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factfinder_77

(841 posts)
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:42 PM Sep 2017

IVANKA TRUMP USED A PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR GOVERNMENT WORK: EXCLUSIVE

Source: Newsweek

Ivanka Trump, the first daughter and adviser to the president, used a personal email address to communicate with a government official after her father took office, according to documents that the nonprofit American Oversight obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and shared exclusively with Newsweek.

The documents show that on February 28, Trump—identifying herself as Ivanka Kushner—emailed Linda McMahon, the administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, from a personal domain. At the time, Trump was operating inside the White House in a nonofficial capacity. She wrote that she wanted McMahon’s agency and her staff to “explore opportunities to collaborate” on issues related to “women’s entrepreneurship.” She copied on the correspondence the government email addresses of two other federal employees, Dina Powell and Julie Radford.

“Yet again we see that there’s one rule for the Trump family and another for everyone else,” Austin Evers, the executive director of American Oversight and a former senior counsel at the Department of State, said in a statement to Newsweek. “It’s simply breathtaking that both Ivanka and Jared Kushner would conduct government [work] on a personal email account after running a campaign centered on that very issue. The fact that they would brazenly ignore rules governing email use raises even more questions about their judgement and fitness to hold positions in the White House.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-personal-email-account-white-house-670700

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IVANKA TRUMP USED A PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR GOVERNMENT WORK: EXCLUSIVE (Original Post) factfinder_77 Sep 2017 OP
Lock her up! SunSeeker Sep 2017 #1
Lock her up!! demigoddess Sep 2017 #2
LOCK HER UP nycbos Sep 2017 #3
LOCK HER UP!! Dave Starsky Sep 2017 #4
At the very least, she should resign immediately... kentuck Sep 2017 #5
No we need 25 Senate hearings first FakeNoose Sep 2017 #14
SHOCKED! I am SHOCKED! rurallib Sep 2017 #6
But - but - Scarsdale Sep 2017 #39
IOKIYAR NewJeffCT Sep 2017 #7
YES, OMG YES! eom LittleGirl Sep 2017 #21
ALWAYS THIS... yuiyoshida Sep 2017 #28
+1 dalton99a Sep 2017 #33
But her emails..... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2017 #8
Fuck all these people... Seriously Blue_Tires Sep 2017 #9
LOCK HER UP. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2017 #10
I'm sure that must be incorrect TimeToGo Sep 2017 #11
Keep looking, folks... jmowreader Sep 2017 #12
LOCK HER UP!!! Lil Missy Sep 2017 #13
LOCK HER UP....................... turbinetree Sep 2017 #15
What To Do? colsohlibgal Sep 2017 #16
Waiting, waiting, till it gets to Donald sr. Madam45for2923 Sep 2017 #17
Well, now...isn't that interesting? nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #18
Lock her up! Achilleaze Sep 2017 #19
LOCK HER UP!!!! LOCK HER UP!!!! Bengus81 Sep 2017 #20
I'm curious to know what server she and Jared use. Trump or Kushner corporations??? Vinca Sep 2017 #22
Lock them ALL up. (n/t) B Stieg Sep 2017 #23
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2017 #24
Something I learned today: Saviolo Sep 2017 #25
Oh, no!! Scarsdale Sep 2017 #40
hypocritical much? yuiyoshida Sep 2017 #26
She does government work, I thought it was against the law doc03 Sep 2017 #27
Crooked Ivanka CatMor Sep 2017 #29
Good thing the MAGArs have all those "Lock Her Up!" signs ... eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #30
LOCK HER UP! trof Sep 2017 #31
But but but Hillary's emails! kimbutgar Sep 2017 #32
LOCK HER UP!!! StarryNite Sep 2017 #34
Do those asshat NEO CONS one better--- LOCK THEM UP!! LOCK THEM UP!! Bengus81 Sep 2017 #35
Design smart prison collection Ivanka!!! Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2017 #36
She will need time Scarsdale Sep 2017 #41
ewww. bet a zillion she'll be in the fanciest low security place in the country or Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2017 #42
Silly -- rules are for little people Hekate Sep 2017 #37
She did work? treestar Sep 2017 #38
OMG! SHOCKED!!! raven mad Sep 2017 #43

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
5. At the very least, she should resign immediately...
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:58 PM
Sep 2017

....after they ran Hillary to the ground, and then this!

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
6. SHOCKED! I am SHOCKED!
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:58 PM
Sep 2017

how could she think she could ever get away with this with the Republicans so dead set on stopping this?

Didn't she see what they did to Hillary Clinton? Did she think she could do the same thing and not get caught?

Can we expect Fox and the other corporate whores like Mornin' Joey to just haunt her?

IT'S THE EMAILS! IT'S THE EMAILS!

I kill me!

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
39. But - but -
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 06:05 AM
Sep 2017

she is Princess Ivanka, with vast knowledge and experience in government affairs. She dispenses advice to women on working and raising children, two other subjects she knows very little about. The nannies take care of the kids, and "work" for her is not the same as for most women. Most of her day seems to be spent getting made up, hair fixed, shopping for clothing to WOW anyone her daddy is meeting with in the WH. She really should go home, raise her own kids before they get too attached to their nannies. I read that her husband has already deleted texts that he claimed were "personal" not related to his position. What a bungled up group of unqualified dolts we have in the WH.

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
7. IOKIYAR
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:59 PM
Sep 2017

It's OK If You're A Republican.

Use personal email for government business - OK if you're Ivanka, Jared, Colin Powell, etc. Treasonous security breach if you're a Democrat, especially Clinton.

patronize hookers - OK if you're a Republican, career ending if you're Eliot Spitzer

corruption - OK if you're Trump and his family; give speech on Wall Street - huge corruption issue for any democrat.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
9. Fuck all these people... Seriously
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:02 PM
Sep 2017

Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING they screeched for months and months about what horrible things Hillary would do if elected, they've been doing themselves and worse the whole time....

TimeToGo

(1,366 posts)
11. I'm sure that must be incorrect
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:05 PM
Sep 2017

After all, it is a criminal offense and the most important crime in the world. And they clearly know that since they based a lot of their campaign on that So, it must be just an innocent mistake -- nothing to see here.

jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
12. Keep looking, folks...
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:07 PM
Sep 2017

You realize that we are going to, eventually, find out Donald Trump (the one who lost the election by 3 million votes and moved into the White House anyway, not his idiot bastard son) is using personal email accounts on a private server to conduct official business.

On edit: And when that happens, EVERYONE here needs to pick out a right-wing newspaper in a red area they don't live in, and send a letter to the editor.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
19. Lock her up!
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 05:23 PM
Sep 2017

If republicans are going to condemn Democrats, then they damn well better condemn - and hold Congressional hearing - on their own republican scofflaws.

Deplorable.

Saviolo

(3,269 posts)
25. Something I learned today:
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:34 PM
Sep 2017



So, using private email can be a way to get around FOIA, and then the interactions never become part of the public record.

Wonder who the Trump kids are talking to that they don't want us to know about...

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
40. Oh, no!!
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 06:09 AM
Sep 2017

Surely NOT Russians? Beavis already denied any involvement with THEM, after bragging about "The money is flowing in from Russia" before the campaign began. Butthead has not been as vocal.

doc03

(35,148 posts)
27. She does government work, I thought it was against the law
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:36 PM
Sep 2017

for the daughter of a president to do government work?

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
30. Good thing the MAGArs have all those "Lock Her Up!" signs ...
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:42 PM
Sep 2017

oh, wait, those aren't the kinds of people who recycle.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
41. She will need time
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 06:11 AM
Sep 2017

to steal someone else's prison designs. Ivanka will be popular in prison, since she looks exactly like one of those blow-up sex dolls.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
42. ewww. bet a zillion she'll be in the fanciest low security place in the country or
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 02:03 PM
Sep 2017

bribe someone to wear an ankle bracelet in her mansion

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