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Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails

  

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Via:  tessylo  •  5 years ago  •  55 comments

Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails

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Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails



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President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been using private email accounts and the messaging service WhatsApp to conduct official government business, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said in a Thursday letter to the White House.

The   use of private email and apps by two presidential advisers could violate   the Presidential Records Act. It also would amount to the same activity that Republicans, led by Trump, campaigned on in 2016 as evidence of Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminality.

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty Images)

In  his letter to the White House , Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the chair of the committee, requested documents and information relating to the Trump White House’s use of nongovernmental channels.

Ivanka Trump, Cummings wrote, “continues to receive emails relating to official business on her personal email account” and “she does not forward emails received through her personal account unless she responds to the email, even if the subject matter of the email relates to her official duties.”


That, Cummings said, violates the Presidential Records Act.

Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, assured Cummings that his client took screenshots on WhatsApp of all government business conducted on the platform, including the times he has used it to communicate with foreign leaders. When asked whether he had used the app — which is prohibited by the White House — to discuss classified information, Cummings said Lowell replied, “That’s above my pay grade.”

Cummings noted that the revelations about Kushner and Trump’s communications had come to light in 2017, but that “new information that raises additional security and federal records concerns” has since been obtained.

Previous attempts by the committee to obtain information on the use of private email have been rebuffed by the White House, setting up the latest battle between the Democratic-controlled body and the president.

“The White House’s failure to provide documents and information is obstructing the committee’s investigation into allegations of violations of federal records laws by White House officials,” Cummings said in his letter.

“If you continue to withhold these documents from the Committee,” Cummings added, “we will be forced to consider alternative means to obtain compliance,” a not-so-veiled allusion to a possible subpoena.

In the final month of the 2016 presidential race, Donald Trump accused Clinton of “willful and deliberate criminal conduct” in her use of private email while serving as secretary of state.





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Tessylo
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1  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been using private email accounts and the messaging service WhatsApp to conduct official government business, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said in a Thursday letter to the White House.

The use of private email and apps by two presidential advisers could violate the Presidential Records Act. It also would amount to the same activity that Republicans, led by Trump, campaigned on in 2016 as evidence of Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminality.

Ivanka Trump, Cummings wrote, “continues to receive emails relating to official business on her personal email account” and “she does not forward emails received through her personal account unless she responds to the email, even if the subject matter of the email relates to her official duties.”

That, Cummings said, violates the Presidential Records Act.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

Cummings noted that the revelations about Kushner and Trump’s communications had come to light in 2017, but that “new information that raises additional security and federal records concerns” has since been obtained.

 
 
 
JBB
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3  JBB    5 years ago

Jared and Ivanka make greedy entitled avaricious hubrists pale in comparison...

 
 
 
luther28
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4  luther28    5 years ago

I would have to ask: Where is Trey Gowdy during all of this, as he almost drove us all crazy not too long ago regarding Hillary's usage of private email.

Wow, this is my third hmmmmmmm of the morning. 

 
 
 
Galen Marvin Ross
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5  Galen Marvin Ross    5 years ago

I have to ask where are all the Right Wing crowd that were yelling "Lock Her Up" over Hillary Clintons email "scandal"? Can we say hypocrisy?

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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5.2  KDMichigan  replied to  Galen Marvin Ross @5    5 years ago
over Hillary Clintons email "scandal"?

That you don't see the difference is totally understandable.

 
 
 
igknorantzrulz
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5.2.1  igknorantzrulz  replied to  KDMichigan @5.2    5 years ago
That you don't see the difference is totally understandable

How many times did Trump and cump go apeshit hogwild over this,

but now,

it's fine...?

Well you not calling bthis shit out

IS NOT FINE, itwas WRONG when she did it, And I believe EVEN WRONGER when they do it, after having seen exactly what was , was not, legal

 
 
 
Texan1211
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5.2.2  Texan1211  replied to  igknorantzrulz @5.2.1    5 years ago

Using your impeccable logic, the people who refused to condemn Hillary and her use of private email an deleting thousands of those emails should sit down and shut the hell up.

 
 
 
Galen Marvin Ross
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5.2.3  Galen Marvin Ross  replied to  KDMichigan @5.2    5 years ago

Please do explain it to us, what is the difference? Is it in the name? “What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.” You defend the Trumps and, the Kushner's and, call the Clintons crooks for doing the same thing. Hmmmm.

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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5.2.4  KDMichigan  replied to  Galen Marvin Ross @5.2.3    5 years ago

So you are in agreement with me that if she is receiving classified documents she needs to be held accountable?

 
 
 
Galen Marvin Ross
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5.2.5  Galen Marvin Ross  replied to  KDMichigan @5.2.4    5 years ago
So you are in agreement with me that if she is receiving classified documents she needs to be held accountable?

Are you in agreement with me that if Ivanka and, Jared are texting secrets on their PERSONAL phones to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia or, anyone that they should be held accountable?

The only documents that were listed as any kind of secret were classified secret AFTER they had been sent to here or, that she had sent to someone else, this was in the report that Comey put out. All you are doing is beating a dead horse, stop, it's embarrassing.

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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5.2.6  KDMichigan  replied to  Galen Marvin Ross @5.2.5    5 years ago

WTF did you even look at what I wrote, 

The only documents that were listed as any kind of secret were classified secret AFTER they had been sent to here

What documents? I didn't know that Ivanka has had her use of private emails investigated? If you are referring to that Hillaryious Hag Hillary.

Some of the emails containing classified information “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information,” contrary to Clinton’s claims that none was marked classified. Comey did not provide a specific number.

Whats embarrassing is someone who is in denial of the facts don't you think?

 
 
 
evilone
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6  evilone    5 years ago

LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! /s

 
 
 
lady in black
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7  lady in black    5 years ago

Lock the scumbag and his family up

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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7.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  lady in black @7    5 years ago

Right after they lock up the Clinton's...jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
igknorantzrulz
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7.1.1  igknorantzrulz  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @7.1    5 years ago

except,

there is NO investigation of the Clintons, only one

that so far has been damn fruitful

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
7.1.2  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  igknorantzrulz @7.1.1    5 years ago

Well that's the beauty of money, power, and influence. You wind up with a Teflon back and all the shit slides right off. jrSmiley_79_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Tessylo
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7.1.3  seeder  Tessylo  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @7.1    5 years ago

For what?

 
 
 
lady in black
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7.1.4  lady in black  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @7.1    5 years ago

Why, are they being investigated, is there a special counsel for them?????  I think not at this time.....

 
 
 
Tessylo
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8  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

'Well that's the beauty of money, power, and influence. You wind up with a Teflon back and all the shit slides right off.' 

All that shit seems to be sliding off the turd, 'president', and Melania's sister wife Ivanka, and that scum husband of hers, wonder how long that will last?

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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8.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Tessylo @8    5 years ago

Did I say anywhere above that it was not?

 
 

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