Tag: Ivanka Trump

‘A princess diplomat’: New report reveals how Ivanka Trump got conservatives ‘bowing at her feet’

AlterNet logoIt remains to be seen whether or not President Donald Trump will win a second term in 2020. But whether he remains in the White House until January 2021 or January 2025, a new report by Vanessa Grigoriadis for New York Magazine found that the political ambitions of his 37-year-old daughter, Ivanka Trump, go beyond the current administration.

According to Grigoriadis’ article, the president’s daughter envisions a future that is “post–White House, post–New York, even post-America” and that of “a princess diplomat astride the globe.”

But it probably doesn’t involve a return to her home town, New York City.

Members of the Trump administration, Grigoriadis notes, have come and gone. Yet Ivanka Trump and her husband, fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner, have remained — and she has stayed longer than other Trump allies who didn’t want the pair around.

View the complete August 5 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.

Here’s why Ivanka Trump’s role at the G-20 summit was so unsettling. And it wasn’t just about nepotism.

Washington Post logoThis weekend, Ivanka Trump — prized first daughter, presidential sounding board, sometime diplomat — managed to ignite the rage of the Internet by just doing her job.

Wait, what job is that exactly? Officially, the 37-year-old is a senior adviser to the president, who happens to be her dear old dad, Donald J. Trump. In practice, she seems to have unlimited responsibilities. And her “Where’s Waldo?” appearance at the 2019 G-20 summit in Japan — there she is smizing with Shinzo Abe! holding her own with Theresa May! saying stuff in front of Christine Lagarde! — was further evidence of just how far her sphere extends.

The nature of Ivanka’s job would be enough, in a normal profession, to drive an HR manager to tears. It’s not simply that she got her role through nepotism, explains Jennifer Lawless, professor of politics at the University of Virginia. It’s the fact that she now seems to have so much power with zero accountability: “She’s not secretary of state, but she’s acting like she has the same clout as Mike Pompeo. She is not a formal diplomat, but she’s the one having formal conversations.”

View the complete July 3 column by Helena Andrews-Dyer on The Washington Post website here.

Lawsuit over Trump tax evasion in Panama takes a strange turn

Disputes about confidentiality rankle both sides as the lawsuit moves forward.

From suspicions of money laundering, to watching his name vanish from the building’s facade, President Donald Trump’s former property in Panama has long served as one of the main headaches for the president’s ongoing business struggles since his ascension to the presidency.

Now, an ongoing lawsuit threatens to open a new chapter in the saga of the former Trump Ocean Club property — and fresh questions about the building’s finances.

The building, over which Ivanka Trump helped oversee construction and development, transferred to new owners last year, with Trump’s name being removed wholesale from the building. Led by majority owner Orestes Fintiklis, the new owners recently filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging that they’d uncovered financial records showing that the Trump Organization had spent years dodging Panamanian taxes.

View the complete July 2 article by Casey Michel on the ThinkProgess website here.

Why Ivanka Trump didn’t belong anywhere near the DMZ or the G-20 summit

Washington Post logoWho benefits most from her government role — the American people or her family?

Since President Trump took office, the White House has been pushing the boundaries of what the American public will tolerate in terms of family involvement in presidential decision-making, intermingling of official government business with Trump’s private businesses and development of foreign policy strategy. (After all, the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, just released a Middle East peace plan.) But even by Trump’s low standards, this past week broke new ground.

The president put forth his daughter Ivanka as a stand-in for actual diplomats and government officials at several high-level meetings and interactions with world leaders at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, and at meetings in South Korea and the demilitarized zone on the North Korea-South Korea border. Ivanka Trump was by the president’s side for his visit to the DMZ, while his national security adviser, John Bolton, was dispatched to Mongolia. A video showed her apparently trying to join a conversation among French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde in an encounter that looked as though she thought she was at a Hamptons cocktail party. The first daughter was later introduced alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit with U.S. troops in South Korea.

This ascension of family-directed foreign affairs is an unhealthy development for our democracy. And Ivanka Trump ought to back off: Americans didn’t elect her, we don’t have any way of holding her accountable and we don’t support her playacting at government.

View the complete July 2 article by Carrie Cordero on The Washington Post website here.

Former White House Republican blasts Ivanka’s ‘sad and pitiful’ attempts to break onto the world stage

AlterNet logoFormer White House aide Elise Jordan was shocked by Ivanka Trump’s prominent participation over the weekend at the G-20 summit in Japan.

President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter — who is also a senior White House adviser — and her husband Jared Kushner took part in meetings with other nations, and was seen in a viral video awkwardly trying to insert herself in private conversations with world leaders.

“I absolutely can’t believe it,” said Jordan, who served in George W. Bush’s administration. “Having served around so many incredibly talented diplomats and government officials, that she just gets to waltz up on the stage as if she’s secretary of state without any Senate confirmation process, and has so much unadulterated power at her fingertips.”

View the complete July 1 article by Travis Gettys from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

 

‘Surreal’: Ivanka Trump plays a prominent role in her father’s historic Korea trip

Washington Post logoFew Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom.

On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them, capping a consequential three-day Asian trip in which the president’s eldest daughter played a very public role that blended family ties with diplomatic work that is usually performed by diplomats.

She pronounced the short walk to the other side of one of the world’s most fortified borders “surreal.”

View the complete June 30 article by Anne Gearan on The Washington Post website here.

#UnwantedIvanka Is The Latest Trump Family Meme

The cold-shouldered response to her interrupting politicians at the G20 summit has seen her photoshopped into other political events beyond her reach

Ivanka Trump’s presence on the global stage often prompts questions of what exactly her role as advisor to her father President Donald Trump entails, as well as jokes about her participating in ‘Bring Your Daughter To Work’ days.

The First Daughter attended the G20 Summit in Osaka this weekend for an event on women’s empowerment, following the launch of the initiative launched two years ago. However, the moment which has attracted the most attention was a clip of her repeatedly interrupting a conversation between world leaders, and their bemused reactions.

In an Instagram Story uploaded by the French Presidential palace, clearly purveyors of political satire, Ivanka can be seen on the fringe of the conversation between French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and head of the IMF Christine Lagarde.

View the complete July 1 article by Olivia Ovenden on The Esquire website here.

Ivanka Trump Earned $4 Million During 2018 From Trump International Hotel

First daughter Ivanka Trump earned $4 million in 2018 from her investment in the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital, according to her personal financial disclosure, released by the White House on Friday and reported on by Bloomberg News.

Trump’s D.C. hotel has been an ethical nightmare ever since he entered the Oval Office.

Multiple entities are suing, saying Trump is violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution by profiting off the foreign governments who book rooms in the hotel while visiting Washington, D.C. — possibly in an attempt to influence Trump.

View the complete June 14 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.

‘Profound ignorance’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace explains why Jared and Ivanka are ‘the rot’ inside the White House

Jared Kushner gave a disastrous interview to Axios’ Jonathan Swan as shown in the second season premiere of the outlet’s HBO series, which was released over the weekend. And the president’s son-in-law and top advisers is now getting appropriately raked over the coals.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace tore into Kushner on Monday during a panel discussion on her show “Deadline: White House.” She zeroed in on Kushner and Ivanka as two of the major deleterious forces within the administration.

She noted how Kushner “drove Rex Tillerson out of the administration. He repelled top-tier talent for the chief of staff job. It would seem to be that if there’s rot in this White House, the malignancy is Jared and Ivanka.”

View the complete June 3 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

Ivanka Trump’s Landlord May be ‘Trying to Buy Her Silence’ on Sulfide Mine Threatening Clean Water: Bush Ethics Chief

A former chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush raised concerns Saturday that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s billionaire landlord could be trying to influence the senior White House advisers in a manner that would help him to build a sulfide mine in Minnesota that environmentalists call a threat to clean water.

The ex-White House ethics chief, University of Minnesota law professor Richard Painter, shared a recent City Pagesstory about the Chilean copper conglomerate Antofagasta’s plans to build a sulfide-ore mine in Minnesota’s Rainy River watershed, which drains into the protected Boundary Waters wilderness area.

Antofagasta is owned by Chilean businessman Andrónico Luksic, who bought a $5.5 million mansion in Washington, D.C., shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Luksic now rents that Kalorama neighorhood home to the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner for $15,000 per month, according to The Wall Street Journal.

View the complete May 4 article by Erica Kwong on the Newsweek website here.