Ivanka Trump’s use of a private email account will soon face new scrutiny on Capitol Hill, with a key House committee planning to probe whether President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser violated the law when conducting government business.
“We plan to continue our Federal Records Act and Presidential Records Act investigation,” the aide said Tuesday. “We want to know if she complied with the law.”
In 2017, then-committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, and Cummings, the committee’s top Democrat, sent a letter to then-White House counsel Don McGahn saying that in the wake of reports of email misuse, the committee “has aimed to use its oversight and investigative resources to prevent and deter misuse of private forms of written communication.”
But many of the committee’s questions have so far gone unanswered by the White House.
The Washington Post reported Monday the White House conducted an investigation into Trump’s email usage and that she used her personal email address for much of 2017.
According to emails released by the watchdog group, American Oversight, Trump used her personal account to email Cabinet officials, White House aides and assistants. The Presidential Records Act requires all official White House communications and records be preserved.
The White House did not immediately comment on Ivanka Trump’s email practices, but her attorney said the use of the email was used “almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family.”
