Ivanka Trump is defending her use of a private email account when she first started her job as a senior adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, while insisting that her situation does not compare to Hillary Clinton's scandal.
"All of my emails are stored and preserved," Trump told ABC News' Deborah Roberts in an exclusive interview airing on "Good Morning America." "There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide. There's no equivalency to what my father's spoken about."
Trump, speaking from Wilder, Idaho, where she is promoting STEM initiatives along with Apple CEO Tim Cook, further said there is no restriction to the use of personal email in a government job like hers.
"In fact, we're instructed that if we receive an email to our personal account that could relate to government work, you simply just forward it to your government account so it can be archived," she told Roberts.
Trump Wednesday also said she is not concerned with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 election, saying that she knows the facts as they relate to her and her family.
She also said she thinks the investigation should come to an end, but she wants that to happen in a way that nobody can "question that it was hurried or rushed."
Meanwhile, Trump commented that she and her father have a good working relationship, even though they do not agree on all issues, because she is "incredibly candid with him."
"He knows exactly where I stand on any issue," she said. "I'll always tell you what I'm for, but it is not my place as somebody working within a White House to tell you what I'm against. The only person who knows that is one person, and he knows it."
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