At least six senior Trump administration figures have used private email accounts for official White House business, according to various media reports.

Hillary Clinton, who lost the presidency to Donald Trump after a campaign in which her use of a private email server while secretary of state was a defining issue, called the news “just the height of hypocrisy”. Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, admitted through his lawyer on Sunday that he had done so in the administration’s early days. A New York Times report said Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, aides Gary Cohn and Stephen Miller, and former staff members Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus also used private accounts.

None of those named are believed to have broken the law, which allows public officials to use private addresses where official emails are forwarded to government accounts to be archived for reasons of transparency. However, the reports have the potential to cause serious embarrassment to Donald Trump, whose election campaign was built partly on regular and heavy criticism of Clinton for her use of a private email server.(theguardian)…[+]