Trump White House senior staff have private RNC email accounts

[octoberlib]

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.

The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails.


Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.


But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrat’s presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. “They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department,” says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.


http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If a democratic administration did this the entire country would have to shut down,

completely, the administration would be impeached and jailed.

[jmg257]

2. Makes sense they have accounts - Newsweek not sure whether they are using them or not.

"It’s not clear whether or how Trump staffers are using the RNC email addresses."

[LanternWaste]

3. Utilizing a deft sleight-of-hand, the illusionists will tell us not to pay attention to this

Utilizing a deft sleight-of-hand, the illusionists will yell, plead and instruct us not to pay attention to this (for our own good, you see), that it's merely another distraction. That mere mortal man is unable to posses more than one concern simultaneously, and to save our concern for something "that really matters.".

Ignore them when they suggest that particular deflection. They are bacteria, and their suggestions are infectious.