Ivanka Trump, first daughter and advisor to President Trump, personally addressed a recent Washington Post report regarding her use of private email for government business when she first began working for the White House.
In an interview with ABC’s Deborah Roberts Tuesday evening, Trump argued that there was “no equivalency” between her use of personal email and Clinton’s use of a private server while she was Secretary of State.
"All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide," Trump said. "There's no equivalency to what my father's spoken about."
"There is no restriction of using personal email,” she added. “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.”
“People see it as the same,” Roberts insisted.
“People who want to see it as the same see it as the same,” Trump replied. “But the fact is that we all have private emails and personal emails to coordinate with our family. We all receive content to those emails and there's no prohibition from using private email as long as it's archived and as long as there's nothing in it that's classified.”
.@IvankaTrump to @DebRobertsABC on her use of personal email vs. Hillary Clinton's: "There just is no equivalency between the two things." https://t.co/yL3oLTXcqd pic.twitter.com/qBiTbw8BdB
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 28, 2018
Roberts pressed Trump on this, once again attempting to equate President Trump’s campaign rhetoric on Clinton’s private server and mass deletions to her email use.
“Your father hammered Hillary Clinton on this, said that it was criminal, she should be locked up,” Roberts said.
Trump once again highlighted the differences between the two.
“In my case all of my emails are on the White House server,” she said. “There's no intent to circumvent and there were mass deletions after a subpoena was issued. My emails have not been deleted, nor was there anything of substance, nothing confidential that was within them. So, there's no connection between the two things.”
An FBI investigation uncovered that Hillary Clinton had sent classified emails through her private server, contrary to assertions she made during her 2016 presidential run. She also deleted about 31,000 emails after a congressional subpoena.