Ivanka Trump Uses Personal Email to Send Hundreds Of Government Business Reports

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Apparently, Ivanka Trump didn’t learn from Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. The first daughter reportedly broke federal records rules when she allegedly used a personal email account to send a number of emails discussing government business in 2017.

According to The Washington Post, the White House conducted an investigation after emails released by the watchdog group American Oversight revealed that Ivanka who serves as a White House adviser to her father President Donald Trump, sent nearly 100 emails to White House aides, Cabinet members and her personal assistants from the private email account with a domain she shares with her husband Jared Kushner.

As The Post reported, some email conversations included exploring “opportunities to collaborate” with Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon and discussions on “locational/workforce development and K-12 STEM education with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.” 

The others messages were reportedly about scheduling and logistics. Ivanka has since made a statement claiming she wasn’t aware of the rules and that the emails were sent before she was officially a White House employee and given an official White House email.

“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,” Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Abbe Lowell, Ivanka Trump‘s ethics lawyer told The Washington Post.