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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: 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.