The Washington Post is reporting that Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants.

The report said that any of the emails violated federal records rules. Ivanka's practices are reminiscent of the personal email account Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state.

White House ethics officials learned of Trump's repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last autumn by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit.

In the emails, Trump discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.

Curiously when questioned about the emails, Trump claimed she was not aware of the rules. Something which is a little odd given that email rules helped her daddy get elected.

A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump's attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell, "acknowledged that the president's daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information”.

Trump sometimes used her account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family", he said in a statement. He insisted that Trump’s email use was different than that of Clinton.

" Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organisation, and no emails were ever deleted.”