Lawyer defends Ivanka Trump’s private email use

Bloomberg

Ivanka Trump used a private email account “while transitioning into government,” a spokesman for her lawyer said.
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Trump’s lawyer Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that President Donald Trump’s elder daughter — whose White House staff title is assistant to the president — used the private email “almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family.”
The statement was released after the Washington Post reported that the White House examined her correspondence as part of its response to a public records court case and learned that she had sent hundreds of emails — some to government officials — on the private account.
Sensitivities surrounding the issue stem from the 2016 presidential election, during which Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in her home during her tenure as secretary of state became a key thrust of the Trump campaign.
Trump’s email use could draw scrutiny from committees in the US House of Representatives when Democrats take control of that chamber in January after picking up more than three dozen seats in the November 6 midterm elections.