Ivanka Trump reportedly sent hundreds of White House emails from private account

Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account, it is reported.

President Trump’s daughter, who works as an adviser to her father in his administration, reportedly breached federal records rules with many of the messages sent to White House aides, officials and her assistants.

The Washington Post said yesterday that ethics officials found out about her use of a personal device to discuss White House business when reviewing emails pulled together last year by five cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit.

The review unearthed Trump’s discussions of White House business on a private email account throughout 2017 using a domain shared with her husband, Jared Kushner, it said.

Aides were reportedly surprised by Trump’s excuse, that she was not familiar with some details of the rules.

In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email server as secretary of state, calling her “crooked Hillary” and introducing the chant "lock her up" at his campaign rallies.

Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ivanka’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told the Post that while transitioning into government, the president’s daughter “sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family”.

He insisted the breach was different to the case of Clinton, saying Trump "did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted”.

Revelations about Clinton’s use of a private email server led to an FBI investigation into her handling of classified information, haunting her run for presidency.

Donald Trump tweeted about the case as recently as August, calling her corrupt and saying: “At some point I may have to get involved!”