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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: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @10:42AM (11 children)
Why should she when she's already using a private server run by the Kushner family corporation, and she's used a private RNC server (same ones that lost the 22 million Bush emails).
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @10:54AM (10 children)
Citations needed. Does Ivanka use the Kueshner servers for official business, or are you just presuming that she does?
(Score: 4, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 22 2018, @12:21PM (9 children)
> Ethics officials uncovered hundreds of emails sent by a domain Trump shares with her husband Jared Kushner, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/ivanka-trump-emails-senior-democrat-investigation-personal-use [theguardian.com]
LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @01:36PM (7 children)
As stated above, she did wrong, and deserves some punishment. Gubbermint needs to sort those emails, and see if any of it is really bad. For the most part, it appears the emails are relatively innocent - she says she sent emails to coordinate her kid's coming and goings, and stuff like that. I am not sure that such things are illegal, or if they should be illegal. So, gubbermint checks out what's on the server, decide whether she needs a stern talking to, a spanking, or a real flogging. Lock her up? Phhhht - probably not. It all depends on what's found there.
(Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 22 2018, @01:49PM
LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @05:49PM (2 children)
Does it hurt having only half a brain?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:45PM (1 child)
I can't feel for you, so I can't tell you whether it hurts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:29PM
Well at the very least you can check yourself for colon cancer while you're up there.
Seriously, you must be the most dedicated Russian troll, or your family really hates you.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:24PM (2 children)
So she claims. I cannot think of a single instance that any member of the Trump family has told the truth when confronted with a wrongdoing. Her lawyers said they reviewed the emails and there's nothing to see ... but I think the FBI should review each and every email, and all of the logs to ensure that no emails went missing (to be found with the Lockness Monster and daddy Trump's tax returns).
I'm no fan of the Clintons, but the Trumps appear to be even less trustworthy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @08:31PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w255PvXmb60 [youtube.com]
Less trustworthy than the Clintons? To date, we haven't seen the Trumps accepting millions of dollar to approve of the sale of fissionable materials to Russia. Or, more accurately, accepting millions of dollars to take no notice of said sale.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22 2018, @09:36PM
EMAILS! CLINTONS!
You realize there are other corrupt politicians you could focus on right? For all the "TDS" accusations here it is pretty amusing how crazy you get for anything Clinton and it is hardly even on topic!
No matter how tirelessly you work Putin won't make you his butt-buddy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 22 2018, @07:47PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w255PvXmb60 [youtube.com]