Left-wing pundits, activists, and entertainers attacked senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump following reports she used a personal email account to conduct government business, with some calling for her to be fired from the administration and imprisoned.
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The emails were sent to White House aides, Cabinet members, and Ivanka Trump’s assistants, many in violation of public records rules, the paper said. The emails the group uncovered include correspondence between Ivanka Trump and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
As Michael McGough of the Los Angeles Times writes, there is a world of difference between the personal email use of Ivanka Trump and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private server usage:
I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, but the differences between the Clinton and Ivanka email offenses are as noteworthy as the similarities.
First of all, Clinton was the secretary of State with access to sensitive information; Ivanka Trump has a vastly less important (and more amorphous) portfolio.
More important, the Washington Post, which broke this story, noted that the FBI eventually determined that 110 of Clinton’s emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. A spokesman for Ivanka Trump’s lawyer said that none of her emails contained classified information. If that’s true, it’s an important difference.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the email use, but a spokesman for Ivanka Trump’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, didn’t dispute the report.
“While transitioning into government… Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” said the spokesman, Peter Mirijanian.
Mirijanian stressed that no classified information was transmitted in the messages, that no emails were deleted and that the emails have since been “retained” in conformity with records laws.
“When concerns were raised in the press 14 months ago, Ms. Trump reviewed and verified her email use with White House Counsel and explained the issue to congressional leaders,” he said.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump defended Ivanka, calling concerns of potential wrongdoing “fake news,” while drawing a distinction between his daughter’s email use and Clinton’s.
“There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did,” the president told reporters before departing to Mar-a-lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida for Thanksgiving. “[Ivanka] wasn’t doing anything to hide her emails.”
“There was no servers in the basement, like Hillary Clinton had, you’re talking about all fake news,” he added.
Below is an assortment of activists, Hollywood celebrities and political pundits lambasting Trump over the email controversy:
You’ll be incarcerated soon. Thinking of having another kid?
— Jared Kotler (@Marcy_Kid) November 20, 2018
Dear @IvankaTrump , You can block anyone you want on social media but you will not be able to block the FBI ,DOJ , Mueller , the State of New York or the Prison Matron . Have a lovely ending . https://t.co/ptH4pA348N
— Charlie Adler (@charlie_adler) November 20, 2018
Ivanka sending emails out on her personal account even though she knew it was wrong when Hillary did it pic.twitter.com/BMHWPn6lhh
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 20, 2018
The House of Representatives must investigate @IvankaTrump’s emails ASAP.
This is a national emergency.
I’m worried sick about what classified information may have been intercepted.
Was she running a sex ring in a pizza shop?
America needs answers.
— andy lassner (@andylassner) November 20, 2018
@JudicialWatch hey, what are you doing about Ivanka Trump's emails? #LockHerUp?
— Corey Vidal (@CoreyVidal) November 20, 2018
Lucky for Ivanka, Republicans run the House next year and her private email shenanigans won't be investigated by–
Wait wait excuse me…
I've been told the situation has changed… pic.twitter.com/dzxooqvuNT
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2018
Ivanka Trump pleading ignorance to the rules against using personal after her Dad ran an entire campaign attacking Hillary Clinton for doing that exact thing is proof she is either the most entitled or the dumbest person on the planet https://t.co/AIC2175tc6
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 20, 2018
Finally, the “her” can refer to Ivanka. pic.twitter.com/vF03uSz3r0
— Ron Waxman (@RonWaxman) November 20, 2018
I hated “ lock her up “ it is as vile as you @realDonaldTrump but in truth your hate will bite you in your ugly orange ass as it will your sickening progeny @IvankaTrump @EricTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr and House Eunuch @jaredkushner Kharma’s a bitch ! #TrumpCrimeFamily
— Charlie Adler (@charlie_adler) November 20, 2018
I’m less interested in Ivanka’s private emails than I am her public corruption. https://t.co/d8v1d4mKBa
— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) November 20, 2018
If you haven’t heard yet… Ivanka is as dumb as Donald Trump claims Hillary Clinton is! https://t.co/UmP631kdv7 #IvankaTrump
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) November 20, 2018
Email gaffes weren’t important when Hillary made them and they aren’t important when Ivanka makes them now. Much, much, much more serious crimes in Trumpland, and they are about to be exposed.
— Bill Roorbach (@billroorbach) November 20, 2018
Here's what really bothers me about this – how stupid do you have to be to use your private email for government business just a few months after the Hillary faux email scandal? Ivanka can't plead ignorance, so it's either stupidity or a belief that the rules don't apply to her https://t.co/IF6RPv7Rop
— Dana Nuccitelli (@dana1981) November 20, 2018
Most nights I lie awake thinking about Bob Mueller lying awake thinking about Trump lying awake thinking about Ivanka lying awake next to Jared who’s lying awake thinking about anyone but Ivanka.
— Brad Wollack (@BradWollack) November 20, 2018
Ivanka is a spoiled jerk. https://t.co/0fRCBgKH2G
— Jess Phoenix 🌋 (@jessphoenix2018) November 20, 2018
Seeing as Donald Trump gets everything wrong it’s fair to say he got very excited when he thought he heard Ivanka Trump was emailing her privates.
— Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) November 20, 2018
#Ivanka sent hundreds of emails re gov’nt business on her personal server! We’re scandalized! All I can do is repeat what her father said when Hillary did something not unlike what his First Daughter did!! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!!! LOCK HER UP!! How do you like it now, putz?
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) November 20, 2018
Agreed. And this is the swampiest administration we’ve ever seen.
— bob clendenin (@bobclendenin) November 20, 2018
LOCK IVANKA UP
— Marti Gould Cummings (@MartiGCummings) November 20, 2018
Dems should run this to ground given her father thought a very big deal when it involved Hillary. So it’s got to be s big deal for Ivanka! https://t.co/7sGtr8XV7Q
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) November 20, 2018
Yes Ivanka used a personal email account for government business, but in her defense, if Trump was my father I also wouldn't understand the concepts of privacy or boundaries.
— Subhah (@Subhah) November 20, 2018
1. Judge block's Trump's asylum ban.
2. Naughty Ivanka's been using private emails for government business (lock her up?)
3. Jim Acoata's back at press briefings.
I'm guessing they phoned out for extra cheeseburgers at the White House this morning! #stresseating— David Mac Dougall (@davidmacdougall) November 20, 2018
Ivanka Trump used personal email for White House business.
Lock Her Up!
Lock Her Up!
Lock Her Up!
Lock Her Up!#LockHerUp #trump #usa #politics #maga #gop #hypocricy #republicans #righteous https://t.co/SeJ44AtCPb— Labi Siffre (@labisiffre) November 20, 2018
Investigative Ivanka’s Emails!!
— Christopher Titus (@TitusNation) November 20, 2018
Trump up to 4 scandals or fuckups a day. Today: Ivanka used personal email for govmt business / troops back from border proving "caravan" horror was election stunt / Trump too scared to visit troops in combat zones / Saudi arms deals exaggerated. Thanks Trump voters and @GOP !
— Mike Scott (@MickPuck) November 20, 2018
Ivanka Trump pleading ignorance about using private email for government business after her father ran an entire campaign attacking his opponent for that exact thing is proof she’s either a liar (just like her father) or an idiot (just like her father).
— MatthewDicks (@MatthewDicks) November 20, 2018
Can we have a remake of the commercial in which Trump confronts Ivanka with her emails and she cries, “I learned it from you, dad, I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!” pic.twitter.com/JiUK2YdvJr
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 20, 2018
You just have to laugh at the irony of @IvankaTrump using a personal email account to send government business. I wonder if @realDonaldTrump will endorse locking her up?
— Bill Press (@bpshow) November 20, 2018
If there is any karma at all, Ivanka will have to face people chanting "lock her up!" any time she goes out in public. (But let's face it, there is no karma and she'll just sequester herself behind a wall of lawyers and PR people till it blows over.) https://t.co/c82ILJt9TK
— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) November 20, 2018
Has Ivanka been arrested yet?
— andy lassner (@andylassner) November 20, 2018
Incompetent Ivanka and her emails
— Khary Penebaker, Fx (@kharyp) November 20, 2018
Ivanka Trump isn’t dumb…
She is a bad person. Just like every other Trump.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) November 20, 2018
These emails make it perfectly clear that Ivanka's representation that her private email use was just for personal scheduling is just false. She is conducting regular government business. https://t.co/gc9lx8IxVg
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) November 20, 2018
Donald Trump should fire Ivanka Trump
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 20, 2018
Lock her up! Lock her up! @IvankaTrump #IvankasEmails @realDonaldTrump
— Ben Rimalower (@benrimalower) November 20, 2018
@realDonaldTrump Well Well Well Crooked Ivanka eh! #LockHerUp
— Nicholas Soames (@NSoames) November 20, 2018
I just heard someone say “Ivanka should just acknowledge a mistake was made and didn’t know.”
Donald Trump won an entire presidency on the importance of Hillary Clinton’s emails. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Either Ivanka is an dangerously stupid or dangerously arrogant.
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) November 20, 2018
And just like that Ivanka is out of the headlines for using her private email account for government biz, and apparently will face no consequences- nor will the media outlets that gleefully brought down Hillary’s campaign for far less admit their fault here. Infuriating!
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) November 20, 2018
Maybe #Ivanka just does not understand contractions… 'Don't'. Not 'Do it'. pic.twitter.com/V9xGps85ZR
— Yvonne Redmond (@yvonneredmond) November 20, 2018
Hey @realDonaldTrump chant along with me “Lock Ivanka up, lock Ivanka up, lock Ivanka up….”
— John Archer (@TheArchini) November 20, 2018
The invention of email has proven to be a very bad thing for Crooked Ivanka in that it has proven her to be both incompetent and a liar!
— Joe Madison (@MadisonSiriusXM) November 20, 2018
If Ivanka actually gets locked up, that would be some cosmic justice.
— Carl Newman (@ACNewman) November 20, 2018
Has Ivanka been locked up yet?
— Jennifer L. Rohn (@JennyRohn) November 20, 2018
Arrogant AND ignorant. @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @realdonaldtrump @IvankaTrump Remember your calls of Lock Her Up? How is this different? https://t.co/6yW2B1B0rM
— Caroline Leavitt (@Leavittnovelist) November 20, 2018
With such thoroughness, it's surprising @IvankaTrump didn't notice her pattern of using her personal email account for official gov't work. (From "Women Who Work," Kindle ed., p. 114.) pic.twitter.com/Pp26RvfFp0
— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) November 20, 2018
If only it would make a difference. Just look to @senatemajldr for his hypocrisy after blatant shutting down everything Obama tried to do and then calling for unity.
Or @IvankaTrump and her emails.
Something tells me no GOPers will be chanting “Lock her up” for the same crime. https://t.co/dEWqUbtJuY— Nathan Quarry (@NateRockQuarry) November 20, 2018
Ivanka on her way to prison pic.twitter.com/81k3oq1KmC
— Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) November 20, 2018
Still feel like the bigger story should remain: Why are people like Ivanka Trump conducting government business? https://t.co/UzJTPpkTx5
— Matt Passet (@MPasset) November 20, 2018
Okay. Now, I'd like to hear Trump say, "Lock Ivanka up" for using her personal email to do WH business.
He's been calling Hillary Clinton crooked, & has been telling everyone that she has to be locked up for using her personal email.
So, what makes Ivanka different this time?🙄 https://t.co/L5KrH1nExz
— Francis Baraan IV (@MrFrankBaraan) November 20, 2018
Really excited for @realDonaldTrump to call for his rally audiences to chant “lock her up” about @IvankaTrump and her emails.
— Billy Lunn (@billysubway) November 20, 2018
Hey Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the IVANKA emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 20, 2018
Hi @IvankaTrump
Remember #LockHerUp?Pot calling the kettle?
Ivanka Trump ripped on social media over email scandal: https://t.co/eluciu5u3x
— Geronimo on the radio (@GeronimoBPM) November 20, 2018
There is a pattern of evasion and destruction of what may be potential evidence of wrong-doing under Trump: Trump won't release his taxes, his companies destroyed emails against court orders, Ivanka and others use private email, and the WH tried to keep visitor logs secret.
— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) November 20, 2018
Ivanka before going to prison and Ivanka after going to prison pic.twitter.com/VERLuX2g1N
— eric eidelstein (@ericeidelstein) November 20, 2018
In @IvankaTrump’s defense, I would use my personal email a lot more if I worked for the White House and was doing shady things overseas.
— Brad Wollack (@BradWollack) November 20, 2018
Hey Russia- Trump wants you to help us find Ivanka's missing emails. What do you say?! Can you help out an old comrade? pic.twitter.com/XyOzIGDRPN
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 20, 2018
Focusing on Ivanka's emails isn't just an issue of hypocrisy or parity. The Trump campaign made this a central issue, a campaign promise. What is their justification for being so careless themselves? What else did they claim to care deeply about and have now abandoned? https://t.co/WR218v0v6j
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) November 20, 2018
Is @IvankaTrump in prison yet?
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 20, 2018
SEXY FLIRTY yet SUBTLE by Ivanka Trump. Made in China….of course. pic.twitter.com/hHlNwphUa0
— ronitaylor (@ronitaylor) November 20, 2018
Mattis from his prison cell re Ivanka: “Lock her up…Lock her up”
— Benjamin King (@SirBenjaminKing) November 20, 2018
It's ok, Ivanka Trump's emails. I'm insecure too.
— Official Stove Top Stuffing™ (@TimDuffy) November 20, 2018
Hey media stop doing the media spin for Ivanka Trump. Love how @KatyTurNBC just was like NO NOPE NO.
Ivanka does not get to play dumb NOW like she didn't know the rules.
You ran your entire campaign on emails and so now you gotta own it. #SorryNotSorry
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) November 20, 2018
Oh come the eff on, Ivanka?!? Like… REALLY?!??? https://t.co/wsCAppv5Ja
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) November 20, 2018
ivanka right now: https://t.co/qitZMkTkaL
— Evan Aczon (@TwoSeamGripe) November 20, 2018
Ivanka rn pic.twitter.com/BYNvWPnxMd
— Chris Mohney (@chrismohney) November 20, 2018
Breaking: Instead of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, Trump will issue pardons for Don Jr and Ivanka
— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) November 20, 2018
On Ivanka Trump using her private email to do official work, CNN says this: It may not be illegal, but in terms of irony…off the charts!!!!
— rama lakshmi (@RamaNewDelhi) November 20, 2018
Ivanka’s email scandal is a good time to remember that: IVANKA TRUMP IS COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED AND ONLY WORKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE OF NEPOTISM!#IvankasEmails
— simon king (@unfamous) November 20, 2018
Last night, guess who jumped to the defense of Ivanka Trump? The Russian Gov’t, via their propaganda network RT. Attacking me, other progressives & journalists. Their story title? “Liberals cry hypocrisy over reports of Ivanka’s private email use–but it’s not the same as Hillary”
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 20, 2018
Oh, Ivanka! Happy thanksgiving, girl.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) November 20, 2018
“Ivanka Trump’s father was elected in part by whipping up crowds into saying “Lock her up!” as he talked about Clinton’s email server. But FOIAs show Ivanka Trump emailed with commerce secretary Ross, others, after she was a WH official.” …….Isn’t it rich pic.twitter.com/9KjjDVB08H
— Monica Raymund (@monicaraymund) November 20, 2018
Let’s be Good Christians I know POTUS and his base have been begging for Hillary Clinton’s Use of Private Emails to “Lock Her Up” but I would like to say to the POTUS please don’t plead to lock your Daughter Ivanka up for being guilty of doing the same thing.
— Bishop Paul S Morton (@BishopPMorton) November 20, 2018
US MSM: "It's very ironic that Ivanka has private email."
NO. It's ironic that the Trumps are Mobsters, Hillary is not, and the MSM made the email server "story" MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING OWNED BY RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME. #WisconsinButteryMales
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 20, 2018
Hey everybody who's upset that Ivanka Trump suffers no consequences for her emails while Hillary lost the Presidency for the exact same thing – you have to realize that Ivanka shows her boobs much more than Hillary did. pic.twitter.com/jvhsShyxq8
— Rick G. Rosner (@dumbassgenius) November 20, 2018
TIRED: Being mad at the media for getting duped by conservatives' bad-faith outrage over Hillary's emails.
WIRED: Being confused why no one cares when Ivanka does it.
— Johnny McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) November 20, 2018
Yes but What about @IvankaTrump’s emails??? #LockHerUp for the Holidays!!
— Pat Francis (@Pat_Francis) November 20, 2018
so: lock her up!#Ivanka Trump machte es wie Hillary Clinton https://t.co/OVkD1CXpg5
(Foto©: dpa) pic.twitter.com/E77WQwJL3e
— N. Clemens Wortmann (@waldrebe) November 20, 2018
ivanka every other day: im a calm cool with it modern american businesswoman, on top of all the things
ivanka after getting caught today: who me? im jus a widdle girl who went to father-daughter work day, i dont know nuthin' but no email thingies
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 20, 2018
Is where we chant #Lockherup ?@IvankaTrump #askingforafriend pic.twitter.com/dAmQHAeRmK
— Denmark98 (@denmark98) November 20, 2018
ivanka is a liar. her last name is still trump. https://t.co/aFW0OQjK6e
— Game of Thornes (@GeoffThorne) November 20, 2018
Listening to the elderly couple at the table next to me discuss how Ivanka didn't do anything wrong but Hillary definitely knew better makes me realize how lucky I am all my grandparents are dead. #HappyThanksgiving
— Bob Castrone (@BobCastrone) November 20, 2018
Hillary was cruising to victory with even Georgia and Arizona in play until Comey made an issue of her emails.
Then how Ivanka’s emails will barely be the subject of a single news cycle, if that?
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) November 20, 2018
Ivanka's smug entitlement combined with her oblivious stupidity – I mean she is as dumb as it gets – are what infuriates me most.
— David Russell (@17days) November 20, 2018
Lock @IvankaTrump up! pic.twitter.com/vVjXpWNL7i
— Damon Gonzalez (@TheyCallMeDaymz) November 20, 2018
Ivanka Trump used her personal email account for government business. She should take a lesson from her dad and conduct White House business on Twitter, where it belongs.
— Matt Fernandez (@FattMernandez) November 20, 2018
@IvankaTrump pic.twitter.com/fu1ulcz483
— Jaime Primak (@JaimePrimak) November 20, 2018
been chuckling for 45 seconds thinking about nancy pelosi chanting "crooked ivanka!" and "lock her up!"
— collier meyerson (@collier) November 20, 2018
Soooo…in addition to having rich parents, is this how Ivanka got richer?
So ironic. @IvankaTrump is in deep trouble, if the GOP actually cares about the integrity of government emails. If, OTOH, the GOP were just hustling us in '16, we'll know it soon. (Betting on latter.) https://t.co/3ExW7zmeDM
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) November 20, 2018
Instead of locking Ivanka up, let’s make her live off of a normal persons income, make her shop at a mall in North Jersey and replace her families accountant with turbo tax.
— Mike Kelton (@mikekelton) November 20, 2018
This is basically my view as well. Let’s not compound the problem by treating Ivanka’s emails as a more worthy news story than the immigrant children who have not been reunited w/ their parents. https://t.co/7eiNtC3mVc
— Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) November 20, 2018
Given her doing more or less the dumbed down version of Hillary Clinton’s first half as First Lady to set up a future run for office, I guess it makes sense that Ivanka Trump would end duplicating HRC’s email scandal, too. https://t.co/X7XIAQhO0u
— Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick) November 20, 2018
Ivanka during those lock her up chants pic.twitter.com/PujqfHClPc
— Jordan Watkins (@Big75Fella) November 20, 2018
Seen at the #WhiteHouse this afternoon. The story behind this sign tonight on @Newsy. #Ivanka #IvankasEmails #ivankaemails #LockHerUp pic.twitter.com/lkfs43BF4Z
— Alex Miller (@AlexMillerNews) November 20, 2018
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) November 20, 2018
As we always say on @gaslitnation, @IvankaTrump is her father wrapped up in a prettier package. https://t.co/zLe8o6hUvi
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) November 20, 2018
As I always say on Twitter, @IvankatRump is Eva Braun. https://t.co/FGkHev6EMj
— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) November 20, 2018
Ivanka’s statement (why from her lawyer?) makes 5 assertions about what she did/didn’t do. Why should we take them at face value if WH never conducted the promised investigation of her/Jared’s email practices?
They don’t deserve any benefit of the doubt. They only deserve doubt. pic.twitter.com/N1VORvTUOp
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) November 20, 2018
Given the stink both the @GOP and @RealDonaldTrump made about @HillaryClinton and her emails, #Ivanka claiming she didn't know the rules about email server usage makes about as much sense as a Swiss cheese condom.
— Jack Wallen (@jlwallen) November 20, 2018
As I predicted this AM and sure enough Trump did it with his statement today out of the blue on #JamalKhasoggi – he wants to get the media away from covering Ivanka's emails https://t.co/fG2udcIm6O
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 20, 2018
Why does @IvankaTrump still have a job?
Oh, nepotism.
Doesn’t she pose a security threat?
Doesn’t matter, nepotism.
Where are the Congressional hearings?
Rules don’t apply, because nepotism.
This is why we have anti-nepotism laws.
This is why she shouldn’t have been hired.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 20, 2018
Ivanka says she didn’t know personal email wasn’t allowed even though Trump spent most of 2016 whining about Hillary's private server. I can’t with these people. This is some plutonium grade hypocrisy.
— Touré (@Toure) November 20, 2018
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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