President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter Tuesday about Time magazine’s Person of the Year issue, which comes out every December.

And he had one answer for who should be Person of the Year: “Trump.”

“I don’t know, that is up to Time magazine,” he said, noting that he had been given the distinction in 2016. “I can’t imagine anybody else other than Trump, can you imagine anybody else other than Trump?”

Trump has had a years-long fascination with Time magazine.

Last year he said he was told he was “probably” going to be given the Person of the Year distinction, but said he opted out because “probably is no good.” The magazine disputed his account, but didn’t give specifics.

In 2016, when he was named the Person of the Year after he won the presidency, he told reporters that it “means a lot,” and that it he considered it a “very, very great honor.”

But he has criticized the magazine’s choices, too: in 2011, when it chose “The Protester,” as the person of the year, and 2012, when Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. made the cover. That same year, Trump said Time had lost all its credibility when it didn’t include him in its Top 100 most influential people.

A fake Time magazine image with Trump on the cover adorned the wall at one of his golf clubs in 2017.

“This cover — dated March 1, 2009 — looks like an impressive memento from Trump’s pre-presidential career,” The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold reported. “But that wasn’t true. The Time cover is a fake. There was no March 1, 2009, issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.”

The Washington Post’s Kristine Phillips contributed to this report.</s>Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, former President Barack Obama, and former First Lady Michelle Obama at the inauguration.

Since he left office, Barack Obama has been careful not to directly comment on Donald Trump or his administration. With the exception of a fiery speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in September, the former president has not named Trump in his critiques of the administration. At the Obama Foundation summit in Chicago on Monday night, Obama went back to his method of taking aim at Trump without ever once uttering his name. But it was a good zinger nonetheless.

While employing the stern “we” used for toddlers in time-out, Obama said that our country’s problems with agriculture, education, sustainable energy, and more were not hard problems to fix, but: “the reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues,” he said, per The Atlantic.

“You literally can remake the world right now, because it badly needs remaking,” he said in his speech, also referencing the failures of the Trump administration.

While plenty of people have taken aim at Trump with jabs at his “small hands,” hair, and other easy targets, Obama stayed highbrow with his comments about the Republican candidate in 2016. He simply warned then that Trump was “temperamentally unfit” for the job. But now it’s 2018, the midterms are over, Democrats took the House, and Trump is still president. It seems Obama is letting loose a little.

Obama would have been one of many to call out Trump’s daddy issue; Fred Trump is said to have dodged millions of dollars in tax payments to funnel money down to his children, and usually gets the credit for being the start of the Trump problem. The “mommy issues” idea, however, is much rarer, though not unfounded. As Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner reported in 1990, his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, a Scottish immigrant, once uttered to Ivana Trump, “What kind of son have I created?”</s>Image copyright Win McNamee/Getty Images Image caption Ms Trump reportedly stopped using her personal email for official work after being told the rules

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of messages discussing official White House business last year, officials confirm.

A review into her emails revealed she had used her private address to contact government officials.

Ms Trump sent the emails before she was briefed on the rules, her lawyer says.

In 2016, her father Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of putting the US "in danger" over her use of a private email while secretary of state.

On Monday, the Washington Post reported that while Ms Trump's emails contained mostly logistical and personal information, some may still have been in violation of federal records rules.

How serious is this?

A Trump administration official told CBS News that Ms Trump's emails did not contain classified information, and what had occurred was basically a lack of understanding of the rules.

Ms Trump stopped using her personal address for government correspondence after she was informed that she should not be doing so, the official said.

However, Austin Evers, from a group called American Oversight, which submitted the freedom of information request that led to the discovery of Ms Trump's use of personal email last year, said the "president's family is not above the law".

"There are serious questions that Congress should immediately investigate," Mr Evers said in a statement.

"Did Ivanka Trump turn over all of her emails for preservation as required by law? Was she sending classified information over a private system?" he added.

Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ms Trump's counsel Abbe Lowell, said in a statement to US media: "Ms Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family."

He added that Ms Trump did not create a private server and never transmitted any classified information.

"The account was never transferred or housed at Trump Organization, no emails were ever deleted, and the emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules."

What did Trump say about Clinton's emails?

During his presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump said that Mrs Clinton's use of a private server to send official emails while in her post as secretary of state in 2009 was a scandal "bigger than Watergate".

He repeatedly criticised her conduct, calling her actions "illegal" and a threat to the security of the US.

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At the time of his campaign, Mr Trump frequently encouraged crowds at rallies to chant "lock her up" and threatened to imprison Mrs Clinton over the saga.

He also called on Russia to help locate some 30,000 emails that Mrs Clinton had not turned over to investigators after she, or her lawyers, determined it was unnecessary as they were personal messages.

What was the Clinton email saga all about?

Before becoming secretary of state, Mrs Clinton set up an email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, that she used for all work and personal emails during her four years in office.

She did not use, or even activate, a state.gov email account, which would have been hosted on servers owned and managed by the US government.

She said it was for convenience.

An FBI investigation concluded that Mrs Clinton should not face charges, but said she and her aides had been "extremely careless" in their handling of classified information.

Are private emails illegal?

It is not illegal for White House officials to use personal email accounts for government business.

However, under the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act, government officials must forward any official correspondence to a work account within 20 days for preservation.

If this is not done reliably, the use of private accounts can put official records beyond the reach of journalists, lawmakers and others who seek publicly available information.

There are also rules against sharing classified or privileged information on personal email accounts.</s>WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump defended daughter Ivanka's use of private emails on Tuesday, claiming her practices differed from those of 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton.

"There was no hiding, there was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did," Trump told reporters at the White House.

Congressional Democrats said they see no difference, and that Ivanka Trump's private emails should be investigated to see if she is mixing public business with private business interests.

"It raises the issue of whether there has been anything improper," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaking on CNN.

White House officials learned that Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of messages to government officials on her personal account while gathering documents to respond to a public records lawsuit, The Washington Post reported.

Speaking to reporters while en route to a Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump said his daughter's private messages are still part of the presidential records, and that Clinton was secretary or State while his daughter is a White House adviser.

"They weren’t classified like Hillary Clinton," Trump said. "They weren't deleted like Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33,000. She wasn't doing anything to hide her emails."

Asked if he would allow congressional Democrats to interview his daughter about private emails, Trump said: “Ivanka can take care of herself.”

A spokesman for Trump’s attorney, Peter Mirijanian, said Ivanka Trump “sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family."

More: Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of messages from personal email account, according to report

She used private email “until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others," the spokesman said.

A number of Democrats pointed out Trump made Clinton's private emails a major theme in the 2016 presidential election.

"Trump spent his campaign attacking Hillary Clinton for using a private email account for official business," said a statement from the Democratic National Committee. "Now, we’ve learned that Ivanka Trump used similar email practices. The hypocrisy could not be clearer."

Democrats will be in a position to probe private email use by Ivanka Trump – and perhaps other officials – when they take control of the U.S. House early next year.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sought to investigate private email use by Trump administration officials last year, "but the White House never gave us the information we requested,” said U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, the committee's top Democrat.

“We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration," Cummings said.

His daughter's emails were one of several topics Trump spoke about on Tuesday:

– People should not worry about U.S. troops who have to spend the holiday on the border: "Don't worry about the Thanksgiving. These are tough people ... they are so proud to be representing our country."

– He has finished his written answers to Russia special counsel Robert Mueller, and "the lawyers have them," and "I assume they'll turn them in today or soon.”

Again denying he colluded with Russians who sought to influence the 2016 election, Trump again protested what he called "the witch hunt that's been going on forever."

– Pledged to someday visit U.S. troops in a "war zone," but did not specify which one.

– Attacked judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the west coast for ruling against his administration in many immigration cases.</s>On a day when the President of the United States effectively washed his hands of Saudi Arabia’s brutal murder of the journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi , it may seem a bit tendentious to focus on his daughter’s e-mail habits, but bear with me. Although there is no moral comparison between Donald Trump’s disgraceful toadying up to the Saudi royal family and Ivanka Trump’s decision to use a private e-mail address for official government business, they are indicative of a common attribute of the Trump family: overweening entitlement and hubris.

Since the night of the 2016 election, Trump has interpreted his unlikely victory in the electoral college as a mandate to do pretty much whatever he wants to do, including refusing to sell his business holdings or place them in a blind trust, and appointing his daughter and son-in-law to senior—if vague—positions at the White House. In a country that long exalted austere Presidents who viewed the Presidency as solemn public service, Trump crowed openly when he discovered that many of the federal ethics statutes didn’t apply to him. He and his sons, who still run the Trump business empire, have regularly used the Presidency to promote Trump properties, such as the Trump International Hotel in Washington, the Mar-a-Lago resort, in Palm Beach, and several of Trump’s golf clubs.

Trump behaves as he does because he is a bad man, but also because he has internalized, over the course of his career, an important lesson: the bigger the effrontery, the more likely you are to get away with it. (It’s the conman’s version of Goebbels’ “Big Lie” principle.) Thanks to the New York Times, we now know that the family real-estate fortune that he inherited was enlarged by years of systematic tax evasion. As a developer and self-promoter in his own right, he parlayed a largely disastrous record—bankruptcies, restructurings, bank bailouts—into a lucrative second career as a television celebrity and manager of the Trump brand. When he turned to politics, he bluffed his way to the Oval Office by exploiting mountains of free media, mercilessly attacking his opponents, and pulling an inside straight that ran through Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Neither his blanket refusal to release his tax returns nor the unearthing of the “Access Hollywood” tape halted his progress. So it is little wonder he doesn’t adhere to norms—whether they apply to his business empire or the conduct of the Presidency. In Trump’s mind, only saps play by the rules.

Unlike her father, Ivanka Trump at least pays lip service to the First Amendment. (“I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people,” she told Axios’s Mike Allen this summer.) But the First Daughter, as she has become known, appears to have inherited the family disregard for other rules and regulations, as well as its cavalier attitude to the truth.

In October of last year, The New Yorker, ProPublica, and WNYC published a report revealing how, in 2012, Ivanka and her brother Donald Jr. narrowly avoided being indicted by New York prosecutors on charges of fraudulently misleading the buyers of condos in the Trump SoHo hotel about how well sales were going. In an e-mail obtained by investigators, the “Trumps discussed how to coördinate false information they had given to prospective buyers,” the story said. “In another, according to a person who read the e-mails, they worried that a reporter might be on to them.”

Was that incident a one-off? In 2009, Ivanka said in an interview that a Trump-branded property in Toronto was virtually sold out. In reality, “24.8 percent of units had sold, according to a 2016 bankruptcy filing by the developers,” a second report from ProPublica and WNYC revealed. In Panama, the Trumps lent their name and marketing expertise—for a hefty fee—to a seventy-story waterfront development that opened in 2011. During the financing of the project, the report from ProPublica and WNYC said, “Ivanka told a journalist . . .that ‘over 90 percent’ of the Panama units had sold — and at prices five times as high as comparable buildings. Both statements were untrue."

If you ignore the political context, one could argue that the Washington Post’s revelation that Ivanka “sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules” doesn’t amount to much. But, of course, the context cannot be ignored. For two years, Ivanka’s father traipsed around the country claiming that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, when she was Secretary of State, was “bigger than Watergate.” Even today, he salutes the crowds at his rallies as they chant, “Lock her up.”

The Post story said that when White House official asked her about her use of a private account, “She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules.” In a statement, her spokesperson claimed that, unlike Clinton, Ivanka didn’t set up a private e-mail server, or delete any of the messages that she sent from a private account. The statement added that the “emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules.” Speaking with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Trump himself repeated some of these talking points. “There was no server in the basement like Hillary Clinton had,” he said. “You were talking about a whole different, you’re talking about fake news.”

Actually, it still isn’t entirely clear what e-mail arrangements Ivanka used. The Post story, citing people close to her, said of her and her husband: “The couple’s emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft.” Presumably, that is one of the details that Representative Elijah Cummings and his Democratic colleagues will be examining when they take control of the House Oversight Committee. “We launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials’ use of private email accounts for official business, but the White House never gave us the information we requested,” Cummings said on Tuesday. “We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration.”

You can hardly blame the Democrats for picking up a gift that has been tossed into their laps, but the main point here isn’t about record-keeping. It is about the hypocrisy, arrogance, and hubris of a family that has sought to turn the Presidency into another Trump franchise. “Certainly, I think it’s hypocritical,” Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly in the Trump White House, said on CNN. “You can’t do that in that position.” Unless, of course, you think that you are bulletproof, and you don’t really give a damn what people think.</s>WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of e-mails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.

White House ethics officials learned of Ms Trump's repeated use of personal e-mail when reviewing e-mails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit.

That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.

The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter's practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. Mr Trump attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her "Crooked Hillary" for using a personal email account as secretary of state.

Some aides were startled by the volume of Ms Trump's personal emails - and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. Ms Trump said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.

The White House referred requests for comment to Ms Trump's attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell.

In a statement, Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Lowell, acknowledged that the president's daughter occasionally used her private e-mail before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information.

"While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," he said in a statement.

Mirijanian said Ms Trump turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records.

And he stressed that her email use was different than that of Clinton, who had a private email server in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton's emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation.

"Ms Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no e-mails were ever deleted," Mirijanian said.

Like Ms Trump, Mrs Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Mrs Clinton relied solely on a private e-mail system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely.

Both Ms Trump and Mrs Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private e-mails and determine which messages should be retained as government records.

Mrs Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were "marked classified."

The FBI later determined that 110 e-mails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.

Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Mr Trump's daughter did not know that government officials should not use private e-mails for official business.

"There's the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign," Evers said.

"There is no reasonable suggestion that she didn't know better. Clearly everyone joining the Trump administration should have been on high alert about personal email use."

Ms Trump and her husband set up personal emails with the domain "ijkfamily.com" through a Microsoft system in December 2016, as they were preparing to move to Washington so Mr Kushner could join the White House, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

The couple's emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft, the people said.

Ms Trump used her personal account to discuss government policies and official business less than 100 times - often replying to other administration officials who contacted her through her private e-mail, according to people familiar with the review.

Another category of less-substantive e-mails may have also violated the records law: hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house, they said.

People close to Ms Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staff about prohibited use of private e-mail, according to people familiar with the situation.

Using personal e-mails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations.

Revelations about Mrs Clinton's personal e-mail system led to an FBI investigation of whether she had mishandled classified information.

The scandal shadowed Mrs Clinton throughout the 2016 White House race, culminating in then-FBI Director James B. Comey's controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his conclusion that she had been reckless with government secrets but that there was not sufficient evidence she had intended to skirt the law.

During the campaign, Donald Trump said the Democratic nominee's "corruption is on a scale we have never seen before" and called her personal email use "bigger than Watergate." Trump supporters still chant "Lock her up!" at his rallies, and the president, nearly two years into his administration, continues to tweet about Clinton's emails."Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD," he tweeted in August, referring to a Fox News story about claims that the bureau did not scrutinise all her emails.

"Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!" Ivanka Trump first used her personal e-mail to contact Cabinet officials in early 2017, before she joined the White House as an unpaid senior adviser, according to emails obtained by American Oversight.

In late February 2017, she used her personal e-mail to contact Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon and propose they meet to explore "opportunities to collaborate."

The following month, she emailed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, suggesting that their staffers meet to discuss ways to collaborate on "locational/workforce development and k-12 STEM education."

While her messages were largely about government work, Ms Trump was not then subject to White House records rules.

When she joined the White House on March 30, Ms Trump pledged to comply "with all ethics rules," responding to complaints that her voluntary role gave her all of the access and perks of the White House - but none of the legal responsibilities or constraints."Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role," she said in a statement at the time.

But Ms Trump continued to occasionally use her personal e-mail in her official capacity, according to people familiar with the review.

Her husband Jared Kushner's use of personal e-mail for government work drew intense scrutiny when it was first reported by Politico last fall. The revelation prompted demands from congressional investigators that Kushner preserve his records, which his attorney said he had.

But Ms Trump had used her personal e-mail for official business far more frequently, according to people familiar with the administration's review - a fact that remained a closely held secret inside the White House.

"She was the worst offender in the White House," said a former senior U.S. government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal dynamics.

After discovering the extent of her email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell, Ms Trump's attorney, to help review her personal emails to determine which were personal and which were official business, according to the people.

The White House Counsel's Office did not have access to her personal account and could not review it without invading her privacy and possibly violating privileged communications with her attorneys, people familiar with the review said.

After his review, Lowell forwarded emails that he had determined were related to official business to Ms Trump's government account, a move he viewed as rectifying any violations of the records law, they said.

Lowell's review found less than 1,000 personal e-mails in which Ms Trump shared her official schedule and travel plans with herself and her personal assistants, according to two people familiar with the review.

Separately, there were less than 100 e-mails in which Ms Trump used her personal account to discuss official business with other administration officials.

The scope of her personal e-mail use had not emerged in response to American Oversight's records request, which sought Trump's correspondence with Cabinet agencies in early 2017. Most internal White House communications are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

"I'm disappointed - although not entirely surprised - that this administration disregarded clear laws that they more than anyone should have been aware of," Evers said.

In many cases, government officials contacted Ms Trump first at her personal e-mail address. That was the case with a note she received in April 2017 from Treasury official Dan Kowalski, who was seeking to set up a meeting between the president and the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international economic group of which the United States is a member.

"I apologise for reaching out to you on your personal e-mail for this, but it is the only email I have for you," he wrote, according to an email obtained by American Oversight.

"For future reference my WH email is (redacted)," Ms Trump replied. "Thanks for reaching out and making this introduction."

But other times, Ms Trump used her private e-mail to initiate official business.

In April 2017, she used her personal email to write to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's chief of staff, Eli Miller, suggesting that he connect with her chief of staff, Julie Radford.

The e-mail chain, obtained by American Oversight, was copied to Radford's government account.

"It would be great if you both could connect next week to discuss (redacted)," she wrote. "We would love your feedback and input as we structure."</s>The daughter of US President Donald Trump, and his senior advisor, Ivanka Trump has used a personal e-mail account to send hundreds of mails to her assistants.

According to the Washington Post, many of them in "violation of federal records rules" people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence said.

Ethics officials learned of her repeated use of personal e-mail when reviewing e-mails gathered by five Cabinet agencies, to respond to a public records lawsuit last autumn.

That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she discussed or relayed official White House business using a private e-mail account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.

The US Presidential Records Act requires all official White House communications and records be preserved.

It comes after Mr Trump repeatedly criticised his then-rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign for her use of private e-mail servers.

He attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her 'Crooked Hillary' for using a personal e-mail account as US Secretary of State.

US President Donald Trump and advisor Ivanka Trump at The White House in Washington, DC | Image: Chris Kleponis/DPA/PA Images

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN he believes the move is "hypocritical".

"Well, certainly I think it's hypocritical. I think even Ivanka, if she was interviewed about, she'd have to say it was a mistake.

"You can't do that in that position.

"There had to be a reason why she was doing that. The same thing I would say about Secretary Clinton.

"I think it's a serious matter. I'm not making light of it."

Last September, it was revealed that Trump's son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner had used private e-mail to "corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters".

A lawyer for Mr Kushner said at the time: "Fewer than 100 e-mails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal e-mail 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."</s>WASHINGTON – Ivanka Trump last year often used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released Monday by nonpartisan watchdog group.

According to emails released by American Oversight, Trump used her personal account through much of 2017 to email Cabinet officials, White House aides and her assistants. The Presidential Records Act requires all official White House communications and records be preserved.

The Washington Post was first to report on the emails. The White House had no comment on Ivanka Trump’s email practices.

Trump’s usage of a private email account will bring comparisons to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose usage of a private email server instead of a government email account during her time in office was a central part of President Donald Trump’s campaign against her in 2016. Trump’s supporters often chanted — and still do on, on occasion — “Lock her up!” at the mention of Clinton, and President Trump has frequently accused Clinton of receiving special treatment because she was not charged for skirting the Presidential Records Act with her email practices.

Peter Mirijanian, the spokesperson for Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, said in a statement, “Like most people, before entering into government service, Ms. Trump used a private email. When she entered the government, she was given a government email account for official use. While transitioning into government, until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family.”

Some advisers to President Donald Trump were alarmed when they heard this news, the Post reports, because of the similarities to Clinton’s email use. Trump has called Clinton “Crooked Hillary” for using a personal email account when she was secretary of state.

Mirijanian sought to draw a specific contrast between Ivanka Trump’s personal email usage and Clinton’s, by noting that she did not have the server set up in her home or office.

“To address misinformation being peddled about Ms. Trump’s personal email, she did not create a private server in her house or office, there was never classified information transmitted, the account was never transferred or housed at Trump Organization, no emails were ever deleted, and the emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules,” Mirijanian’s statement continues.

White House officials were first made aware of Ivanka Trump’s email usage through American Oversight’s lawsuit.</s>White House advisor and first daughter Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of messages to government officials last year, according to a report published Monday in the Washington Post.

Many of the messages were allegedly sent in violation of federal records rules, the Post reported, and were uncovered by White House officials reviewing Ivanka Trump’s emails in response to a public records lawsuit.

A spokesman for Abbe Lowell, Trump's ethics counsel said in a statement Monday evening that she only used a private email account while "transitioning" into government.

"Until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," the spokesman, Peter Mirijanian, said.

Mirijanian added that Trump did not "create a private server," nor did she delete or send classified emails — both clear references to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump routinely skewered Clinton’s email practices, saying he’d appoint a special counsel to investigate them and encouraging his supporters to chant “Lock her up.”

Ivanka Trump assumed an official role in the White House on March 30, 2017. The review cited by the Washington Post found that she used a private account for much of the year, sending emails to cabinet officials, White House aides and assistants.

The public records lawsuit cited by The Post was filed by American Oversight, a non-partisan ethics watchdog. In a post published Monday, the group said the emails were obtained after it filed records requests with five agencies on March 31, 2017 — the Departments of Commerce, Education, Labor, Treasury and the Small Business Administration — that sought messages from Ivanka Trump.

When the agencies didn’t provide them, American Oversight sued, according to their posting.

Redacted messages posted to American Oversight’s website showed that Ivanka Trump used an email address with her husband's last name — Kushner — that ended in ".com" to send emails to the Small Business Administration in June 2017. Messages sent later in the year to the Treasury Department also appeared to come from the private "Ivanka Kushner" account, the Oversight website noted.

In some messages, Ivanka Trump acknowledges using a personal account and provides correspondents with her White House address. Other emails were too heavily redacted to determine if the email even came directly from Ivanka Trump, the group said.</s>"Until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," the spokesman, Peter Mirijanian, said.

Mirijanian added that Trump did not "create a private server," nor did she delete or send classified emails — both clear references to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump routinely skewered Clinton's email practices, saying he'd appoint a special counsel to investigate them and encouraging his supporters to chant "Lock her up."

Ivanka Trump assumed an official role in the White House on March 30, 2017. The review cited by the Washington Post found that she used a private account for much of the year, sending emails to cabinet officials, White House aides and assistants.

The public records lawsuit cited by The Post was filed by American Oversight, a non-partisan ethics watchdog. In a post published Monday, the group said the emails were obtained after it filed records requests with five agencies on March 31, 2017 — the Departments of Commerce, Education, Labor, Treasury and the Small Business Administration — that sought messages from Ivanka Trump.

When the agencies didn't provide them, American Oversight sued, according to their posting.

Redacted messages posted to American Oversight's website showed that Ivanka Trump used an email address with her husband's last name — Kushner — that ended in ".com" to send emails to the Small Business Administration in June 2017. Messages sent later in the year to the Treasury Department also appeared to come from the private "Ivanka Kushner" account, the Oversight website noted.

In some messages, Ivanka Trump acknowledges using a personal account and provides correspondents with her White House address. Other emails were too heavily redacted to determine if the email even came directly from Ivanka Trump, the group said.
Ivanka Trump, elder daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, is found to have used a private e-mail account to handle government business e-mails.