A House committee started a bipartisan inquiry into Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s private email accounts. Republicans dropped it before the truth could be discovered.
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Republicans in Congress were alerted to Ivanka Trump’s improper use of private email for government business over a year ago — but they failed to conduct a proper investigation or subpoena the White House over it.
A bombshell Washington Post report revealed Monday that Ivanka Trump has used a private email account to send hundreds of messages to government officials since December of 2016. The practice may be in violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires government business to be conducted over official accounts so the information can be preserved.
What’s more, the Post reported, the Trump White House knew about this behavior — and tried to shield Ivanka Trump from scrutiny by attributing the account to her husband, Jared Kushner, to avoid the scandal of Trump’s daughter doing the same thing that Trump spent his entire campaign demonizing Hillary Clinton for.
View the complete November 20 article by Oliver Willis on the ShareBlue.com website here.