President Trump defended his daughter, saying there was no comparison to Hillary Clinton\u2019s email practices and dismissing the issue as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump, who campaigned in 2016 by aggressively criticizing Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server, dismissed as \u201cfake news\u201d on Tuesday questions about a similar practice by his daughter Ivanka Trump during her early days working in the White House.
A White House review showed that Ms. Trump sent dozens of government-related emails to and from a private account, and hundreds related to her West Wing schedule, in the first half of 2017.
The review promptly caught the attention of House lawmakers. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, who is expected to lead the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform next year, said on Tuesday he planned to investigate the matter, and the outgoing chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, asked for details about the review\u2019s findings.
\u201cIvanka can handle herself,\u201d the president said. \u201cThese are all in the historical records.\u201d
He said his daughter\u2019s use of a personal email address was \u201cunlike Hillary Clinton\u201d because of the private server that Mrs. Clinton had in her house. \u201cThis was just early on when she came in,\u201d Mr. Trump said of Ms. Trump\u2019s emails. \u201cAnd it\u2019s all fake news,\u201d he added, using his favorite term for coverage he does not like.
The president made the remarks to reporters as he left the White House for his vacation at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Democrats accused Mr. Trump of hypocrisy, saying that while the volume of emails sent from a private address was much greater in Mrs. Clinton\u2019s case, the basic alleged violation of law was the same.
Last year, members of Congress began a bipartisan inquiry into the use of private email accounts by officials in the White House after Ms. Trump\u2019s email use, as well as that of her husband, Jared Kushner, was revealed. But they received little cooperation.
\u201cMy goal is to prevent this from happening again \u2014 not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton,\u201d Mr. Cummings said. \u201cMy main priority as chairman will be to focus on the issues that impact Americans in their everyday lives.\u201d
In a letter to John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, Mr. Gowdy asked how many emails sent from Ms. Trump\u2019s private account touched on official business and whether any contained classified information. He also asked the White House to certify that the emails in question had been properly preserved and archived as outlined in the Presidential Records Act.
Mr. Gowdy, who played a key role in uncovering Mrs. Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server for government business, did not request copies of Ms. Trump\u2019s emails themselves.<\/p>\n

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