Abbe Lowell, Kushner’s attorney, challenged aspects of the account by the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
By Tom Hamburger and Tom Hamburger Investigative reporter focused on the intersection of money and politics in Washington Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow March 21 at 4:34 PM House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings said Thursday that an attorney for Jared Kushner told him in December that the president’s son-in-law uses the encrypted messaging application WhatsApp for official business, including with people overseas.
A White House spokesman acknowledge receiving Cummings’s letter Thursday and said the chairman’s requests would be reviewed.The use of messaging services such as WhatsApp could run afoul of White House policy and the Presidential Records Act, which prohibits White House officials from sending a record “using a nonofficial electronic message account” unless the messages are copied to an official account within 2o days.
According to Cummings’s letter, Lowell said during their December meeting that Kushner was in compliance with records preservations rules because he took screen shots of his communications and forwarded them to his official email or to National Security Council officials. In his letter Thursday, which was first reported by Politico, Cummings said Lowell also told him in their December meeting that Kushner’s wife, presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, was continuing to receive emails related to White House business on her private email account and did not always to forward them to her White House account.
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