Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R) on Tuesday said there is a \u00ab\u00a0big difference\u00a0\u00bb between White House adviser Ivanka Trump ‘s reported misuse of her private\u2026<\/b>
\nFormer Sen. Rick Santorum (R) on Tuesday said there is a \u00ab\u00a0big difference\u00a0\u00bb between White House adviser Ivanka Trump ‘s reported misuse of her private email address and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ‘s use of a private email server.
The Washington Post on Monday reported Trump used her private email address for government business, which immediately drew parallels to Clinton’s use of a private email server when she worked as Secretary of State.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Santorum, a CNN political analyst, and former South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers (D) if they believe the comparisons are fair.
\u00ab\u00a0To ignore the obvious differences here is, I think, a little hypocritical,\u00a0\u00bb Santorum said. \u00ab\u00a0Hillary Clinton went out an established her own server in full knowledge that what she was doing was wrong, number one.\u00a0\u00bb
Trump reportedly said that she did not know using a private email to correspond about business with government officials was a violation of federal records rules.
\u00ab\u00a0Number two, she \u2014 this was a political person who had political aspirations, who was doing things in her own interest as a political figure, as opposed to Ivanka, who is not a political figure, who is the daughter of the president, yet she was not the Secretary of State dealing with a variety of very sensitive and classified information,\u00a0\u00bb Santorum added.
Cuomo offered pushback on several of Santorum’s claims, saying Trump is a White House official who was corresponding with government figures. He also noted that she has high-level security clearance.
Cuomo added that Clinton’s email server was \u00ab\u00a0set up by her husband\u00a0\u00bb and her emails ultimately were not found to have contained classified information.
\u00ab\u00a0I didn\u2019t say [Trump] was blameless here,\u00a0\u00bb Santorum said. \u00ab\u00a0What she did was wrong, what she did was… inexcusable… But I don\u2019t think it rises to the level of what happened with Hillary Clinton.\u00a0\u00bb
He added that Trump’s use of private email was \u00ab\u00a0careless\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0not a good thing to do.\u00a0\u00bb
Sellers called GOP silence on Trump in light of the report \u00ab\u00a0hypocritical.\u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0Republicans didn\u2019t care about Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails,\u00a0\u00bb Sellers said of the way that Republicans targeted Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. \u00ab\u00a0All they wanted to do was prosecute her night in and night out, chanting ‘lock her up.’ Now, you have Ivanka doing the same thing and we\u2019re going to hear complete silence.\u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0If we\u2019re going to have an FBI investigation for Hillary Clinton, we need to have an investigation for Ivanka Trump,\u00a0\u00bb Sellers said.
Trump reportedly sent hundreds of emails about White House business and her official schedule to administration aides, Cabinet officials and her personal assistants, in violation of records rules.<\/p>\n

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