«Breaking News» President Trump defended Ivanka's private email use as 'much different' from Hillary Clinton's

President Donald Trump defended his daughter Ivanka Trump's private email use on Thanksgiving Day, saying it was 'much different' from Hillary Clinton's.

It's 'much different from the other situation I've talked about for a long time,' he said to reporters after calls with U.S. troops for the holiday.

He said Ivanka's use was 'very innocent.'  

'It's another fake news story,' he added. 

'There was no deletion of e-mails like the 33,000 plus probably another 100,000 that Hillary Clinton did after she got a subpoena,' Trump said. 'There was no bleach bit. There was no anything. Just innocent e-mails. No classified e-mails. A much different deal.'

President Donald Trump defended his daughter Ivanka's private email use on Thanksgiving Day 'much different' from Hillary Clinton's

Ivanka Trump joined her father in Mar-a-Lago, riding on Air Force One with her children and accompanied by her sister Tiffany Trump

He also argued his daughter was a privately employed person until she took a job in his administration as an adviser.

'She is a private person and ultimately she transitioned out from private to government. And I believe all of her records are in the historical society, the historical records,' he said.

His defense comes as Democrats' incoming House majority threatened to probe her use of a personal Internet domain to conduct government business – and insisted the case is nothing like Hillary Clinton's infamous private email server.

Trump on Tuesday all but dared House Oversight and Government Reform Democrats, including their top dog Rep. Elijah Cummings, to investigate her.

'Ivanka can handle herself,' Trump told DailyMail.com as he left the White House for the Thanksgiving break, responding to a question about whether he would ever let partisan Democrats interview his elder daughter.  

He said the emails Ms. Trump sent and received on her personal account to conduct government business 'weren't classified like Hillary Clinton. They weren't deleted like Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33 [thousand] – she wasn't doing anything to hide her emails.'

'They're all in presidential records,' he said, confirming that his daughter's lawyer has forwarded the messages from her personal account to her government account. 

President Donald Trump defended his daughter Ivanka on Tuesday as Democrats threaten to probe her use of a personal Internet domain to conduct government business

The president took pains to insist the case is nothing like Hillary Clinton's infamous private email server, and insisted 'Ivanka can take care of herself' if Democrats demand answers from her

In what may have been a slip of the tongue, the president twice referred to phone calls, not emails, when comparing his Ivanka's practices Hillary Clinton's.

'There was no hiding. There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did. There was no servers in the basement like Hillary Clinton had. You're talking about a whole different – you're talking about all fake news ... What it is is a false story,' he said.   

In what may have been a slip of the tongue, the president twice referred to phone calls, not emails, when comparing his daughter's practices with those of his former political nemesis. 

'This was just early on when she came in. These calls were not classified, unlike Hillary Clinton's calls which were classified,' he said. 'And it's all fake news.' 

A White House official who fields reporters' calls about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner did not respond to a request for comment about the discrepancy.

House Oversight Democrats are gearing up to draw Ivanka into an investigation next year.

'We want to know if Ivanka complied with the law,' a Democratic aide told DailyMail.com on Tuesday.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, likely to be led by Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings (left) in 2019, plans to investigate her email use and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (right) said the first daughter's actions should be examined

The president said Ivanka's emails 'weren't classified like Hillary Clinton. They weren't deleted like Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33 [thousand] – she wasn't doing anything to hide her emails'

The panel, likely to be led by Cummings in 2019, plans to revive an investigation into the White House's use of private emails, which can violate federal records-retention laws.

The powerful committee has investigative oversight of the executive branch and the power to subpoena witnesses and documents.  

'We plan to continue our investigation of the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act,' the aide said. 

And Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on Tuesday there 'should be some kind of investigative effort.'

Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would have oversight on an investigation, told CNN the first daughter's actions should be examined.

'There is no way that she had no knowledge of the rules,' he said.

'But really there is a larger story here which is the mixing of public and private as with her clothing brand and her public position, the blending and mixing of e-mails on her private account, her public account. It raises the issue of whether there has been anything improper. There should be some kind of investigative effort,' he noting, adding it should be done 'through the Office of Government Ethics or through the Congress.'

He pointed out: 'Congress can hold the president accountable for putting himself above the law, which is essentially in a sense what Ivanka Trump has done with these e-mails.'

The first daughter has even come under fire from fellow Republicans. 

'It's hypocritical and certainly it looks bad and I'm sure that the media will have a field day with it today,' Marc Short, who had served as legislative director in the Trump White House, told CNN.

And former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci agreed with that assessment.

'Certainly I think it's hypocritical,' he told CNN.

The White House declined to offer an official comment on the allegations against the president's daughter. 

And Larry Kudlow, the president's chief economic adviser, defended her in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday morning. 

'I think the absolute world of Ivanka Trump. She is a brilliant woman and a really important adviser to the president, period,' he said. 

Trump used her personal email account to send hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, government officials and her assistants - most of which were in violation of federal rules, it was revealed on Monday by The Washington Post. 

The revelation sparked immediate comparisons to Hillary Clinton, who famously used a private email server while secretary of state that became subject of a federal investigation and the target of criticism from President Donald Trump, who dubbed her 'Crooked Hillary' and said he would lock her up for it.

But Ivanka Trump's lawyer's office slammed any comparisons to Clinton.

'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 emails were ever deleted,' Peter Mirijanian, a spokesperson for Trump's attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell, to The Washington Post. 

Clinton had denied having classified emails on her private server.

'I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified,' she said on the campaign trail in August 2015. 

The FBI investigation later found that 110 messages contained information that was classified at the time it was sent.

White House ethics officials learned of Ivanka Trump's personal email use when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit, sources familiar with the matter told The Post.

Trump said she was not familiar with all the rules. 

The private email account came from a domain she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. 

They set up personal emails with the domain 'ijkfamily.com' through a Microsoft system in December 2016, after Trump won the presidency and the couple was preparing to move to Washington D.C.

Mirijanian said her use was mainly around her logistics and her family's schedule. The couple, both of whom serve as advisers to President Trump, have three children.

'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. 

He noted she had turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records as part of requirements by federal law under the Presidential Records Act.

Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it difficult to believe she would not know the rules.

'There's the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,' he told The Post. '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.'

American Oversight wrote to the top members of the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that 'it is incumbent on Congress to investigate this matter immediately.'

'The parallels between Ms. Trump's conduct and that of Secretary Clinton are inescapable,' Evers wrote in the letter. 'In both her use of personal email and post-discovery preservation efforts, Ms. Trump appears to have done exactly what Secretary Clinton did - conduct over which President Trump and many members of Congress regularly lambasted Secretary Clinton and which, they asserted, demonstrated her unfitness for office.'

Those close Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to hide her government work and only used her private email less than a hundred times, mainly to reply to those who emailed her.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner set up personal emails with the domain 'ijkfamily.com' through a Microsoft system after Trump was elected president

Ivanka Trump's lawyer's office slammed any comparisons to Hillary Clinton

President Trump attacked Clinton's email server during the 2016 campaign as his supporters shouted 'Lock her up'

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 email, sources told the newspaper.

Revelations about Clinton's email server led to an FBI investigation, which ultimately concluded she had been reckless but had not broken the law.

Clinton had a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. Thousands of her emails were deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation.

She, like Ivanka Trump, had said she didn't understand the rules. 

President Trump made Clinton's email use a favorite campaign weapon in the race against her, leading crowds of supporters to chant 'lock her up.'

Even after he defeated her and won the White House he publicly asked on multiple occasions and in tweets why he was the target of an investigation on whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia while Clinton was not being investigated. 

'I look at what's happening with the Justice Department, why aren't they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her dossier and the kind of money? I don't know,' President Trump said in a radio interview last November.

'Hillary Clinton's Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China,' the president tweeted in August without providing any evidence.

After discovering her private email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell to review which were personal and which were official business.

The White House Counsel's Office did not have access to her personal account. 

Lowell forwarded emails that he had determined were related to official business to Ivanka Trump's government account, sources told The Post. 

 

Link hienalouca.com

https://hienalouca.com/2018/11/22/president-trump-defended-ivankas-private-email-use-as-much-different-from-hillary-clintons/
Main photo article President Donald Trump defended his daughter Ivanka Trump’s private email use on Thanksgiving Day, saying it was ‘much different’ from Hillary Clinton’s.
It’s ‘much different from the other situation I’ve talked about for a long time,’ he said to...

It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

Dianne Reeves US News HienaLouca





https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/22/15/6522184-0-image-a-8_1542901566757.jpg