Kushner Used Private Email for Government Matters: Report

By Michael Harthorne

September 25, 2017

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Jared Kushner has used a private email account to message other members of the Trump administration regarding official matters, reports Politico, citing four people "familiar with the correspondence" and approximately two dozen emails it's seen and verified. The messages from Kushner's private email were in regards to events, media coverage, and other topics and were exchanged with Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Gary Cohn, and others. 

President Trump has repeatedly hammered Hillary Clinton for using a private email server to conduct government business during her time as secretary of state. Abbe Lowell, Kushner's lawyer, admits the president's son-in-law has used a private email account for government business but says it was "fewer than 100 emails" during the first eight months of Trump's presidency. 

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