The Trump administration’s private email use, now the subject of a congressional investigation, is a family affair.

Ivanka Trump used a private email for White House work, according to a report the day after her husband Jared Kushner was revealed to be using his own account for official business.

She was using the account to talk about “women’s entrepreneurship” with other federal employees on February 28, before Trump officially joined her father’s administration in March, according to an email published by American Oversight.

The email contains no bombshell information, though American Oversight's director Austin Evers told Newsweek that it shows “there’s one rule for the Trump family and another for everyone else.”

President Trump has repeatedly called for campaign rival Hillary Clinton to be prosecuted over her use of a private email server while Secretary of State, which the FBI said was “careless” but not a crime.

Maryland's Elijah Cummings, the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, announced Monday that he is starting an investigation into Kushner's private emails, and requested that he preserve all of his communications.

Kushner, who has been an official White House adviser since the beginning of the administration, began facing questions Sunday over what he discussed with his non-government communication, which is not subject to the same transparency requirements.

He created a private domain in December during the presidential transition and then later sent dozens of emails on event planning and other topics to figures such as former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, according to POLITICO.

His lawyer Abbe Lowell told the outlet, which also reported Ivanka Trump had an email on the same server, that Kushner had sent less than 100 emails on the account to government colleagues from January through August.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying Monday that the use was “very limited.”

“White House counsel has instructed all White House staff to use their government email for official business and only use that email,” she said.

Cummings said in a letter to Kushner that he should stop anyone from destroying records of his private emails, create a list of everyone he contacted with the messages and tell Congress who was responsible for security on the server. (Source: The New York Daily News)

Story Date: September 26, 2017