In my defense there was no way I could have known there were policies in place regarding the use of private emails for government work because it never ever came up before.
But her, sigh, emails.
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.
Yeah, that's right. After the 2016 election from hell, in which we learned that government email retention protocols are among this nation's most sacred duties, et cetera, and so forth, top White House adviser Ivanka was staggeringly unclear on how all that email business should work.
She and Jared set up their own private email addresses during the transition, and Ivanka just kept using it once she was given a White House desk. And we are assured, since Ivanka Trump is both SUPER POWERFUL IMPORTANT ADVISER PERSON and doted-upon daughter of an idiot manchild, one who cannot possibly do wrong and always has secret private opinions that are much less monstrous than the stuff the people she advises end up doing, that this was all a big oops because she didn't know the rules and nobody told her the rules and to be honest the very concept of "rules" is so baffling to everyone in this White House that we should just be grateful for each day that passes without her and Jared trying to steal the copper wiring out of the walls.
People close to Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staff about prohibited use of private email, according to people familiar with the situation.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what we're gonna go with. Ivanka Trump was Extremely Super Unclear on whether or not there were special rules surrounding government email usage. Totally slipped her mind. Nobody on staff bothered to mention it. Oopsie-poopsie, and so forth.
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