Won’t rat on email usage

WASHINGTON — The White House counsel’s office is refusing to tell a committee on Capitol Hill which of President Trump’s aides used private email accounts for public business, a top Democrat said Friday.

According to a letter from Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, attorneys from the White House counsel’s office said this week that “several” aides to Trump have said they failed to abide by the Presidential Records Act by using private email accounts. But Cummings said the White House lawyers would not identify the employees or commit to doing so in the future.

The White House has faced scrutiny over the email practices after it was revealed that Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House aide, Jared Kushner, set up a private email account after the election and used it to conduct work-related business.