At least four other White House advisers used private email addresses, in addition to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to communicate about work-related matters, a report says.
Former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon and former chief of staff Reince Priebus used private email addresses intermittently. Likewise, Gary Cohn, chief economic adviser, and Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser, sent or received several emails via their personal accounts, according to the New York Times.
Earlier this week it was disclosed Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter and White House adviser, along with her husband Kushner, senior adviser to the president, used private email accounts to conduct work-related business.
Kushner sent or received approximately 100 work-related emails during the first seven months of the year. Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump used her private account during the first several months of the administration prior to assuming her current position as a White House adviser.
None of the emails sent from the personal accounts have been made public, and the frequency and content of the emails in undetermined.
White House staff have been reminded not to conduct business from their personal email accounts.
“All White House personnel have been instructed to use official email to conduct all government related work,” Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Monday. “They are further instructed that if they receive work-related communication on personal accounts, they should be forwarded to official email accounts.”
Although officials are supposed to use government email addresses to conduct business, it is not illegal for White House officials to use private accounts, provided they forward work-related messages to their work accounts.
