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. 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. 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. 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. 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." Ms Trump stopped using her personal address for government correspondence after she was informed that she should not be doing so, the official said. "Trump spent his campaign attacking Hillary Clinton for using a private email account for official business," said a statement from the Democratic National Committee. “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. 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.
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.