Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and adviser, has used a personal email account for doing business in the White House, his lawyer confirmed Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Kushner sent and received less than 100 emails from his personal account with his colleagues from the White House, his lawyer Abbe Lowell claimed. Kushner sent those that concerned official business to his email address at the White House, Lowell said.
Lowell issued a statement after Politico published a report that states that Kushner had used the personal account, a revelation that made Democrats drew comparisons to the criticism from Trump and his fellow Republicans of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to handle both official and personal business.
Trump used the investigation of Clinton’s email procedures as a central talking point in the race for the presidency. Trump, together with congressional Republicans and others, like then-FBI Director James Comey, said Clinton was reckless in mingling personal and official business.
“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Lowell said in an email. “Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account.”
“Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account.”
Messages sent to the account were “usually forwarded news articles or political commentary, and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal, rather than his White House, address,” Lowell said. “All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event.”
“All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event.”
After the private email account was revealed it was sharply criticized by the Democrats and veterans of Clinton’s campaign who are still aggravated that Trump and his campaign officials referred to Clinton as a criminal over the investigation into her email use.
“Lock him up?” wrote Jesse Ferguson, formerly a Clinton campaign senior spokesman, on Twitter—a reference to the “Lock her up!” chants that were hallmarks of Trump’s campaign rallies.
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