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Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Amid reports that first daughter and White House senior advisor Ivanka Trump exchanged hundreds of official government business emails using a personal email account, top Democrats on Capitol Hill "want to know if Ivanka complied with the law" and in the next Congress plan to continue their investigation of the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat who's in line to become the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next year, promises any potential investigation into Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's emails won't be like the "spectacle" Republicans led in the Clinton email probe.
The Oversight committee has jurisdiction over records and transparency laws, and Cummings helped write an update to the Presidential and Federal Records Acts that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014. That measure mandates that every federal employee, including the President, forward any message about official business sent using a private account to the employee's official email account within 20 days. "We launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials' use of private email accounts for official business, but the White House never gave us the information we requested," Cummings, D-Md., noted. "We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration. My goal is to prevent this from happening again -- not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton. My main priority as Chairman will be to focus on the issues that impact Americans in their everyday lives."
The Oversight committee has jurisdiction over records and transparency laws, and Cummings helped write an update to the Presidential and Federal Records Acts that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014. That measure mandates that every federal employee, including the President, forward any message about official business sent using a private account to the employee's official email account within 20 days. "We launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials' use of private email accounts for official business, but the White House never gave us the information we requested," Cummings, D-Md., noted. "We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration. My goal is to prevent this from happening again -- not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton. My main priority as Chairman will be to focus on the issues that impact Americans in their everyday lives."
By that do you mean that it would be perfectly fair for Ivanka to argue "what, at this point, does it matter?" Or maybe that it would be fair of the FBI to recommend against charges (despite admitting that a crime was committed) like they did with Hillary?
That would be fair.
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Good to know that Democrats now care about this issue. Too bad there's poor equivalency between the President's daughter using personal email and the Secretary of State running a server out of her basement with the obvious intent to keep email off the record (as evidenced by the Secretary destroying said emails).
Yep. She should take one for the team and say that she'll go to jail as long as Hilary goes first.
Why is it at least 1/3rd of the stories on this site are basically just ORANGE MAN BAD. It's fucking exhausting.
Agreed - the only legitimate way to reconcile this is for both parties to admit to manipulating the system for their own gain, and to the detriment of the American People.
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Everyone keeps comparing this to what Hillary did. Not sure why.
She was using a non-government account for government business. Hillary set us her own email sever in an unoccupied house and transferred classified information on to it.
These things are not comparable.
I don't think either is a big deal, but as for the FBI each situation may be different so they should investigate both. They didn't find an issue with Clinton's use, but that doesn't mean the Ivanka scenario is the same.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Usually... yes, however the statutes Hillary violated has no mens rea requirement: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
So nice of you to try to move the goal posts.
What's next? Screams of "but they weren't classified at the time"?
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and go after him for violations of the emoluments clause. Then we can worry about little things like this. I don't want political theater designed to keep Clinton Democrats busy, I want the rule of law restored.
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The legal system doesn't work like that.
No shit, Sherlock.
The prove of your guilt is not contingent upon the prove or lack of such of somebody else's guilt.
Technically you're right, but in the real world there's this thing called precedent, and the precedent has already been set during Hilary's investigation.
Are you being willfully ignorant because ORANGE MAN BAD or are you just trying to be a jerk?
Maybe two, maybe three. One is at a runoff. But the Democrats won the majority of seats up for grabs this year.
They were expected to win more than they did.
But it doesn't seem to matter. They already put whomever on the court.
No, the Republicans put carefully considered and middle of the road SC candidates forward - because they thought it mattered and were expecting rational debate. Now they know none of that is true so expect the next candidate to really be a far right option, thanks to what the Democrats did to the very middle of the road candidates the Republicans offered. That is why what the Democrats did was tactically insane.
You also don't seem to understand that the whole House stands for election
I don't think you understand what *I* am saying relies on exactly that point. After two years of utter Democratic lunacy on open display what do you think will happen to the whole House? It will be savage, absolutely savage for the Democrats next election if they do even just the things they are promising to do.
You mean, aside from pass laws. Yeah, they can fuck up the judiciary, but other than that they're pretty unable to effect change.
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Trump just isn't a stunning genius. His skill is media manipulation and flooding the zone
As they say, in the land of the blind... and Trump is in the land of politicians.
But Trump doesn't have to be a genius for any of what I say to come to pass. The Democrats just have to be complete idiots, which they have managed to show they can in fact hold to for years in a row now, with only acceleration along that vector evident. They appear to have zero sense of what effective long term tactics would be.
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