GOP House Judiciary chair says it's 'awfully tough' for officials like Ivanka Trump to follow federal email rules

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Sure, House Judiciary Committee chair Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said on CNN Monday evening, it's fair to investigate Ivanka Trump's use of a private email account for government business. But some sympathy for President Trump's daughter and senior White House adviser is due, he added, because email rules are so tricky.

"When things like this come up, it's important people understand, they need to make sure they're doing what they can," Goodlatte said. "And it's awfully tough, as everyone knows, when you're sending emails about a lot of different things, to make sure that you're doing it according to the rules in the White House or wherever you're doing it."

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Watch a clip of Goodlatte's comments below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.