Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have announced that they will launch an official investigation into Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account to determine whether her act was in breach of federal law.
The move was prompted on Tuesday, a day after the Washington Post revealed that US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who is also a senior White House adviser, had violated federal records rules by sending emails to government officials throughout much of 2017 via her personal email account.
The Post claimed that ethics officials had uncovered hundreds of emails sent by a domain Ivanka shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.
US Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, announced that the panel had started a bipartisan investigation last year into White House staffers’ use of personal email and whether they were in compliance with records law.
“We plan to continue…