Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner

Trump golden boy son-in-law Jared Kushner and a number of other top Trump officials have been using private email addresses to do official business all along, we learned last month, despite that whole Trump campaign “lock her up” thing because Hillary Clinton used a private email server. And, of course, the White House is now rejecting congressional inquiries into the matter:

In a terse letter to Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) — leaders of the House oversight committee — President Donald Trump's congressional liaison Marc Short declined to indicate whether any administration officials had used personal email accounts or messaging services, despite reports suggesting such communications were common in the West Wing. "The White House and covered employees endeavor to comply with all relevant laws," Short wrote in a two-page reply delivered late last week and obtained Monday by POLITICO.

Do they “endeavor to comply” in the same way that Jared endeavored to fill out his security clearance questionnaire, only to revise it repeatedly because, whoops, he made more than 100 errors and omissions? While Short’s letter goes into slightly more detail about what the “relevant laws” are, this is the Trump White House. If there’s not a loophole, there’s a lie.