Officials in Donald Trump’s White House were told they couldn’t use private email accounts to conduct official business. The National Security Agency also warned White House officials that use of private email accounts created a security threat. What’s more, as regular readers know, one of the reasons Trump’s political operation is in power is that it spent two years telling the public that Hillary Clinton should be incarcerated for having used a private email account.
And yet, here we are.
White House advisor and first daughter Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of messages to government officials last year, according to a report published Monday in the Washington Post.
Many of the messages were allegedly sent in violation of federal records rules, the Post reported, and were uncovered by White House officials reviewing Ivanka Trump’s emails in response to a public records lawsuit.
The Washington Post‘s article added, “Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.”
Perhaps this is one of those rare instances in which a White House official experiences selective amnesia, causing her to forget a period of time known as “all of 2015 and 2016.”
Complicating matters, Ivanka Trump is hardly alone.









