Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to communicate with government officials in February when she had an informal White House role, it was revealed Monday.
The news comes a day after her it came to light that her husband, Jared Kushner, used a personal email account to conduct White House business – notwithstanding his father-in-law’s withering criticism of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private home email server during the campaign.
Both Trump relatives are key White House advisors who accepted unpaid roles in the administration.
DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT: vanka Trump used a personal email account to communicate with government officials in February when she had an informal White House role, it was revealed Monday
In Ivanka Trump’s case, she communicated with Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon using the private account on Feb. 28th, the Newsweek reported, citing the nonprofit American Oversight.
The emails revolved around her ‘women’s entrepreneurship’ agenda, which the first daughter has made central to her role.
She requested that McMahon – a major Trump donor and former World Wrestling Entertainment executive – to help ‘explore opportunities to collaborate’ on ‘women’s entrepreneurship’ issues.
She went by the name ‘Ivanka Kushner’ instead of Ivanka Trump in the email.
The online activity came before she officially became an unpaid federal government employee, subject to restrictions on her activities.
CHECK YOUR IN-BOX: Ivanka Trump and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talk before a joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Both members of the power couple used personal email while working in the White House
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump moved to Washington to join the Trump administration after Donald Trump won election
‘Yet again we see that there’s one rule for the Trump family and another for everyone else,’ American Oversight director Austin Evers told the publication.
Kushner used a private account before President Trump took office and continued using it through the summer.
‘Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House,’ his attorney Abbe Lowell said Sunday following a Politico report on his email use. He said they usually happened after someone initiated the exchange by emailing his personal account.
ROLE MODEL: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her husband former President Bill Clinton, concedes the presidential election at the New Yorker Hotel on November 9, 2016 in New York City. Ivanka Trump was revealed to have a personal email account to contact a government official under the name ‘Ivanka Kushner’
A person who reviewed them said they didn’t contain classified information, without revealing how that was determined. Many were news articles being forwarded, according to Lowell.
Donald Trump savaged Clinton during the campaign after it was revealed she conducted all of her State Department business from a private account that experts said could have been vulnerable to intrusion.
He repeatedly railed against ‘Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails,’ and called for her to be prosecuted. FBI Director James Comey ultimately announced a decision not to prosecute Clinton in July 2016.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said to her knowledge Kushner’s private email was used in ‘very limited’ circumstances.
She indicated it was not within typical White House policy. ‘We get instructed on this one pretty regularly,’ she said.
POWER COUPLE: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attend a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House marking the September 11 attacks September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Today marks the 16th anniversary of the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people and wounded another 6,000. Also pictured is Gary Cohn (L), Director of the National Economic Council