Ivanka Trump and her legal team are defending her reported use of a private email address with government-related materials.
“It’s hypocrisy on parade,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Fox News on Tuesday, noting how President Trump and fellow Republicans railed on Hillary Clinton for her use of private email to conduct government business.
At the same time, Dershowitz said that Ivanka’s private email use wan’t a big deal and there’s no reason for people to be going nuts about it in the first place.
“Look, everybody uses private emails. We now have a list of probably a dozen people in public life who have used emails. Apparently Ivanka Trump used the emails only for scheduling purposes, there was no classified material, the emails were all preserved. It’s a non-issue.”
While Ivanka Trump’s use of private email does not appear to have been as elaborate or extensive as Hillary Clinton’s, Dershowitz said that neither one amounted to anything significant, and that criticism from each side is “just partisan bickering.”
“We should not be criminalizing the use of private emails, whether by Hillary Clinton or by Ivanka Trump, and we should put that issue behind us,” Dershowitz said.
Another issue Dershowitz said was overblown in the same segment is the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General and the lawsuit filed by Democratic Senators.
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Dershowitz is wrong for the simple reason that Hillary directed her own private e-mail SERVER, clearly for the purpose of hiding e-mails. Trump’s private e-mail account received e-mails sent by others to her (which she responded to directly by using the e-mail).
The mere use of a private email was not why people were saying to lock Hillary up. That was just a red herring the liberals came up with to make it sound like there weren’t any real concerns. There was obviously something more nefarious going on there.
clinton had top secret clearance documents and then erased 30000+ emails – lock her up. ivanka used it to schedule before she has official email.
Like Secretary of State Clinton, Ivanka has a top secret clearance.
Democrat dream of a two-tier justice system. We can talk about Ivanka Trump after Hillary Clinton’s trial. what she did got no where even close to what Hillary Clinton did — and Hillary Clinton has been exonerated.
This is an effort to exoranate Hillary by comparing.
The FBI and James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton for trafficking in classified data over an unprotected server with the president of the United States (and everybody else) who lied to the American people about when he knew that Hillary was using that server. He said he only found out about it when everybody else did in the news, which was a lie , because Obama was emailing back and forth with her via her private server that was unprotected