Cummings reiterates calls for an investigation into the use of Ivanka Trump's e-mail

A new report that Ivanka Trump used a personal e-mail to lead the official affairs of the White House would give a new impetus to a bipartisan investigation launched by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee last year. hinted on Tuesday the new chair of the committee.

The highest-ranking Democrat of the committee, Elijah Cummings, said on Tuesday that although the committee has requested information from the Trump administration on the use of private messaging by officials there is more to it. a year, the White House has still not responded to these requests, citing an internal review. .

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"Last year we launched a bipartisan survey on the use of private courier accounts by White House officials for official purposes, but the White House never gave us the information that we had requested, "Cummings said in a statement. "We need these documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other officials are complying with federal records laws and that there is a comprehensive record of activities of that administration. "

The Washington Post announced Monday that before joining Ivy Trump at the White House as a senior advisor to her father, she was communicating with current administration officials via her personal email account and was continuing to contact her. from time to time when she joined the administration. e-mails from his personal account.

A spokeswoman for Ivanka's attorney sought to downplay the report, telling the Post not to know the guidelines regarding the use of personal email and archival preservation at home. -Blanche, and have since issued e-mails regarding White House activities to other official documents.

Last fall, the House Watch Committee called on the White House to reveal the name of any top official who uses a private email address or encrypted technology for government purposes after POLITICO announced that Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, also advisor to the president, had a family messaging domain for both.

The defense of Ivanka Trump, claiming that she was unaware of the policies regarding the use of a personal email, made her eyebrow shake because of the pounding his father's incessant during the 2016 presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a similar offense. Ivanka Trump's spokeswoman told the Post that unlike Clinton, Ivanka Trump had not sent classified information through her personal email account or cleared email batches like Clinton.

The monitoring group whose requests under the law on information and freedom of information prompted on Tuesday the discovery of Trump's emails called for a congressional investigation.

"The president's family is not above the law, and Congress should immediately investigate serious issues," said Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight. "Did Ivanka Trump send all her e-mails for conservation purposes, as required by law? Did she send confidential information via a private system?"

"For more than two years, President Trump and congressional officials have made it clear that they believe that the use of personal mail servers for government business is a serious offense that requires investigation and even prosecution. to be applied in this case, "the group added in a statement.

Even though Trump's use of personal e-mail has attracted accusations of hypocrisy from Democrats, Cummings warned that he did not want an investigation to become uncontrollable, as he had previously been Clinton.

"My goal is to prevent this from happening again – not to make it a show like the Republicans did after Hillary Clinton," he said, claiming that "my main priority in as president will be to focus on the issues that affect the Americans in their country. " daily life. "