Tag: Ivanka Trump

Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld

The “first daughter” spent years rigorously cultivating her image. But she wasn’t prepared for scrutiny.

You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me. Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump. “Oh!” the president said. “Ivanka!”

Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished. “I forgot you guys were meeting—I was just coming by!” she said. “Uh-oh!”

The first daughter (though not the only daughter), wearing a fitted black mockneck and black pants, her golden hair fastened in a low twist, glided across the Oval Office. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and it was apparently vital to inform Trump, at that very moment, that Siemens had pledged to expand its education and training opportunities to more workers as part of Ivanka’s workforce-development initiative. She also wanted to remind him that tomorrow would be the inaugural session of the program’s advisory board, and that Tim Cook would be joining the meeting.

View the complete April 12 article by Elaina Plott on The Atlantic website here.

 

‘Naive and reckless’: Biographer exposes Jared and Ivanka’s ‘self-importance’ — and how they infuriated the White House counsel

The latest revelations about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s use of private email and messaging apps in the White House of is yet another example of how thoroughly unqualified President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter are for their current roles, said journalist Vicky Ward in conversation with Ari Melber on MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Thursday — and of how they simply don’t care about how sensitive White House business is.

“These are two people who are naive and reckless because they have an extraordinary sense of self-importance,” said Ward. “They are extraordinarily unaware. They are disdainful of rules, they think that rules are for other people.”

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‘My Dad’s Not a Racist’: Book Describes Ivanka Trump’s Defense After Charlottesville

WASHINGTON — When Gary D. Cohn was considering resigning as the top White House economic adviser after President Trump blamed “both sides” in a deadly white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., his first stop was a meeting with Mr. Trump’s children.

In a conversation in August 2017 with Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and senior adviser, Mr. Cohn was shocked by her reaction to his concerns, according to a new book about Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

“My dad’s not a racist; he didn’t mean any of it,” Ms. Trump said of the president’s refusal to condemn white nationalists outright. Appearing to channel her father, she added, “That’s not what he said.”

View the complete March 11 article by Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman on The New York Times website here.

3 things to watch: Trump kids, associates eye pleading the Fifth as Dems bore in

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WH counsel’s letter to Rep. Cummings reveals legal strategy to fight probes

ANALYSIS — It was a remarkable 24-hour reversal, with President Donald Trump first saying Monday he cooperates with “everybody” before turning to an unlikely source for a precedent to reject House Democrats’ demands for reams of documents: Barack Obama.

House Democratic chairmen of committees in the embryonic stages of investigations into all things Trump have requested documents from and interviews with a long list of individuals and entities related to the president’s time in office, 2016 campaign and business dealings. Trump seemed willing to, at least in some form, comply with some of those requests when he said this on Monday: “I cooperate all the time, with everybody.”

But by the next afternoon, it appeared the president had been trying to buy time for his aides to determine the extent to which they believe the law will require White House compliance. As he often does — even as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told House Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings that “we are prepared to continue negotiations in good faith” — the president went to the most extreme option, appearing to reverse himself.

View the complete March 6 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.

Report: Trump Intervened To Fix Top Secret Clearance For Ivanka

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President Donald Trump pressured both ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly and ex-White House Counsel Don McGahn to give his daughter and top adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance, according to a new report from CNN. When neither of them succumbed to his demands, however, he ended up granting the clearance himself, the report found.

The revelation that the president had to intervene on his daughter’s behalf comes as the White House faces increasing scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives.

The New York Times recently reported that Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, also needed the president to intervene on his behalf to get a security clearance. CNN found that although concerns about either spouse could have endangered the others’ chances to get a clearance, the officials who typically approve security clearances had concerns about both of them individually.

View the complete March 5 article by Cody Fenwick on the National Memo website here.

Did Ivanka Trump create ‘millions’ of jobs?

During a meeting with U.S. governors, President Trump claimed his daughter created millions of jobs. (Joy Yi/The Washington Post)

“My daughter Ivanka, who is going to be speaking later, is — she has been so much involved. So incredibly involved. My daughter has created millions of jobs. I don’t know if anyone knows that, but she’s created millions of jobs.”

— President Trump, remarks to U.S. governors, Feb. 25, 2019

These remarks from the president raised eyebrows — and inquiries from readers. The U.S. economy has added almost 4.9 million jobs since Trump became president, but regular readers know we would frown on the idea that any president himself “created” these jobs.

Now, he says his daughter Ivanka Trump created jobs. What is he talking about?

View the complete February 27 article by Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.

Ivanka Trump, who receives millions for existing, says Americans don’t want guaranteed living wage

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“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something.”

In an interview with Fox News on Monday night, Ivanka Trump said most Americans do not support a guaranteed minimum wage because they don’t “want to be given something.”

“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get,” she said. “So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job. They want the ability to live in a country where there’s the potential for upward mobility.”

The president’s eldest daughter, who along with her husband Jared Kushner earned at least $82 million in outside income while serving as senior White House advisers in 2017, was responding to a question about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal legislation, which offers a blueprint on how to rapidly decarbonize the U.S. economy in roughly a decade. The proposal also includes a job guarantee program that would provide a living wage to workers.

View the complete February 26 article by Elham Khatami on the ThinkProgress website here.

Watch Ivanka Trump’s Mortifying Moment During Merkel’s Speech In Munich

The Munich Security Conference on Saturday drew a lot of attention as Vice President Mike Pence’s fiery calls for Europe to stand with President Donald Trump was awkwardly met with zero applause whatsoever.

But another moment that was awkward for the president came when German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a scorching condemnation of the U.S. trade war —and Trump’s daughter Ivanka, sitting in the crowd, could only look on in stone-cold silence as the leader of one of America’s major allies ripped her father’s economic policy to pieces.


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“Apparently, the American secretary of trade says German cars are a threat to America’s national security,” said Merkel. “We’re proud of our automotive industry, and, I think we can be, we’re proud of our cars. They are built in the United States of America. South Carolina is one of the largest — it’s actually the largest BMW plant. Not in Bavaria. South Carolina is supplying China.”

View the complete February 18 article by Matthew Chapman on the National Memo website here.

Ivanka Trump’s empowerment plan aims to help 50 million women. So far, $50 million has been pledged.

Members of the Trump family, including Ivanka Trump, center, attended the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Credit: Toni L. Sandys, The Washington Post)

This article has been updated to include response from the White House.

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the president and a senior White House adviser, announced a new global effort Thursday to help 50 million women in the developing world by 2025.

“This new initiative will for the first time coordinate America’s commitment to one of the most undervalued resources in the developing world — the talent, ambition and genius of women,” Trump wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that announced the news. For the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, the U.S. government will team up with several private companies such as UPS and Pepsi to “facilitate complementary private-sector investments to achieve our shared goals,” Trump said.

But despite the initiative’s ambitions, it is unclear how the White House-led fund would fit into the president’s broader skepticism about foreign aid. Notably, government funding for the project will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — an organization whose funding President Trump has repeatedly tried to cut.

View the complete February 9 article by Adam Taylor on The Washington Post website here.

Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle

The Trump International Hotel, Washington, DC. Credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images

As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law.

When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all that money went.

It turns out one beneficiary was Trump himself.

The inauguration paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space at the company’s Washington hotel, according to interviews as well as internal emails and receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica.

View the complete December 14 article by Ilya Marritz with WNYC and Justin Elliott with ProPublica on the ProPublica website here.