Wilbur Ross is reportedly the 8th Trump official to use private email for government business

Wilbur Ross.
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The State Department's intensifying Hillary Clinton email probe just got even more ironic.

Over the weekend, President Trump's State Department doubled down on its seemingly everlasting investigation into Clinton's use of a private email for government business. And as a Washington Post story published Monday reports, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross just became at least the eighth Trump official to do essentially the same thing.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.