Almost a year and a half ago it became evident that Ivanka Trump had used her personal email to send official White House messages. At the time it was reported on by the press. It was also pointed out that Ivanka wasn’t even a White House employee at the time.
For some reason this dead issue has taken on new life in the media and Ivanka is being compared to Hillary Clinton. Her lawyer is hitting back over the ridiculous comparisons:
FOX NEWS – Ivanka Trump’s lawyer is hitting back against “misinformation being peddled” in the press alleging that the president’s daughter sent “hundreds” of emails about government business using her personal email.
A report published Monday night by The Washington Post claimed that Trump, who serves as her father’s senior adviser, may have violated federal records rules by using a personal email account to contact “White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistant” concerning government matters, as well as her personal travel arrangements.
The newspaper’s story, which cites people familiar with the records who reviewed them amid a public records lawsuit, contains no indication that any of Trump’s emails contained classified or sensitive government information.
In a statement to Fox News, Peter Mirijanian, the spokesperson for Trump’s ethics lawyer Abbe Lowell, emphasized those distinctions to the Hillary Clinton email scandal that engulfed the 2016 presidential campaign.
“To address misinformation being peddled about Ms. Trump’s personal email, she did not create a private server in her house or office, there was never classified information transmitted, the account was never transferred or housed at Trump Organization, no emails were ever deleted, and the emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules,” Mirijanian said.
He added: “When concerns were raised in the press 14 months ago, Ms. Trump reviewed and verified her email use with White House Counsel and explained the issue to congressional leaders.” Mirijanian told the Post that Trump had used a personal account prior to being briefed on ethics rules.
The Presidential Records Act requires that all official communication by White House officials be archived, and Mirijanian said Trump already turned over all such communications from her personal account months ago for that purpose.
The Post acknowledged later in its story that Trump’s actions “could have” broken that law, after initially citing officials as saying that she had in fact violated federal rules.
Mirijanian explained that Trump used her personal account “almost always” for logistics matters, as opposed to more sensitive information that could implicate other federal laws.
“Like most people, before entering into government service, Ms. Trump used a private email,” he said. “When she entered the government, she was given a government email account for official use. While transitioning into government, until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family.”
The comparisons to Hillary Clinton are completely ridiculous. She was a cabinet member who installed her own insecure email server to manage her official White House emails in order to keep Congress from getting their hands on it. And it was found that she had classified emails on her server as well. It was a blatant disregard for the law. But the FBI gave her a pass, despite her criminal negligence.
So yeah, that’s exactly like Ivanka. 🙄
I still don’t understand why this is such a big issue now, especially since it was already big news in the press over a year ago and reportedly dealt with by White House officials. Are they that bored?