Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump for use of private mail
The president of the United States defended his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, whom the Democrats of the Lower House plan to investigate for the use of his personal mail to discuss official White House business.
Trump's remarks come after local media reported that House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump's case.
"We need these documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner (the president's son-in-law) and other officials are complying with federal records laws and that there is a complete record of the activity of this Administration," he said in a statement collected by the newspaper. The Washington Post Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings. The representative is expected to be the next head of the chamber's Oversight Committee.
Cummings pointed out to the newspaper that the Lower House already made inquiries in 2017 about the use of emails by White House staff, but that the Presidency did not provide the necessary data.
Fake news?
"Everything is false news. What he did is in the presidential records. There was no deletion, there was nothing," Donald Trump insisted before journalists in relation to the information about his daughter, published this Monday by The Washington Post.
The president came out in defense of his daughter, although he acknowledged that "Ivanka did (sent) some emails", but that "they were not classified as those of Hillary Clinton, nor were they eliminated like those of Hillary Clinton", former secretary of state (2009-2013 ) and Trump's rival in the 2016 presidential election.
Like hillary
The case is similar to that of Clinton, whose use of the mail led to an FBI investigation and harsh criticism during the election campaign by Trump, who went so far as to request jail time for his opponent.
According to The Washington Post, Ivanka sent hundreds of emails to officials, advisers and assistants, many of them in violation of government protocols.
The newspaper had access to these data after the American Oversight organization, which is dedicated to supervising the country's institutions, made a request to the Administration to publish the data related to this case.
