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Ivanka Trump used personal email for official White House business
First daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump used a personal email account dozens of times to conduct official White House business, The Washington Post reports, citing an internal White House investigation. It's an ironic revelation given her father's obsession with Hillary Clinton's own use of a private email server during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Federal law requires government officials to preserve written records of their activities—and that includes email. Government email systems are set up to comply with these laws, and federal IT guidelines require government officials to use their official email accounts for all official business. The use of official email accounts may also reduce the risk of sensitive communications being intercepted by foreign intelligence agencies.
[...] Ivanka Trump's use of a personal email account was discovered in September 2017. Ivanka said she was simply unfamiliar with rules requiring official business to be conducted via official email accounts—despite the fact that her father had made Hillary Clinton's violation of the same rules a central theme of his campaign.
Last year Politico reported that Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kusher, had been conducting official business using an email address on the same ijkfamily.com domain. But at the time it wasn't known if Ivanka was doing the same thing. We learned about Ivanka's use of the ijkfamily.com domain for government business last November, but until now we didn't know the extent of Ivanka's use of this activity.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:45AM (29 children)
This story is meant to bury other news. Junk like this is held in reserve, to be brought out as manufactured rage whenever an undesirable story gains traction in the news.
Did she send anything classified? Maybe something TOP SECRET//SCI//SAP like Hillary Clinton did? Did she order drone strikes from her phone, then have an aide attempt to destroy the evidence with a hammer? How about deleting tens of thousands of emails while under court order to preserve them?
No, no, and no. In other news, now buried:
The price of oil dropped by 25%.
Tijuana is pissed at the migrants bringing enough crime to somehow make the place worse. Many have been arrested.
North Korea destroyed 10 DMZ guard posts via explosions today. South Korea will destroy theirs next week via excavators.
A federal court just ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions about her email scheme, thanks to Judicial Watch.
A district attorney has charged 9 people for an election fraud scheme in Los Angeles, in which hundreds of homeless people around Skid Row were given cigarettes and cash in exchange for signing fake names.
Florida's incoming republican governor DeSantis got 18% of the vote from black women. This suggests a huge change in the political landscape.
Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that the federal law against female genital mutilation is unconstitutional, causing cases to be thrown out. In one of the cases, the girl had to be drugged with Valium to make her compliant.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @10:44AM (14 children)
Citations for each one, from a reputable news source? We'll wait.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @11:26AM
Whooosh much?
The point is that Trump is constantly making up things (smoke screen) to deflect from his real agenda of fleecing everyone.
No citations needed, this is parody.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @12:10PM (1 child)
You can find all of these easily via a search engine, including actual court documents and a full history of oil prices. You might need to use something less censored than google; good results can be had with duckduckgo. Probably bing will work too. Another search approach is to use multiple foreign search engines; they are unlikely to censor the same stuff.
This ain't wikipedia. You can use a search engine yourself. Just to be extra nice, here is the URL for you: https://duckduckgo.com/ [duckduckgo.com]
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:33PM
Translation "I can make up anything I want and you'll need to prove a negative in order to prove me wrong."
Sorry, but no citations means "plain bullshit".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Thursday November 22 2018, @02:16PM
You will not wait. If the poster does not spend their time catering to you, you will claim victory to yourself, or perhaps later in the thread. If they do, you will, at best, toss in another throwaway comment directing them to further waste their time.
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If a link on what you consider a reputable (read, aligned with you politically) news source is not cited, you will simply boilerplate a comment about the OP using non reputable sources.
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Your post has no point and no meaning, and will be forgotten.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:26PM (2 children)
Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case [freep.com]:
US and Mexican officials stoke up nationalist backlash against immigrants [wsws.org]:
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday November 23 2018, @04:48PM (1 child)
The OP stated that:
Yet, the quotes, and even the article linked to do not refer to any arrests or crimes. Only that right wing Mexicans are protesting about the caravan being there in Tijuana.
The OP is bringing up relevant topics in the past week or two... but does not seem to care if his facts are correct.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @10:16PM
Of all the articles to pick, seriously, wsws? That is explicitly socialist news.
If you want that slant, with no mention of the arrests, OK. Enjoy.
The mayor was out wearing a hat that said "MAKE TIJUANA GREAT AGAIN", oddly in English. Protesters were out shouting that I saw translated to "Mexico first". (they spoke in Spanish, at least mostly)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:51PM (6 children)
I didn't wait. I used my currently favorite search engine, entered his terms, and came up with some fascinating results. Please, learn to use a search engine, so that you can keep up.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:36PM (3 children)
Bitch, please. If you're going to make claims, back them up. Anyone can use a search engine to find just about anything (true or false). It's simple: link it or don't claim it.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @09:01PM (2 children)
Bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @09:44PM
Please...
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get this guy a clue
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:38AM
You sound like somebody with something to hide. What don't you want us to find out about all those events OP listed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @07:36AM (1 child)
Runaway, truly you are an idiot, and easily fascinated. Look! Shiny! Or for Arkansasians: Look! Squirrel!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 23 2018, @09:23AM
You just want to stroke my squirrel's tail.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @10:50AM (5 children)
Ahhhhhh, yes. The media shows photos of women and children, all those innocent little tykes looking for a better life. But, in reality, the caravan consists mostly of military aged males. It's an invasion. Who was that thing organized by, I wonder? Pueblo Sin Fronteras, that's who. Of course, Pueblo insists there is no political agenda. Yeah, right. Their very name is a political statement - "World Without Borders" calls for abolishing borders, nations, or anything else that gets in the way of lawless people going where they want, and doing what they want.
I say, meet these caravans with armed troops and artillery.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @05:53PM (4 children)
Now see TMB this is the true face of an authoritarian. No compasdion just blow em' up!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:44PM (3 children)
Ahem. The killer instinct isn't the sole province of authoritarians. Defending one's homeland is a pretty common trait among simians. Degenerates who won't defend their homeland tend to go extinct pretty quickly, or straight out genocided.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:31PM (1 child)
Nah, we let the morons duke it out. How else do you think humanity has been getting smarter even with all the wars and genocide?
Congrats on being moron #2983818474729, sadly you were too much of a coward to get killed in combat.
Sorry all you vets, just taking cheap shots at Runaway for being his typical prickish self.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:52PM
But, you always tell me that you LIKE pricks!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @10:45PM
Even the ones with "Bone Spurs"?
(Score: 4, Informative) by stretch611 on Thursday November 22 2018, @11:26AM (2 children)
Well the Korean guard posts are being "dismantled" not destroyed. I saw news about that from NPR. (and it was due to agreements between the Koreans; nothing that Trump was involved with.)
However, many of those stories seem dubious at best. Especially the 18% of Black women for DeSantis... I highly doubt that.
I guess things like the republican nominated supreme court chief justice calling out Trump is just manufactured rage too.
or Trump blaming poor forest management for the wildfires is too.
I can go on with a long list from just this week, but I don't think I need to go further offtopic
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @11:56AM
Evidently the governor now agrees with Trump, having decided to quietly adjust policy.
Forest rakes exist. They look like bulldozers with teeth. On hills and in areas where soil disturbance is really undesirable, humans do the work manually. It's not the insane expense that it might seem, because the pine needles can be sold.
Clearing firebreaks is useful too. Having regular small burns is useful. These too have been hindered by wacky regulations.
Oh, and about the DMZ: Who are you to contradict the South Korean president? He credits Trump. You have no idea what is going on behind the scenes. Note that Trump can act from the Oval office, so this isn't something to measure by trips, although that happened too.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:53PM
I overheard some woman on the bus in brooklyn lampooning Trump's comments on forest management. I didn't set her straight, because i wasn't party to the conversation, but she obviously knew nothing about forest fires or forestry.
I grew up in the Rockies; my mother dated a smokejumper for years. Forest management to minimize fire risk is a real, legitimate practice. It was policy in the 70's and 80's, and began to wane in the 90's. Environmentalists argued that controlled burns and other measures to reduce undergrowth were sops to Big Timber; forests should be left to their natural state without human intervention. Forest fires were part of that natural cycle, and studies were done to show that many species of trees need fire to germinate.
It became quite controversial when the "let it burn" policy was pursued in Yellowstone Park and something like 70% of the place went up in flames in one season.
However, the hands-off school of thought came to dominate federal forest management policy.
So, to me, Trump's comments hearken back to the earlier approach from 40 years ago.
Of course, none of that will come through media controlled by coastal media elites, who have zero understanding of land management or forestry or even their nearest nature preserve, which they have heard is nice but which they've never personally been to. They only want another round to fabricate another installment of Orange Man BAD.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @01:24PM (2 children)
You forget,
Trump cozies up to Butcher of Arabia
Trump facilitates North Korea to built out its arsenal
Trump profits from its properties for personal business
Trump continues to ignore Global Warming
Trump's "policies" are risking American dominance in the world
Trump sends money to "caravan" and then smears them to gain votes
as for your "outrage", the judge was rather clear
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/health/fgm-female-genital-mutilation-law.html [nytimes.com]
So why isn't it banned in the state??? And fuck you over your fake outrage. It's the same reason why murder is almost exclusively a *state* crime and federal laws lack jurisdiction. And why feds can't prosecute most murders or the charges would have been thrown out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Jurisdiction [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @03:17PM (1 child)
Assuming that the bastards doing it to little girls get paid, it is at least as much a matter of interstate commerce as growing and smoking your own weed.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:33PM
The federalism angle surprised me there. Given that the Detroit Free Press article I linked up there mentions girls being brought into Michigan from out of state, I'm really not certain why the interstate commerce clause wasn't applied, as it is to justify federal cannabis prohibition. I'm a fan of federalism, but I'm left in confusion about how on earth something like an FGM ban violates federalism but prohibition against a harmless plant doesn't violate federalism! It's all just upside down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @03:35PM (1 child)
I've been seeing those things daily in my "mainstream media" news feed.
So, how can you say it's buried? And how can your comment be modded up?
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people these days? I feel like I'm living in Idiocracy now. Present company included.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:43PM
The answer is that there is a dedicated base of fake users all over the net and a mix of idiots. The fakers have propped up the true morons making them feel legitimized, and thus you see a massive surge in stupidity.
The other aspect is the brainwashing done by the GOP. Their talk radio shows have sowed an insane number of lies over the last many decades and the post 9/11 atmosphere tipped conservatives over the edge and into believing just about anything that scares them.
All that aside, either this person is just posting the latest Facebook clickbait headlines or they are a shill stoking the red hot propaganda.
There are really only two options for dealing with stupid. First, ignore it and stupid comments just slide into oblivion. Two, mock it relentlessly until the idiots provide their sources. 9/10 times the sources are infowars, breitbart, or other similarly reputable outlets.
There is a third option, you can try and use logic, reason, and facts to argue against the stupid. This is not recommended on average since the shill will just reply with endless amounts of bullshit and make you waste time researching proper rebuttals. The idiot will rely on their emotional "gut feeling" to determine you're full of shit or part of some massive conspiracy. It is a noble approach, but in our new 4 hour news cycle there is a high probability you are wasting your time.
Personally I go for the noble approach first, then when I receive ignorant bullshit replies I just go straight into mockery. Gaaark may ride your ass, Buzzy boy will show his man-child side, and Runaway will make a fool of himself like John Wayne in a French Maid's outfit.