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A brilliant video skewers Ivanka Trump by contrasting her flowery speech with the brutal reality under her father

AlterNet logoOn May 18, White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump recorded a commencement speech for 2020 graduates of Wichita State University Tech. But plans for the president’s to speak to the graduates remotely were droppedafter her father, President Donald Trump, drew widespread condemnation for his militarized response to the George Floyd protests.

But Ivanka Trump released the video on Twitter anyway. In a devastating response, the progressive political action committee the Meidas Touch skewered the performance by combining the speech with footage of police violence against nonviolent protestors.

The Meidas Touch was founded in April by attorney Ben Meiselas and his two brothers. Meiselas represented football star Colin Kaepernick’s lawsuit against the National Football League; Kaepernick asserted that the NFL blocked him from playing as a way of punishing him for protesting against racism by taking a knee before games. Continue reading.

Wichita State Cancels Ivanka Trump’s Commencement Speech—And She Blames ‘Cancel Culture,’ ‘Discrimination’

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Wichita State University Tech nixed a virtual commencement speech from Ivanka Trump because of the George Floyd protests, prompting Trump, a White House senior advisor and the president’s daughter, to decry “cancel culture” and “viewpoint discrimination.”

KEY FACTS

  • Hours after WSU Tech announced that Ivanka Trump’s would give a commencement speech on Saturday, the university abruptly canceled her address.
  • In response to complaints from some students and faculty, the university’s president Sheree Utash said the timing of the announcement was “insensitive” because of “social justice issues brought forth by George Floyd’s death.”

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Ivanka Trump ‘urged’ president’s church photo-op — which could become a ‘defining moment’ of his time in office: NYT

AlterNet logoFirst daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump “urged” her father to take part in a controversial photo-op with a Bible according to a new report from The New York Times.

“After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own front yard and forced him to briefly retreat to a bunker beneath the White House, President Trump arrived in the Oval Office on Monday agitated over the television images, annoyed that anyone would think he was hiding and eager for action,” the newspaper reported.

“He wanted to send the military into American cities, an idea that provoked a heated, voices-raised fight among his advisers. But by the end of the day, urged on by his daughter Ivanka Trump, he came up with a more personal way of demonstrating toughness — he would march across Lafayette Square to a church damaged by fire the night before,” the newspaper reported.

Hope Hicks was reportedly the brains behind the photo-op. Continue reading.

Ivanka Trump offered a bizarre suggestion for how Americans could spend Saturday night. It did not go well

AlterNet logoFirst daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump offered a suggestion for bored Americans to do during the COVID-19 shutdowns.

She suggested people, “try making shadow puppets from Henry Bursill’s recently unearthed 1860’s book of engraving.”

At least two Twitter users offered photos of a shadow made by a hand, but they were not shaped as an animal. Continue reading.

Ivanka Trump, Disregarding Federal Guidelines, Travels to N.J. for Passover

New York Times logoMs. Trump herself has not followed the federal guidelines advising against discretionary travel, leaving Washington for another one of her family’s homes.

WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s eldest daughter and a senior White House adviser, has positioned herself as one of the leaders of the administration’s economic relief efforts and one of its most vocal advocates of social distancing.

“Those lucky enough to be in a position to stay at home, please, please do so,” Ms. Trump said in a video she posted online, encouraging Americans to follow federal guidelines about social distancing, which suggests that people stay at least six feet apart. “Each and every one of us plays a role in slowing the spread.”

But Ms. Trump herself has not followed the federal guidelines advising against discretionary travel, leaving Washington for another one of her family’s homes, even as she has publicly thanked people for self-quarantining. And effective April 1, the city of Washington issued a stay-at-home order for all residents unless they are performing essential activities. Continue reading.

Trump ordered to expand document search in suit alleging he endorsed pyramid scam

Washington Post logoNEW YORK — President Trump and three of his adult children have been ordered by a federal judge to search through 15 years of business records for materials that could inform a lawsuit alleging they profited by promoting a marketing scam targeting vulnerable investors.

Trump is being sued by four people who say they were duped into joining the multilevel marketing company ACN years ago because of his endorsement. The suit characterizes ACN as a pyramid scheme and accuses Trump of having made misleading claims as a paid pitchman prior to his presidency. All four say they suffered financially as a result.

The order on Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Lorna Schofield allows the plaintiffs to look further into the Trump Organization’s history — to 2005 — for others who may have been involved in the president’s deal with ACN. Continue reading.

GOP Group Targets Trump’s Children With ‘Grifters’ Attack Ads On Fox News

“It’s time someone held them accountable,” said The Lincoln Project after launching its new anti-Trump campaign.

The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans whose principal objective is to defeat the president in the 2020 election, is targeting his adult children with its new campaign.

A voiceover pretending to be Ivanka Trump explains why “daddy being president is the best thing ever” in the first episode of the group’s “Grifters” series, released Friday.

Fake Ivanka explains how the Trump family has financially benefited from being in office while news stories appear in the theme. Continue reading.

Critics Lash Jared Kushner For Saying Bolton, Kelly, Mattis Didn’t ‘Have What It Took’

Like a wife who’s the president’s daughter?

News watchers’ jaws dropped when CNN reported Saturday that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and political neophyte Jared Kushner claimed that former national security adviser John Bolton, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and former White House chief of staff John Kelly didn’t last in the Trump administration because they “didn’t have what it took.”

The comments are part of a CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria that will air Sunday. Kushner, referring to the heavyweights, claimed they were no longer in the administration because Trump “cycled out a lot of the people who didn’t have what it took to be successful” in the White House.

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Kushner was head of his family’s real estate business with absolutely no political experience when he was named senior White House adviser by his father-in-law as soon as Trump took office. Continue reading.

Anti-human-trafficking groups refuse to attend Ivanka Trump’s White House summit

Washington Post logoOn Friday, President Trump is expected to attend a White House summit organized by his daughter Ivanka on human trafficking, an issue he frequently invokes as a top priority. But some of the country’s most prominent anti-trafficking organizations and advocates won’t be there. They have decided to boycott the event.

The group includes Polaris, the nonprofit organization that runs the national human-trafficking hotline, and the leader of Freedom Network USA, the country’s largest anti-trafficking coalition. Their decision comes after months of anguish over what they describe as an act of public deception. They say that although the president frequently invokes human trafficking, his administration is actively endangering a significant portion of trafficking victims: immigrants.

“We have such a chasm between rhetoric and reality,” said Martina Vandenberg, founder of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, a network of attorneys who take on trafficking cases. “This administration is undermining protections carefully built for trafficking victims over two decades.” Continue reading.

‘Sit this one out’: Ivanka Trump’s complaint about ‘smug ridicule’ of nation’s ‘elites’ hilariously backfires

AlterNet logoIvanka Trump complained about coastal elites to defend her father — and was swiftly met with furious mockery.

The White House adviser and eldest daughter of President Donald Trump shared a video clip of former Republican strategist Rick Wilson ridiculing the president’s “credulous boomer rube” supporters, and complained the attack was derogatory and unfair.

“You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided,” Ivanka Trump tweeted. “The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting.” Continue reading.