You might not remember, but the story about Ivanka Trump using a private email to conduct official government business is a recycled story. It came out a year ago, 9/25/17. But now the media is reporting like this is a new revelation.
As Reported By Newsweek September 25, 2017:
Ivanka Trump, the first daughter and adviser to the president, used a personal email address to communicate with a government official after her father took office, according to documents that the nonprofit American Oversight obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and shared exclusively with Newsweek.
The documents show that on February 28, Trump—identifying herself as Ivanka Kushner—emailed Linda McMahon, the administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, from a personal domain. At the time, Trump was operating inside the White House in a nonofficial capacity. She wrote that she wanted McMahon’s agency and her staff to “explore opportunities to collaborate” on issues related to “women’s entrepreneurship.” She copied on the correspondence the government email addresses of two other federal employees, Dina Powell and Julie Radford.
As Reported By The Washington Times:
Trey Gowdy: Republicans have already investigated Ivanka's emails more than Dems did Benghazi
“Congress has a responsibility to make sure that the records and the Presidential Records Act is complied with, and that is true no matter who the person is, whether it’s Secretary Clinton or whether it’s Tom Perez or whether it’s Ivanka Trump,” Mr. Gowdy said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“So we’ve taken steps, we’ve done more in the last week than some of my House Democrat colleagues did the entire time we were looking into Benghazi,” he said. “So I’m at peace with what we’ve done, but we need the information and we need it quickly.”
“There are two separate issues: The divulging of classified information is a crime. Using personal email upon which to conduct public business is not a crime,” said Mr. Gowdy. “You’re not supposed to do it. It’s not best practices.”
So why are we hearing about this again?
Why now?
It’s because the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Email Scandal are now being looked at again.
The media wants to justify, downplay and normalize the illegality of the Clinton Email Scandal.
They want to lull you into an accepting desensitized slumber.
They count on the fact that you are too busy with work, family and having a life, to pay close enough attention to actually understand, what Mrs. Clinton did and why it was wrong.
Basically, they think you are stupid.
But I know better.
You are definitely not stupid! You are no zombie sheep. They won't get away with trying to trick you.
As soon as you have all the right factual information, you are perfectly capable of thinking for yourself.
“They,” the media, elites, swampy politicians and the Deep State imbedded government rats, think that you can’t tell the difference between Ms. Trump-Kushner’s situation and Mrs. Clinton's.
They think that you won't notice that sending work related emails from your private email address, (gmail.com,) is quite a bit different than doing regular Sec. of State business for years including classified intel, on a completely private unprotected server located in your home, (clintonemail.com).
Although both situations are not particularly correct standard procedure, it’s obvious which actions are clearly illegal and wrong.
The “new” story of Ivanka’s email “scandal:”
As The Washington Post reported:
Ivanka Trump, the president’s oldest daughter and a senior White House adviser, sent hundreds of emails pertaining to government business using a personal email account in 2017, in violation of federal records laws. As the Post drily noted, “The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign.”
The scale of the Clinton and Trump uses is different. Clinton used a personal server for four years while serving as secretary of state; Trump used personal email for part of a year. While working as an unpaid Senior White House Adviser to the President and also archiving all of those emails, none of which were classified.
It’s important to note that no classified information was compromised by Ms. Trump.
The major illegalities of what Mrs. Clinton did:
1. Private Server in Her Home - In layman's terms that means instead of a state.gov server connected to the federal government's firewalls and security, she had more like a vulnerable unguarded clintonemail.com. Which was potentially very accessible by hackers/foreign powers. (It's been reported that the server was compromised by foreign entities.)
2. Classified Documentation on the Clinton Server - Clinton Emails Reveal Classified Docs, Clinton Foundation Connections / The emails show Hillary Clinton conducted classified and sensitive negotiations about the Israel-Arab conflict on her unsecure, non-governmental server.
From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department, 1 have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and 8 contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional emails were ''up-classified'' to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the emails were sent. 10 emails in 52 email chains
3. Obama used alias to email Clinton on private email server - President Obama was one of a select handful of individuals who had “direct contact” with Hillary Clinton on her private email account, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz indicated in his bombshell report.
4. Inspector General discovered that, with four exceptions, “every single one” of Clinton’s emails—more than 30,000—“were going to an address that was not on the distribution list.” - In other words, something was causing Clinton’s server to send copies of all of her email communications outside of the country “to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia.” (Thought to be China.)
Rep. Louie Gohmert gets personal in heated exchange with Peter Strzok
5. Clinton used special tool to wipe email server - Clinton’s lawyers used a special tool, (Bleachbit,) to delete emails from her personal server so that “even God can’t read them,” House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy said. “They were using something called BleachBit. You don’t use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridemaids emails. When you’re using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see.”
From the Bleachbit site: “When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy.”
6. Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors - Pay to Play. Crown Prince of Bahrain Forced to Go Through Foundation to See Clinton, after Pledging $32 Million to Clinton Global Initiative
As Reported By Judicial Watch:
Hollywood Executive Casey Wasserman, Slimfast Mogul Daniel Abraham, Controversial Appointee Rajiv Fernando also among Clinton Foundation Donors Granted Special Favors from Clinton State Department
So that's why she needed a private server and deleted so many emails….
7. Clinton aide would destroy Clinton’s old phones by “breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer,” according to investigators.
CNN HOST STUNNED TO LEARN HILLARY AIDES DESTROYED PHONES WITH HAMMERS [VIDEO]
1. Obama DOJ “asks” FBI to shut down Clinton Investigation - Tucked inside the inspector general’s report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running for president.
The official was “very pissed off” at the FBI, the report says, and demanded to know why the FBI was still pursuing the Clinton Foundation when the Justice Department considered the case dormant.
As Reported By The Washington Times:
Former FBI officials said the fact that a call was made is even more stunning than its content.
James Wedick, who conducted corruption investigations at the bureau, said he never fielded a call from the Justice Department about any of his cases during 35 years there. He said it suggested interference.
“It is bizarre — and that word can’t be used enough — to have the Justice Department call the FBI’s deputy director and try to influence the outcome of an active corruption investigation,” he said. “They can have some input, but they shouldn’t be operationally in control like it appears they were from this call.”
Mr. McCabe thought the call was out of bounds.
He told the inspector general that during the Aug. 12, 2016, call the principal associate deputy attorney general expressed concerns about FBI agents taking overt steps in the Clinton Foundation investigation during the presidential campaign.
“According to McCabe, he pushed back, asking ‘are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?’” the report said. “McCabe told us that the conversation was ‘very dramatic’ and he never had a similar confrontation like the PADAG call with a high-level department official in his entire FBI career.”
Well consider that emails revealed that the foundation was receiving donations from those who wished to have special access to Sec. of State Clinton. That would give a motive to need a private email server in order to hide and filter the corruption.
2. FBI Lost Chain of Custody of Clinton Server for Five Weeks - FOIA docs show that FBI lost chain of custody for five weeks of Hillary Clinton's server. They lost the chain of custody entirely and had to created a new one.
https://t.co/enxNv8h9sl
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3. Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal - (as mentioned above...) He knew?...
As Reported By Politico Sept. 2016:
In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.
"Once informed that the sender's name is believed to be a pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: 'How is this not classified?'" the report says. "Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president's use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email."
The report doesn't provide more details on the contents of that particular email exchange, but says it took place on June 28, 2012, and had the subject line: "Re: Congratulations." It may refer to the Supreme Court's ruling that day upholding a key portion of the Obamacare law.
It's been known since last year that Obama and Clinton corresponded occasionally via her private account, but the White House has insisted Obama did not know she relied on it routinely and exclusively for official business....
Or did he???
As Reported By The Federalist:
“FBI analysts and Prosecutor 2 told us that former President Barack Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account,” the report says in a footnote on page 89. “Obama, like other high level government officials, used a pseudonym for his username on his official government email account.”
In 2016, while drafting a public statement explaining why the FBI wouldn’t prosecute Clinton during her run for the presidency, Comey changed the statement’s wording to hide that Obama had communicated with Clinton through her private email address, the report says.
“A paragraph [in Comey’s statement] summarizing the factors that led the FBI to assess that it was possible that hostile actors accessed Clinton’s server was added, and at one point referenced Clinton’s use of her private email for an exchange with then President Obama while in the territory of a foreign adversary,” the IG report says. “This reference later was changed to ‘another senior government official,’ and ultimately was omitted.”
Here’s Obama in March 2015, telling CBS News the opposite, that he had no idea Clinton was breaking the law using a private, unsecured email server to conduct public business.
CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante asked Mr. Obama when he learned about her private email system after his Saturday appearance in Selma, Alabama.
‘The same time everybody else learned it through news reports,’ the president told Plante.
Just so you didn't miss anything....
According to the Inspector General, appointed by President Obama, in the report he states that Obama knew about Hillary's secret e-mail scheme, because she e-mailed him using her private address, (clintonemail.com,) "while in the territory of a foreign adversary." That finding was removed from Comey's statement exonerating Clinton.
So Mr. Obama lied. He knew. He probably always knew.
This is why Hillary Clinton was never in any danger of being indicted. She in a sense had the President's approval.
4. FBI CONFIRMS COMEY DRAFTED STATEMENT ENDING CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION MONTHS BEFORE INTERVIEWING HER - the FBI confirmed that former FBI Director James Comey drafted a statement about the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton email investigation months before interviewing Clinton.
5. FBI’s Claim That No Evidence Was Found Regarding Hillary Clinton Server Breach But That is Misleading - Congressman Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the claim made by the FBI that they have ‘not found any evidence’ regarding Hillary Clinton’s serving being breached:
“It’s not surprising that the FBI ‘has not found any evidence’ regarding Clinton’s servers being breached. Like I stated to Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok in the House Judiciary Hearing, it was the Obama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General that discovered the breach. It was not the FBI that found it, so their statement was technically correct, but very deceptive in its omission.
When I asked Peter Strzok about this, he said that he remembered being briefed by the ICIG investigator but did not remember what it was about. That is not credible. We know that the FBI’s head of counter-intelligence, Mr. Strzok, was doing all he could to help protect Hillary Clinton. So, when the Intel IG investigator came to report to Mr. Strzok that a specific foreign intelligence entity (which was not Russian) was receiving virtually all the emails from Secretary of State Clinton’s private server in real time, it is not remotely believable that he would not remember the conversation. In fact, if he testified that he remembered the briefing, he would be potentially incriminating himself in a coverup or obstruction role.
6. State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs - A federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing "clearly false" affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
As Reported By Fox News:
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth also said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.
"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case," Lamberth said during the hearing.
The Department of Justice's Inspector General (IG), Michael Horowitz, noted in a bombshell report in June that it was "inconsistent with typical investigative strategy" for the FBI to allow Mills to sit in during the agency's interview of Clinton during the email probe, given that classified information traveled through Mills' personal email account. "[T]here are serious potential ramifications when one witness attends another witness' interview," the IG wrote.
Lamberth, said he did not know Mills had been granted immunity until he "read the IG report and learned that and that she had accompanied [Clinton] to her interview."
7. 'Insubordinate' Ex-FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated policy and inaccurately described the legal situation surrounding Clinton's emails - In testimony before Congress Comey claimed that he had been pressured by former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch to call the Clinton investigation a "matter" in 2015, rather than an investigation.
Others present who heard Lynch's instruction did not interpret her as trying to downplay the investigation, but instead to standardize language for personnel purposes. Perhaps more significantly, the IG report found that Comey seemed to have kept his concerns entirely to himself.
8. Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch made errors in judgment during the Clinton probe - "Tarmac Meeting" The I.G. criticized Lynch for a.) continuing to retain involvement in the Clinton probe despite the appearance of bias. b.) and failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Clinton’s visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment
9. FBI agents' actions surrounding the DOJ/FBI interview of Hillary Clinton were 'inappropriate' and created appearance of bias - Lisa Page, the special counsel to the deputy director of the FBI, sent messages to Strzok, McCabe, and another FBI employee suggesting that the agency limit the number of people attending the critical in-person interview with Clinton as the investigation wrapped up, the IG report said. Page's chief consideration was that Clinton would be angry at the FBI upon becoming president, which the IG flags as an "inappropriate" consideration.
Ivanka Trump told ABC that she had forwarded any relevant email sent to her personal account to her government account in accordance with the Presidential Records Act and that the emails in question contained no classified information.
As Reported By The Chicago Tribune:
"There really is no equivalency," she said. "All of my emails that relate to any form of government work, which was mainly scheduling and logistics and managing the fact that I have a home life and a work life, are all part of the public record. They're all stored on the White House system. So everything has been preserved. Everything has been archived. There just is no equivalency between the two things."
So you see it's not really about the personal email address.
It's actually about:
1.) the personal server
2.) the deletion of subpoenaed documents and devices
3.) the investigation that wasn’t legitimate and obstruction of justice
4.) the donations to the Clinton Foundation allegedly for access to the server from foreign powers / PAY FOR PLAY
5.) The mishandling of classified documentation
6.) The server sent copies of all of HRC's email communications outside “to an unauthorized source” that was a foreign entity most likely China. (Over 30,000)
7.) Obama DOJ “asked” the Obama FBI to shut down Clinton Investigation
The Clinton Foundation saw contributions dry up approximately 90% over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017, according to financial statements.
No more play/power, no more pay.
Now do you see the difference?
There really is no comparison.
Luckily justice will soon be served and people will finally know the truth.
A federal judge ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to answer five questions she has avoided for years about her use of a private email server to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan on Wednesday gave Clinton 30 days to respond under oath to five questions.
The five questions are:
1.) Who decided to create the clintonemail.com system?
2.) When was it created?
3.) Why was it created?
4.) Who set it up?