Congress now investigating Trump admin’s potentially illegal use of private email

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

  

But his emails!!!!

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

 

In a development that was laughably predictable, members of the Trump administration have reportedly been conducting business over private email accounts, Politico reports.

In particular, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, “corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December.”

According to emails described to Politico, those other officials included former chief strategist Steve Bannon, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel.

As reported by Newsweek, Ivanka Trump also has a private email account on the family domain set up by her and Kushner in late 2016, which she used “to communicate with a government official after her father took office.”

And now the House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into these practices by the Trump administration.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democratic member on the committee, and Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the committee chairman, have sent letters to the White House and 24 federal agencies requesting “information related to senior officials’ use of personal, private, or alias email accounts to conduct official government business,” according to a statement.

Cummings and Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah had previously requested information in March 2017 regarding dozens of federal agencies’ compliance with both the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.

But the new reports about the use of private email by Kushner and others have amplified the urgency of the requests.

 

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[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Lock him up....lock him up........

 

JK

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

8 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Lock him up....lock him up........

 

JK

Seriously, did I just not hear 2 years of total BS about email servers and the risk to the nation?  

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts

By MATT APUZZO and MAGGIE HABERMANSEPT. 25, 2017

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email-trump-kushner-bannon.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Everything Hillary did Trump can do better don't ya know

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

4 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Everything Hillary did Trump can do better don't ya know

They need to get an investigator, is Comey still looking for work. 

[Dashinka 23,198]

5 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Everything Hillary did Trump can do better don't ya know

You are right, the precedent has been established.

[bcking 3,157]

5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

You are right, the precedent has been established.

Now we realise it was the pot calling the kettle black all along.

 

In fact it is more embarassing now. After all that time spent talking about how bad it was, how it was such a danger. There is absolutely no excuse. They came into the office after a prolonged investigation about someone's use of a private email server in the federal government. 

 

Jared has to be incredibly obtuse to not connect his use of a private email server with the use of private email servers in prior administrations.

Edited September 26, 2017 by bcking

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

57 minutes ago, bcking said:

Now we realise it was the pot calling the kettle black all along.

 

In fact it is more embarassing now. After all that time spent talking about how bad it was, how it was such a danger. There is absolutely no excuse. They came into the office after a prolonged investigation about someone's use of a private email server in the federal government. 

 

Jared has to be incredibly obtuse to not connect his use of a private email server with the use of private email servers in prior administrations.

I have to admit it's quite funny that a member or members of the current administration get caught doing the same things with private email accounts. But it's possible with the right FBI investigator just not being "sophisticated enough to understand" gets you a pass.

 

So soon after the previous mess how can they hand down reprimands now. Can the FBI be trusted to launch a fair investigation of wrong doing?

 

Looking back at Comey's testimony and giving Clinton a free pass is disturbing. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/28/careless-but-not-criminal-what-the-fbi-has-said-about-hillary-clintons-emails/?utm_term=.8ab190bbb79e

 

4. Clinton may not have been 'sophisticated' enough to understand classified markings

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) pointed out that the documents Clinton was receiving and sending would have been marked with a "C."

MEADOWS: "Wouldn't a reasonable person know that that was a classified marking?" he asked.
COMEY: "Before this investigation I probably would have said yes. Now, I'm not so sure."

MEADOWS:  "Come on. I've only been here a few years, and I understand the importance of those markings. So you're suggesting that for a long length of time that she had no idea what a classified marking would be?

COMEY: "It's an interesting question as to whether she was actually sophisticated enough to understand what a 'C' means."

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

1 hour ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

I have to admit it's quite funny that a member or members of the current administration get caught doing the same things with private email accounts. But it's possible with the right FBI investigator just not being "sophisticated enough to understand" gets you a pass.

 

So soon after the previous mess how can they hand down reprimands now. Can the FBI be trusted to launch a fair investigation of wrong doing?

 

Looking back at Comey's testimony and giving Clinton a free pass is disturbing. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/28/careless-but-not-criminal-what-the-fbi-has-said-about-hillary-clintons-emails/?utm_term=.8ab190bbb79e

 

4. Clinton may not have been 'sophisticated' enough to understand classified markings

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) pointed out that the documents Clinton was receiving and sending would have been marked with a "C."

MEADOWS: "Wouldn't a reasonable person know that that was a classified marking?" he asked.
COMEY: "Before this investigation I probably would have said yes. Now, I'm not so sure."

MEADOWS:  "Come on. I've only been here a few years, and I understand the importance of those markings. So you're suggesting that for a long length of time that she had no idea what a classified marking would be?

COMEY: "It's an interesting question as to whether she was actually sophisticated enough to understand what a 'C' means."

 

 

And you come back to Clinton because it is ok when the Trump administration is involved it. Little Kushner, so brazen and hypocritical to willfully create that
private email after Trump running on it amidst shouts of lock her up, can do no wrong in the eyes of the blind who deflect once again to Clinton.
Newsflash ! It's no longer about Hillary's emails, it's about Kushner so I suggest focusing on him.

[Dashinka 23,198]

1 minute ago, Ebunoluwa said:

 

 

And you come back to Clinton because it is ok when the Trump administration is involved it. Little Kushner, so brazen and hypocritical to willfully create that
private email after Trump running on it amidst shouts of lock her up, can do no wrong in the eyes of the blind who deflect once again to Clinton.
Newsflash ! It's no longer about Hillary's emails, it's about Kushner so I suggest focusing on him.

Yes, they are all hypocrites.  I believe that it is a pre-requisite for all politicians.

[Dashinka 23,198]

Wow, this actually came from WaPo.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/26/the-trump-teams-private-emails-are-problematic-so-is-comparing-them-to-hillary-clintons/?utm_term=.dfd5ed0d94d7

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

2 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

 

 

And you come back to Clinton because it is ok when the Trump administration is involved it. Little Kushner, so brazen and hypocritical to willfully create that
private email after Trump running on it amidst shouts of lock her up, can do no wrong in the eyes of the blind who deflect once again to Clinton.
Newsflash ! It's no longer about Hillary's emails, it's about Kushner so I suggest focusing on him.

 There is no way to avoid her name being dragged in to the current scandal and if they choose to investigate Kushner and "lock him up" then so be it. 

 

But she somehow managed to get a free pass and I would bet any money that Kushner will get one too. 

[Dashinka 23,198]

5 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

 There is no way to avoid her name being dragged in to the current scandal and if they choose to investigate Kushner and "lock him up" then so be it. 

 

But she somehow managed to get a free pass and I would bet any money that Kushner will get one too. 

As the WaPo story/analysis says, we need to understand the entire story before we hang them.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

15 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Yes, they are all hypocrites.  I believe that it is a pre-requisite for all politicians.

With one exception. Not a word from the Trump base here when he or his administration does wrong but instead constant finger pointing at Hillary over
and over again.