Newly released e-mails show Ivanka Trump kept using personal account

Enlarge / Ivanka Trump, adviser and daughter of President Donald Trump, attends a news conference on October 25, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

New e-mails procured by a government transparency advocacy group show that the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, continued to use a personal e-mail account even after she joined her father’s administration beginning in March 2017 until at least July 2017.

In e-mails published Thursday by American Oversight, which obtained the materials through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Trump’s e-mail address is fully redacted under a (b)(6) exemption, which is the portion of the FOIA law that protects government officials from a “clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

Last month, American Oversight revealed in September that Trump, who serves as an official advisor to the president, was using a non-government e-mail account.

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Source: Ars Technica – Newly released e-mails show Ivanka Trump kept using personal account