The following article by Josh Gerstein was posted on the Politico website December 17, 2017:
A lawyer contends that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner failed to identify the assets owned by 30 investment funds the couple had stakes in. | AP Photo
First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner were hit with a lawsuit Sunday alleging illegal omissions on their public financial disclosure forms.
Washington lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky contends that Trump and Kushner failed to identify the assets owned by 30 investment funds the couple had stakes in. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington also claims the couple should have declared the value of and income they derived from two investment vehicles, but did not. Continue reading “Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner are sued over financial disclosures”
The following article by Greg Price with Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website December 14, 2017:
The president’s “favorite” kid might be becoming his problem child.
Ivanka Trump has been defying the stances of her father, President Donald Trump, repeatedly in the past few months, raising questions about whether the child the commander-in-chief once singled out as his favored Trump is now brewing a resistance of her own. And her husband, Jared Kushner, has apparently gotten on Trump’s bad side once again recently, following months of controversies tying him to the Trump-Russia investigations.
Ivanka broke with her father on supporting Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore after the Republican contender faced sexual misconduct accusations from nine women. “There’s a special place in hell for people who prey on children,” Ivanka told the Associated Press after Moore’s accusations were reported. “I’ve yet to see a valid explanation and I have no reason to doubt the victims’ accounts.” Doug Jones, the Democrat who ended up beating Moore on Tuesday, used part of that quote in a campaign ad. Continue reading “Are Ivanka And Jared Kushner Defying Trump?”
The following article by Marie Solis of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website December 12, 2017:
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President Donald Trump endorsed Roy Moore partly out of resentment against top advisers who condemned the candidate—including his daughter Ivanka Trump.
The following article by Jim Tankersley was posted on the New York Times website November 29, 2017:
From left, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida spoke at a news conference on expanding the child tax credit last month. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump urged senators this month to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most Americans have health insurance and use the proceeds to slash the top tax rate paid by the richest Americans, a suggestion that pitted his priorities against his daughter and Republican senators intent on helping the middle class.
In the end, the president accepted only a partial victory. He got the repeal of the health law’s individual mandate, but gave up on an income tax rate cut that would have directly benefited him personally. Instead, Ivanka Trump and her allies in the Senate prevailed in their push to include an expanded child tax credit.
“This was certainly an uphill battle, especially given that it is not an issue that is as widely understood,” said Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah and a leading advocate of the expanded child tax credit. “We didn’t necessarily have the sense that the president was opposed to it. I still don’t have that sense. I think if he had been, things would have worked out differently than they did.” Continue reading “Trump Wanted a Bigger Tax Cut for the Rich, Ivanka Went Elsewhere”
The following article by Shilpa Phadke was posted on the Center for American Progress website November 27, 2017:
Ivanka Trump walks across the stage during a town hall meeting on tax policy in Richboro, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2017. Credit: AP/Rich Schultz
U.S. House Republicans recently jammed through a tax bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that gives massive tax cuts to millionaires and the ultrarich instead of those who need it the most: working families. Ivanka Trump, who has been traveling around the country advocating for the bill, claimed in Pennsylvania, “This tax plan couples two things that are really core values as a country, which is work and supporting the American family.” But, her tax pitch does not tell the full story of the bill, namely that nearly 87 million working- and middle-class households would see a tax hike in 2027. And the massive deficit increases from the bill will likely be used by conservatives to justify cutting government programs that support families. Far from supporting working families, these consequences would be devastating to millions and hurt the U.S. economy. Ivanka Trump should be straight about how much people such as her and her family stand to benefit from the tax bills and how those benefits are at the expense of the very women and families she claims to be fighting for.
The following article by Drew Harwell, Annie Gowen and Swati Gupta was posted on the Washington Post website November 26, 2017:
An Indian man asks for money in Hyderabad, India, on Nov. 13. Authorities in the city are rounding up homeless ahead of a visit by Ivanka Trump. (Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press)
When Ivanka Trump leads a U.S. delegation to southern India this week, the president’s daughter will use her official role as a White House adviser to promote female entrepreneurship and economic power.
But looming over her visit will be an uncomfortable question that Trump’s company has refused to answer: What are the work conditions for laborers in India who have pieced together clothes for her fashion line?
Trump has called for more support for working women around the world, but she has remained silent about the largely female garment workforce in India and other Asian countries that makes her clothing.
The following article by Chris Riotta with Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website November 25, 2017:
Donald Trump’s White House may no longer be a family-run business in the years ahead, if Chief of Staff John Kelly’s conversations with the president’s advisers reflect a possible foreshadowing of departures among the first family.
The former secretary of national security—now tasked with heading Trump’s day-to-day operations in the West Wing—has discussed the possibility of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump bowing out of the administration by 2018, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, Peter Baker and Sharon LaFraniere reported Saturday. The developments follow similar reports indicating Trump himself has questioned whether the first daughter and her husband should remain in the White House amid negative press surrounding their involvement in his administration. Continue reading “White House Chief Of Staff Discussed Departure Of Ivanka And Jared”
The following article by Chris Sosa was posted on the AlterNet website November 21, 2017:
The president appears to have lost faith in his son-in-law’s political advice.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has not been impressed by the amateur efforts of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. He’s increasingly reduced Kushner’s power in the West Wing and recently expressed displeasure behind the scenes about Kushner’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia.
In a surprising shift, Trump himself is now getting sick of the Kushner sideshow. The president suggested that Kushner and Ivanka Trump go home to New York City, according to Vanity Fair. Trump is concerned about the political media coverage of the couple.
Trump is also said to resent Kushner’s advice to back losing Republican Alabama Senate primary candidate Luther Strange, along with the advice to fire FBI director James Comey.
“He keeps pressuring them to go,” a source close to Kushner told Vanity Fair.
The following article by Chris Sosa was posted on the AlterNet website November 8, 2017:
The couple used a privately owned aircraft for a vacation in Vermont.
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Unnamed officials told Newsweek that President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner used a helicopter owned by a Trump business for a personal vacation. Their use of the private aircraft “blurs the line” between the White House and the Trump family’s personal business interests, according to the officials, and appears to be unethical.
The following article by Celeste Katz with Newsweek was posted on the Naitonal Memo website October 23, 2017:
Maybe it just slipped her mind.
Ivanka Trump’s federal financial disclosure report doesn’t mention her past involvement with the charitable foundation that bears her family’s name—and which remains under investigation for self-dealing.
President Donald Trump’s daughter is working as an advisor to him in Washington while her two adult brothers run the family’s business empire. As a result, she was required to submit details about her income and jobs outside the federal government over a period of several years before she joined the executive branch. Continue reading “Ivanka Omits Trump Foundation From Disclosures”
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