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The emails in question were sent from Mr Navarro’s personal email account, but have been determined to be presidential records – and thus US government property.
The probe has also reportedly subpoenaed former deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin, who served under chief counsel Pat Cipollone. The counsel’s office is thought to have been crucial in refusing to let former president Donald Trump politicize the executive branch’s legal apparatus to secure a second term.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s children Donald Jr and Ivanka have both been deposed in another investigation, this time the New York attorney general’s long-running probe in to the Trump Organization’s real estate dealings and alleged record of over- and under-valuing properties to obtain favourable loan terms while minimizing tax obligations."