Ivanka Trump says ‘Lock her up!’ doesn’t apply in her case

Ivanka Trump defends her use of a private email account as she was moving into an adviser’s position in her father’s administration, saying that it cannot be compared to the flap over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private email server and that “Lock her up!” doesn’t apply to her.

“All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions,” President Donald Trump’s elder daughter and adviser tells ABC News in an interview broadcast today.

The Washington Post reported this month that Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year to White House aides, cabinet members and her assistant, many in violation of public records rules.

“There is no restriction of using personal email,” she says. “In fact, we’re instructed that if we receive an email to our personal account that could relate to government work, you simply just forward it to your government account so it can be archived.”

Clinton used a personal email account linked to a private server at her home in Chappaqua, a New York City suburb, during her time as the top US diplomat under President Barack Obama. The FBI found classified information in some of the emails that were sent or received through her private server.

Clinton deleted thousands of emails that she and her lawyers decided were personal or unrelated to her work as secretary of state before she turned over thousands of other emails to federal investigators. She said she had been unaware of rules against using private email to conduct the public’s business.

— AP