Six Trump officials used personal email accounts for White House business: report

Six Trump officials used personal email accounts for White House business: report
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At least six members of President Trump’s White House have used private email addresses while conducting government business, The New York Times reported Monday evening.

Current and former officials say that former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Stephen Bannon and current advisers Gary Cohn and Stephen Miller sent or received government-related emails on personal email accounts, in addition to two staffers who were previously reported.

The news follows reports that White House senior adviser and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has used a private email for White House business.

A watchdog group said Monday it obtained documents that also showed Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to communicate with a member of the Trump administration.

Federal employees are allowed to use a private email account as long as they forward government-related messages to their official work account in order to preserve the conversations so they can later be made available…

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