Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s eldest daughter and senior adviser, argued Tuesday that there’s no comparison between her use of a private email early in the Trump administration and Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private server and to delete thousands of emails under the Obama administration.
“All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide,” Trump told ABC News in Wilder, Idaho, where she was promoting STEM initiatives and technology in schools alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook. “There’s no equivalency to what my father’s spoken about.”
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President Trump has been highly critical of Clinton’s use of a private email account, and made the scandal a top talking point during his presidential campaign against the former secretary of state.
A report was published this month claiming that Trump had used a personal email account to conduct official government business. The president defended his daughter, and told reporters last week that all the emails she sent have been added to presidential records.
“There is no restriction of using personal email. In fact, we’re instructed that if we receive an email to our personal account that could relate to government work, you simply just forward it to your government account so it can be archived,” Ivanka Trump said.
Last week, Democrat lawmakers said they want to know if Trump had complied with the law in her private email use, saying they plan to continue the investigation of the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act.
Trump says she has “nothing to be concerned about.”
