Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private RNC Email Accounts
Source: Newsweek
Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.
The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have lost 22 million emails.
Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.
But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for locking up Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrats presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department, says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.
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GusBob
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kimbutgar
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(10,952 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)calimary
(81,323 posts)Okay Andrea Mitchell, that's your cue...
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)to answer for this IMMEDIATELY!!!
No hypocrites!!!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)UpInArms
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IMPRISON!!!!
Achilleaze
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raging moderate
(4,306 posts)The High Command needs such a convenient way to keep tabs on them.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)calimary
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rtracey
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Leith
(7,809 posts)and he won't do anything. They're rethugs, after all.
Mark.Gray
(12 posts)Yavin4
(35,443 posts)Inquiring minds want to know.