Ivanka Trump Repeatedly Used Personal Email at White House, Review Finds
Ivanka
Trump repeatedly used a personal email account to conduct government
business in 2017, a White House review found, a fact that raises the
stakes on congressional oversight hearings that the new Democratic House
majority will hold.
Ms. Trump’s
email use, much of which first came to light last year, included
exchanges on her personal account with cabinet secretaries, as well as
forwards of schedules to her assistant, a person familiar with the
emails said.
Democrats will be in control of at least 232 seats when the new House is sworn in next year, according to The New York Times’s latest count.
And the personal email use of Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner,
who both serve as senior advisers to the president, has been expected
to be among the topics the new leaders will address.
The
subject has particular irony for Democrats, who bitterly point to
President Trump highlighting during the 2016 presidential campaign
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary
of state. At rally after rally, Mr. Trump discussed her server, buoyed
by chants of “Lock her up!” from his crowds.
The
server was discovered amid a congressional inquiry related to Mrs.
Clinton in 2015. The F.B.I. investigated her use of the server — which
included sending emails that were classified — but declined in July 2016 to press charges.
“Oh Ivanka,” Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman, Nick Merrill, posted on Twitter on Monday evening.
The Washington Post first reported
on the scope of Ms. Trump’s email use, saying on Monday that there were
up to 100 related to government business, but hundreds of others
related to schedules.
The New York Times reported in September 2017
that Ms. Trump, Mr. Trump’s eldest daughter, was one of at least six
White House advisers using private emails in the early days of the Trump
administration. Newsweek, that same month, reported specifically
on Ms. Trump’s email use, saying that it was mostly before she formally
joined the administration, and that she “occasionally” did so after she
was sworn in as a senior adviser.
A
White House spokeswoman referred calls to Ms. Trump’s private lawyer,
Abbe D. Lowell, who did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment.
A
spokesman for Mr. Lowell confirmed again that Ms. Trump had used
personal email for a time before she transitioned into government.
“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,” the spokesman, Peter
Mirijanian, said in a statement. “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.”
Ms. Trump had told people in the White House that she was unaware of the rules when she was using her personal account.
But
her repeated used of her personal email on a private address,
ijkfamily.com, which was set up by Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump during the
transition, was a cause for concern within the White House counsel’s
office, according to two people familiar with what took place.
The liberal watchdog group American Oversight said on its website
that its freedom of information requests had led to the discovery of
the volume of Ms. Trump’s email use. The emails obtained by American
Oversight showed exchanges with the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and
other top personnel at agencies.
“The
president’s family is not above the law, and there are serious
questions that Congress should immediately investigate,” Austin Evers,
the group’s executive director, said in a statement on the website.
After
Ms. Trump’s personal email use was discovered, Mr. Lowell helped sort
out what emails qualified as official records that needed to be kept for
posterity, The Post reported.
That was similar to the approach Mrs. Clinton used when she was sorting through tens of thousands of emails.
Mr. Evers questioned whether Ms. Trump had turned over everything.
“When
we went to court last year, we expected to find the president’s
daughter had an unusual role in the White House,” he said, “but we
didn’t anticipate this kind of extensive use of a personal email server
or the panicked damage control effort that unfolded after we started
asking questions.”
Ms. Trump’s allies
have stressed that the volume of emails she sent from her personal
account that related to government work was relatively small.
Still,
current and former White House officials have said it was
characteristic of a repeated blurring of the lines between her
government work and other aspects of her life, which used to include her
namesake licensing and apparel businesses.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Ivanka Trump May Be Facing New Scrutiny Of Email Use.
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