Column About Jared Kushner's email problem... (McManus/LATimes)
By Doyle McManus
Will Democrats soon be chanting “lock them up?”
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and close advisor, disclosed through his lawyer on Sunday that he has been using personal e-mail for government business. He’s not the only one. Kushner’s emails were on a private server he shares with his wife, Ivanka Trump; she’s on the White House staff, too. Trump’s first White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, economic advisor Gary Cohn, policy aide Stephen Miller and former advisor Stephen Bannon have all used private email for official work as well. And there may be more.
Wait: Isn’t that what Hillary Clinton did, hobbling her presidential campaign? Pretty much — and Trump’s still campaigning on it. Only last month, complaining about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, he said: “What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.”
During the campaign, Trump and his allies insisted that Clinton’s use of a private email server was evidence that she was hiding something illicit. Now it turns out the First Family has a personal server, too. In New York, where Trump and Kushner grew up, there’s a word for that: chutzpah.
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