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Kushner used private email to conduct White House business

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  27 comments

Kushner used private email to conduct White House business

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/24/jared-kushner-private-email-white-house-243071


Kushner used private email to conduct White House business


The senior adviser set up the account after the election. Other West Wing officials have also used private email accounts for official business.

Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.

Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.

“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.”

Aides who have exchanged emails with Kushner on his private account since President Donald Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel, according to emails described to or shown to POLITICO. In some cases, those White House officials have emailed Kushner’s account first, said people familiar with the messages. At times, Bannon and Priebus have also used private email accounts to correspond with Kushner and others.

The decision to set up new, private accounts as Kushner was preparing to enter the White House came in the wake of a bitter election campaign in which Trump routinely excoriated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle government business when she was secretary of state.

There is no indication that Kushner has shared any sensitive or classified material on his private account, or that he relies on his private email account more than his official White House account to conduct government business. Aides say he prefers to call or text over using email.


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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

The good news is that Jared's use of private email isn't suspicious because it's not as if he's tried to communicate on back channels with say ... Russia or anything.

Jared Kushner has used a private email address to conduct government business at the White House, Politico reported Sunday afternoon.

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly and aggressively attacked Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. This new report suggests that Kushner — Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser — may have engaged in similar behavior, using the private email account to write messages about “media coverage, event planning and other subjects.”

Politico reports that it has reviewed two dozen emails involving Kushner’s correspondence. Kushner has used the private account to trade emails with former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and former chief strategist Steve Bannon.

He created the private email just before he went to the White House.

You can't make this stuff up.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1    7 years ago

I guess the the democrats will nominate him for president, if he sent enough classified information.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.1.1  Tessylo  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1    7 years ago

Please site all the classified information that Hillary Clinton leaked.  I'll wait.  Thank you.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.1.3  Tessylo  replied to  Shepboy @1.1.2    7 years ago

That's exactly what I thought.  You got nothing!

 
 
 
Willjay9
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1.1.4  Willjay9  replied to  Shepboy @1.1.2    7 years ago

......Still waiting for you to answer the question!

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.1.5  Tessylo  replied to  Willjay9 @1.1.4    7 years ago

Yeah me too.  

 
 
 
96WS6
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1.1.6  96WS6  replied to  Tessylo @1.1.1    7 years ago

What?   You don't believe your boy Comey?    Come on.  It is common knowledge Hillary sent classified emails.

FBI investigators reviewed the 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department in 2014. The investigation found "a very small number" contained classification markings at the time they were sent.

The State Department confirmed July 6 that it was aware of two emails that were marked confidential,  when they were sent. An aide sent the two emails to Clinton to prepare her for phone calls with foreign leaders, according to the New York Times .  

Here's a thought.  Instead of denying reality, get in touch with it.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.1.7  Tessylo  replied to  96WS6 @1.1.6    7 years ago
"Here's a thought.  Instead of denying reality, get in touch with it."  Yes, please do.  

 
 
 
Willjay9
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1.1.8  Willjay9  replied to  96WS6 @1.1.6    7 years ago

Part of your link

The State Department confirmed July 6 that it was aware of two emails that were marked confidential,  when they were sent. An aide sent the two emails to Clinton to prepare her for phone calls with foreign leaders, according to the New York Times .  

You own link confirms Clinton NEVER SENT classified emails, that they were sent TO HER....so, want to talk about this reality thing again?

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.9  Sean Treacy  replied to  96WS6 @1.1.6    7 years ago

I guess some need a citation to demonstrate there are 7 days in a week also. 

You'd think one of the most reported stories of the last decade would not require a link, but I guess some of our members are simply not well informed. 

 
 
 
96WS6
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1.2  96WS6  replied to  JohnRussell @1    7 years ago

The irony of you posting this is unparalleled.  All of a sudden you are worried about National Security and emails.  LMAO!

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

I guess we'll hear that the liberal media is picking on Jared Kushner.

I believe that it is against the law for someone with an official White House position to use private email to conduct official White House business.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3  Tessylo    7 years ago

Lock him up!

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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3.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Tessylo @3    7 years ago

And take her with him.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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5  Jeremy Retired in NC    7 years ago

At least we know that there won't be any criminal charges.  

 
 

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