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Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com)
The Washington Post is reporting that Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails last year to White House aids, Cabinet officials and her assistants. Many of the emails were "in violation of federal records rules," the report says. Ivanka's practices are reminiscent of the personal email account Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state. From the report: 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. 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. A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump's attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe 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," reports 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. He went on to say that her email use was different than that of Clinton. "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.
"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. He went on to say that her email use was different than that of Clinton. "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.
I hate both parties. Both parties suffer from personality worship disorder. Some one needs to invent slime-antivirus to clean out DC.
"from the hypocrisy-at-its-finest dept."
I was unaware also that Ivanka Trump is the Secretary of Stare much less an elected government official. Let's crucify Orange Man's "Russian" wife for asking to have the color of the drapes changed by her personal email.
Kill yourself, Beau. The world would be better without you.
why is Trump's daughter high enough in the administration that this matters? Can you say Conflict of Interest? How about emoluments clause? And yes, I'm not ashamed I had to google how to spell "emoluments".
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Yeah. Totally not the same as Hillary Clinton. Fox News tells us that Hillary was selling children's organs through her personal email server, and Ivanka was just doing extra credit work to end cyberbullying and world hunger. Totally different. MAGA. Lock her up. Trump tells us that federal laws don't apply to the first family anyway. Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Fake News. Liberal Media is the enemy.
How does Apple toady feel about Trump conducting government business on an unsecured I-phone?
I wouldn't know, being a security specialist an impartial observer. I'll give you and the other mouth-breathers my professional read on that situation though.
A) iPhones are probably way better secured by default than whatever they have done to the "official" government Blackberries or other phones.
B) Trump isn't conducting "government business" over an iPhone unless you consider tweeting "government business" - if you do, may God help you, as the rest of us certainly cannot.
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My guy did something? Your guy did something!
Maybe less brainwashed knee-jerk deflecting outrage and instead more outrage at any politician who does something shitty. Stop being part of the problem.
The FBI found 3 Clinton emails with possibly sensitive info in the, not "thousands of classified" ones.
Also Clinton didn't destroy anything. Her IT guy did that by himself to cover up his mistakes, and there is zero indication that she knew anything about it.
When you have to revise history to make your current leaders look good, you have a very big problem.
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Wow. So much hate, so little knowledge.
Hint: Ivanka is not and never has been married to Donald Trump.
Doesn't stop him from fucking her.
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Spoken like a typically ignorant American who has never been outside the US. You got yours, so everything is right with the world...
We (?, Russia?) elected a government full of old white guys who think it's just fabulous to take children away from their parents for the horrible crime of trying to get away from violence in their own countries. These same old white guys think it's OK to undo decades of protections from industrial pollution. Oh, yes, and because our rich folks (more old white guys, mostly) aren't rich enough, they should get tax breaks, even as the roads, bridges, and airports that helped them become so rich are falling apart because there isn't enough tax revenue to pay for maintenance and repairs. These old white guys who run things have convinced a large portion of the poorly educated population (no tax revenues for schools) that "truth isn't truth" and facts don't matter. These same old white guys think that a health care system designed to bankrupt people who happen to get sick or injured is a great idea.
Unfortunately, those old white guys, through their tax cuts and gerrymandering of election districts, have managed to perpetuate their rule by guaranteeing that the general population gets dumber every year. They've put a moron/maniac in charge who thinks that decades of work to prevent world wide conflict was all wasted and our friends are now enemies and our enemies now friends.
So yes, it is embarrassing to be American. I want people in other countries who read this to know that we aren't all as insane/stupid as your news programs must make us look. One day the pendulum will swing back the other way despite the GOPs attempts to tie it off to their side. Hopefully we'll be able to undo the damage that Trump has already and will continue to inflict on the US and the rest of the world.