Washington (CNN) Two former high-ranking White House officials publicly said Tuesday that Ivanka Trump's use of a personal email account for official White House business was "hypocritical," because the Trump campaign vociferously criticized Hillary Clinton in 2016 for a similar practice.

According to emails released by the watchdog group American Oversight, Trump used her personal account to email Cabinet officials, White House aides and assistants. The Presidential Records Act requires all official White House communications and records be preserved.

"Well, look, Alisyn, it's hypocritical and certainly it looks bad, and I'm sure the media will have a field day with it today," former White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day."

"I accept that today's story is an ironic one and shows hypocrisy and is a mistake, and the administration shouldn't have had government emails going to private emails servers," he said, adding that "all of the emails have been handed back over to the federal government."

Speaking later on "New Day," former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci made a similar point.

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