Senior members of the Trump administration are continuing to use personal email accounts

During the election were you worried that Clinton was using a private email server? Well, worry no more. Trump has decided there’s nothing wrong with that:

Key advisors to the president, Kellyanne Conway and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as press secretary Sean Spicer and chief strategist Steve Bannon, all have accounts on the Republican Party’s rnchq.org domain, and are continuing to use them in addition to their official government accounts, according to Newsweek.

We note that the same rnchq.org domain was used by members of the Bush Administration, who were heavily criticized for having “lost” no fewer than 22 million emails when asked to hand them over to the presidential archives. It is also strongly suspected that the same domain and email server were compromised by Russian hackers during the presidential campaign.

Well, in their defense, Russia doesn’t need to actually hack any email servers in order to receive info from them.

Lock them up! Lock them up!

Trump has a really obvious defense here:

“No, they’re not. It’s not happening. Period.”

Trump is still using his person, non-secure Android phone too, per NYT.

Well they shouldn’t be using government accounts for non-government activities.

Hilary’s problem was that classified information was transmitted on that server.

Meanwhile, the president is continuing to use the same insecure Android phone he used prior to achieving office. How is that OK?

If they are doing party business they should be using RNC servers.

It’s OK if a Republican does it.

This seems accurate to me. Shouldn’t they use the RNC addresses for political RNC traffic and the .gov for official business?

That’s one way to put it. But the way you put it makes it seem like.Hillary was sending and receiving classified documents on that server. But was that true?

Inadvertent but there were a small number of UNMARKED emails that got through.

Slight emphasis added for obvious reasons

I never heard anyone explain why a politician using their own email server was a bad thing. I’m struggling to think of cromulent reasons, personally.

All government e-mails, classified or not, are supposed to be archived by the government. A personal server can get around that.

That makes sense but I still wouldn’t think it something justifying the level of outrage I saw coming out of the US.

Newsweek did its job well. The RNC has deleted the email accounts in question. Newsweek and other press outlets will hopefully follow up and make sure that Trump aides are using government accounts for official business.

However, I would note that government officials can definitely have private email accounts. They just can’t do government business on them.

This would be a good summary of a lot of Clinton-related scandals.

Not that one. If Trump’s team is using private email for government business, that’s very serious.

Also, the president is required by law to have an archive of all personal communication. not only work-related communication.

You could say that the charges were…

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Trumped up.

YYEEAAHH!