Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.
“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email 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.”
Aides who have exchanged emails with Kushner on his private account since President Donald Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel, according to emails described to or shown to POLITICO. In some cases, those White House officials have emailed Kushner’s account first, said people familiar with the messages. At times, Bannon and Priebus have also used private email accounts to correspond with Kushner and others.
Well now I would suggest that this calls for a taxpayer funded, never ending investigation by Congress.
Oh I'm sorry, that only, and I mean ONLY, happens if your name is Hillary Clinton.
You know I have now reached the point of being unshockable.
I think that there is literally nothing I could learn about Donald Trump and his administration that could surprise me in any way.
Vladimir Putin has a secret room of his own in the White House? Yeah, that seems perfectly believable at this point.
Donald Trump and his family are secretly lizard people from some far away planet? Oh yeah, makes sense.
Trump is actually the result of an experiment using Adolf Hitler's DNA to establish an American Fourth Reich? Actually that might be the most believable one of all.
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