Updates | The Week of September 25, 2017
Eve Levin // 10/1/17 //
At least six White House officials used private email accounts to discuss Trump Administration matters (NYT).
- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is looking into Jared Kushner’s use of a private email account to communicate with Trump Administration officials (The Hill; WaPo).
- White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Kushner’s use of personal email was “very limited” (Politico).
- Ivanka Trump also used a personal account to contact the Small Business Administration, after she began attending high-level administration meetings (The Hill).
Steve Bannon made plans to plant a mole inside Facebook to infiltrate the company’s hiring process before the 2016 election (Buzzfeed).
Courts must hold President Trump accountable by affirming the administration’s duty to maintain and preserve records, write Norman Eisen and Anne Weismann.
The Trump Administration shows an unprecedented opposition to fulfilling the core missions of the executive departments, argues Paul Waldman at The Washington Post.