” The FBI later determined that 110 emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.

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Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year

Ivanka Trump often discussed or relayed official White House business last year using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
By Carol D. Leonnig and
Josh Dawsey November 19 at 6:34 PM
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.

The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell.

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.

Here's why the use of private email accounts and private email servers can be problematic for a president's administration. (Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“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.

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.

Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records.

Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were “marked classified.” The FBI later determined that 110 emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.

[Inspector general blasts Comey and says others at FBI showed ‘willingness to take official action’ to hurt Trump]

Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Trump’s daughter did not know that government officials should not use private emails for official business.

“There’s the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,” Evers said. “There is no reasonable suggestion that she didn’t know better. Clearly everyone joining the Trump administration should have been on high alert about personal email use.”

Ivanka Trump and her husband set up personal emails with the domain “ijkfamily.com” through a Microsoft system in December 2016, as they were preparing to move to Washington so Kushner could join the White House, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

The couple’s emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft, the people said.

Trump used her personal account to discuss government policies and official business less than 100 times — often replying to other administration officials who contacted her through her private email, according to people familiar with the review.

Another category of less-substantive emails may have also violated the records law: hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house, they said.

People close to Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staff about prohibited use of private email, according to people familiar with the situation.

Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations.

[RedFred]

[Bladewire]

House Democrats are pledging to open an investigation into Ivanka Trump's use of unsecured non government email servers for conducting White House government business.

[directfiesta]

Priceless ....

The WH is a full-time supplier of stories ... not need to make fake news ...


LOCK HER UP !!!!!!

[Bladewire]

Ivanka Trump reportedly violated federal records rules by sending hundreds of emails to government officials on her personal email in 2017

[ghjghj]

Originally Posted by directfiesta

LOCK HER UP !!!!!!

[Bladewire]

↑↑↑ Alt-right hate fake nic in complete meltdown

[Bladewire]

Trey Goudy sees no reason to investigate Ivanka Trump for illegally using an insecure email server to do White House Government business.

[2MuchMark]

[beerptrol]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Trey Goudy sees no reason to investigate Ivanka Trump for illegally using an insecure email server to do White House Government business.

of course. There's nothing to gain politically. Plus she's on his team and daughter of his cult leader aka cadet Bone Spurs

[Rochard]

Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.

[King Mark]

How she ain't know? Her dad wanted Hilary locked up for the same shit. Was a very public thing lol.

These Trumps man... shit on the left all day but do nothing but copy their mistakes, speeches, etc.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Dead Eye

How she ain't know? Her dad wanted Hilary locked up for the same shit. Was a very public thing lol.

These Trumps man... shit on the left all day but do nothing but copy their mistakes, speeches, etc.

Trumpers are running out of bullshit to defend the bullshitter in chief.

[Busty2]

She is eminently fuckable but Dumb just like her father

They should go back to being slum lords and leave running the country to someone who knows how to do it!

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Busty2

She is eminently fuckable but Dumb just like her father

They should go back to being slum lords and leave running the country to someone who knows how to do it!

Nah I don't think she's dumb. I'm guessing she's pretty smart. I wonder though what she thinks about everything.

[huey]

Wasn't a problem for Hillary so shouldn't be on for her.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by huey

Wasn't a problem for Hillary so shouldn't be on for her.

It was a two-year problem for Hillary so it will be a two-year problem for Ivanka mushroom cock.

Triggered alt-right hate fake nic troll response in 3.. 2.. 1...

[ghjghj]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

↑↑↑ Alt-right hate fake nic in complete meltdown

[ghjghj]

[Bladewire]

↑↑↑ I was right again!

[huey]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

It was a two-year problem for Hillary so it will be a two-year problem for Ivanka mushroom cock.

Triggered alt-right hate fake nic troll response in 3.. 2.. 1...

Id bang the fuck out of her mushroom cock!

[astronaut x]

[PornDude]

[Busty2]

Originally Posted by PikaPoka

Nice Nice

[Paul Markham]

Except Clinton did something much worse. It says so in Bladewire's post.

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.


You should all read BW's post.

[King Mark]

I read it. Still doesn't explain how she "din know"...

I'm no Hillary defender. Not a liar defender either.

[celandina]

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Except Clinton did something much worse.

You don't know that

Nobody does

Because Ivanka hasn't been investigated yet.

The Trump's have a habit of lying

As a matter of national security Ivanka must be investigated as she's assistant to the president, has a security clearance, and is privy to the nation's most sensitive information.

The same rules apply to everyone nobody is above the law.

[beerptrol]

Those same rules they bash everyone else for breaking don't apply to them. That's how those elitist think! The cultist will continue to defend and make excuses for their elitist master!