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, Fox News informed.
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.
Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, also had a private email account on the domain “ijkfamily.com,” according to the report. While Trump and Kushner had a private domain name — essentially affording them a personalized dot-com email address on the Internet — they reportedly did not maintain their own server hardware to physically store the emails sent to it.
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.
An FBI probe found that, contrary to Clinton’s repeated assertions during her run for president, the former secretary of state during the Obama administration had in fact sent classified materials using a private server she established to handle virtually all of her government business. A total of 22 of the emails Clinton held on her private server contained top secret information, and nearly 2,100 contained some form of classified information.
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