[NEWS] Melania Trump used emails and private text messages as first lady

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The revelation that the first lady broke security regulations, which require communications between senior officials to be through official and protected systems, echoes the scandal that cost Hillary Clinton her candidacy for president

 

 

Melania Trump used emails and private text messages as first lady, thus breaking the basic security regulations of the United States Administration, which require that communications between high officials be made through official and protected systems. That is the accusation made by the former adviser - and former personal friend - of Donald Trump's wife, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, in an interview with the Washington Post.

"Melania and I never used emails from the White House," says Wolkoff, who just published the book 'Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.' Among the systems used by Melania Trump, according to Wolkoff, are a private email from the Trump Organization - the society under which all the president's business activities are organized -, from the Internet domain MelaniaTrump.com, from the text messaging service of The iPhone, iMessage, and the Signal app.
To support his accusations, Wolkoff, who was one of the coordinators of the parties for the transfer of powers from the presidency of Barack Obama to that of Donald Trump, has presented several online conversations with Melania Trump to the newspaper through private electronic messaging systems . The two broke their friendship as a result of investigations into possible misappropriation of funds in acts of transfer of powers from Obama to Trump. Wolkoff accuses Melania Trump of having tried to attribute the alleged irregularities to her company, WIS Media Partners, and of having eluded all responsibility.

The revelation that Melania Trump used private email and text messages echoes the scandal that cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 presidential bid: her decision to use Google-owned Gmail email and a private server on her home in New York, during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2012 to 2016. Clinton did not report to the State Department, and when an investigation was conducted into the case, it was discovered that among the emails on the server were 22 with the rating 'Top Secret'.

In addition, Clinton deleted 33,000 emails from her server so that they were not accessible to researchers. In August 2016, in the middle of the electoral campaign, Donald Trump launched his famous phrase in relation to emails when he said: "Russia, if you are listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 missing emails." The Clinton email scandal prompted prominent Republican figures, including Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, to sing chants saying "Lock her up!"

Paradoxically, no one has taken similar action against other senior officials in the Trump administration - or that of George W. Bush - for using private emails. General Colin Powell, who was US Secretary of State during the invasion of Iraq, also used a private email. The same is true of Donald Trump's senior advisers, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president's daughter and son-in-law respectively.