said.
• Like Trump, Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers（政府服务器） entirely.
• Revelations about Clinton’s personal email system led to an FBI investigation of whether she had mishandled classified information. The scandal shadowed Clinton throughout the 2016 White House race, culminating in then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his conclusion that she had been reckless with government secrets.
• “There’s the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,” Evers said. “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.”
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• White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies （内阁机构） to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.
• Clinton originally said none of the messages
she sent or received were “marked classified.” （被列为机密的）. The FBI(美国联邦调查 局） later determined(后来确定） that 110 emails contained classified information at the
But Mirijanian ，another official stressed that her email use was different than that of Clinton, who had a private email server(私人 电子服务器）in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton’s emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation.
• “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（特朗普集 团）,and no emails were ever deleted,” he also
• “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,” Abbe Lowell. the White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel(道德顾问） said.
Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records.
time they were sent or received.
• Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight（自由监 督组织美国监督）, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Trump’s daughter did not know that government officials should not use private emails for official business.
Ivanka Trump used personal accounts to send e-mails about government business
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• Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides（白宫助手）, Cabinet officials （内阁官员）and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.
• The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. Trump attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary”（不诚实的希拉里） for using a personal email account as secretary of state. （国务卿）
• Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act（总统记录法）, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations.