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Oct 6, 2019

Ivanka amended financial disclosure forms six times in one month

If you choose to be a senior WH adviser you owe transparency to the public. Ivanka wants all of the perks but none of the responsibilities of her WH role 🐷 "The public financial disclosure reports for 2018 showed that Kushner amended his financial disclosure five times, including four times in the last month, and that Ivanka Trump amended her financial disclosure eight times, including six times in the past month” a report from Newsweek explained." ... "The Office of Gove

Oct 6, 2019

The President lashes out at Nordstrom for dropping his daughter's clothing line

Nepotism and abuse of power with some stock market manipulation thrown in for good fun. Maybe just "corruption" for short? 🐷 "In January, days before President Trump’s inauguration, his daughter Ivanka Trump declared that she’d be stepping away from her management role at the clothing and shoe brand that bears her name." "And yet, on Wednesday, the president lashed out on Twitter at department store Nordstrom over its decision to stop carrying Ivanka Trump products, saying

Oct 6, 2019

Tax Crimes in Inauguration Scam?

$40 million unaccounted for from Trump’s inaugural committee 🐷 "The scam appears to be fairly basic. The Trumps raised money for the inauguration and then funneled those funds through the Trump Organization and back into their own pockets. Ivanka Trump was both a Trump Organization executive and a member of the executive committee on the transition team.She appears to have been overcharging for space at the Trump Hotel in violation of tax laws, with the Trump family taking

Oct 6, 2019

Jared and Ivanka's luxury vacations are costing taxpayers a fortune

Selfish, spoiled and entitled, Jared and Ivanka run up the bill and leave taxpayer's holding the bag - not just for the Secret Service's time, but for agents' lodging, meals, equipment rental and travel at top dollar 🐷 "In August, Ivanka and Jared embarked on a long weekend getaway to the town of Rio San Juan, and they did so in VIP style. And American taxpayers footed the bill. According to documents obtained by Quartz, the first of two charges made to the government for

Oct 6, 2019

Saudis and the UAE donated $100 Million to Ivanka fund

Coincidentally, Trump let MBS skate on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi 🐷 "Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will donate a combined $100 million to a World Bank fund for women entrepreneurs that was the brainchild of Ivanka Trump." ... "The donation raised some eyebrows, since candidate Trump regularly excoriated the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from repressive Middle East regimes such as Saudi Arabia." "USA Today quoted a June

Oct 5, 2019

#UnwantedIvanka thinks she is qualified to negotiate for America with world leaders

Despite having no qualifications, no knowledge, no briefings and a bogus security clearance (and being mired in conflicts of interest), Ivanka indulges her ego by playing Princess President on the phone with world leaders. 🐷 "One individual with firsthand knowledge of how the Trump calls with foreign leaders are handled said the president “hates” such “pre-briefs” and frequently has refused to do them. Trump doesn’t like written background materials either, preferring to h

Oct 5, 2019

Jared and Ivanka made at least $82 million in outside income

Ethics rules and conflicts of interest are for the little people, apparently 🐷 "Trump earned $3.9 million from her stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington and more than $2 million in severance from the Trump Organization, while Kushner reported over $5 million in income from Quail Ridge, a Kushner Cos. apartment complex acquired last year in Plainsboro, N.J. "The filings show how the couple are collecting immense sums from other enterprises while serving in the

Oct 5, 2019

Ivanka Sued For Allegedly Copying Shoe Designs

Check out these images and decide for yourself 🐷 "The lawsuit states that Trump's line, which is licensed by co-defendant Marc Fisher, is guilty of "repeated infringement" and "deceptive trade practices" by knocking off Aquazzura's "Wild Thing" sandal. Referred to in court documents as one of the brand's best-known and best-selling models, Wild Thing retails for $785. ... "In court filings, Aquazzura said it previously complained to Trump about two other shoes that bear st

Oct 5, 2019

Ivanka thinks all the women accusing her father of sexual assault are lying

Someone who works on women's empowerment issues at the WH should Believe Women. You do you, Ivanka 🐷 "During an interview with the Today show, White House staffer Ivanka Trump said she thinks each of the 14 women who have accused her father of sexual assault are lying. "But Ivanka — who sat down for an interview in Pyeongchang, where she was leading the U.S. delegation during the closing ceremony of the Olympics — didn’t say so directly. ... “I think it’s a pretty inapprop

Oct 5, 2019

Book: Jared and Ivanka are even worse than we thought

Opportunists and enablers, enriching themselves 🐷 "Jared and Ivanka were either unable or unwilling to get in the way of Trump’s worst impulses, from the caging of children at the U.S.–Mexico border to his ban of transgender troops in the military. Now, a new book from journalist Vicky Ward makes the case that Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law haven’t just sat by idly as Trump has upended liberal democracy in the U.S., they’ve enabled him." ... "But the bulk of the bo

Oct 5, 2019

America was originally told Ivanka would have no role in the Trump Administration

That turned out to be a lie and now WH advisers Jared and Ivanka continue to avoid questions about ethics and national security rules 🐷 "In January 2017, as Jared Kushner received approval from the Office of Government Ethics to allow him to work in the White House, it was initially reported that Ivanka Trump would not take a formal role in the administration. After it was announced in late March 2017 that she would officially become a federal employee in the White House,

Oct 4, 2019

Sweet boondoggle: Front row at the Olympics! Thanks, Daddy!

We all know no one is more suited or deserving to be America's lead VIP at the Winter Olympics than...the president's daughter. She skis. 🐷 "The diplomatic mission comes at a pivotal moment for the Korean Peninsula, as the Democratic People’s Republic in the north races to assemble nuclear weapons capable of striking the United States (to say nothing of the Trump Organization’s luxury-condominium development in Seoul). While President Trump initially weighed sending his wif

Oct 4, 2019

Ivanka cuts off Cosmo interview after tough questions

She fled the interview. 🐷 "But the candidate's daughter bristled when interviewer Prachi Gupta asked, "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?" "So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions," Ivanka Trump said, according to Cosmopolitan's transcript. "So I don't know how useful it is to spe

Oct 4, 2019

Ivanka's billionaire landlord may get permission for copper mine near pristine MN wilderness area

Abrupt reversal of government policy - the American people deserve the full story 🐷 "Beginning in the early weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency, the administration worked at a high level to remove roadblocks to the proposed mine, government emails and calendars show, overruling concerns that it could harm the Boundary Waters, a vast landscape of federally protected lakes and forests along the border with Canada. ... "Just before Mr. Trump took office, Mr. Luksic added a person

Oct 4, 2019

Unaccountable, unqualified Ivanka didn’t belong anywhere near the DMZ

"Who benefits most from her government role — the American people or her family?" 🐷 ... "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." "Ivanka Trump’s self-placement at the table with global heads of state is not an example of the ascension of a professional wom

Oct 2, 2019

Ivanka claims to have shut down her brand - but did she really?

Her brand is still making trademark applications 🐷 "A former director of the Office for Government Ethics has questioned whether Ivanka Trump has really "shut down" her brand and revealed his interest in seeing her next financial disclosure." "Walter Shaub yesterday tweeted that it was "funny" the brand owned by the president's daughter and adviser did not cease making trademark applications after it was apparently shuttered in July last year." "The former government ethics

Oct 2, 2019

How Ivanka's team gets her out of bad press

Ivanka avoids accountability on a cloud of puff press, and she's not afraid to personally strong-arm outlets to get the flattering "reporting" she wants 🐷 "On Aug. 16, 2016, just a few weeks after his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, had clinched the Republican nomination for president, Esquire magazine ran a story entitled “Jared Kushner’s Second Act.” It was written by veteran journalist Vicky Ward and exposed a number of less-than-flattering details about the then 35-year-

Oct 2, 2019

Is Ivanka lying about her father's drug problem to protect her own privilege?

May 5, 2016 photo of Trump's office reveals stash of Sudafed in drawer 🐷 "Do you remember this picture? Back during the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump decided to tweet out a picture of him enjoying a "taco bowl" from the Trump Tower Grill as evidence of how much he loved Hispanics." "Leave aside the gratuitous racism, the fake Oscars, the newspaper clipping of ex-wife Marla Maples in a bikini, and the messy desk (a distinct difference from his Oval Office desk), there is somet

Oct 1, 2019

Vacationing with Russian oligarchs

So Jared and Ivanka were vacationing with a Russian oligarch (Dmitry Rybolovlev?) in Dubrovnik in summer 2016. The same one who bought Trump's Palm Beach mansion in 2008 for $95 million?? 🐷 "Bannon told FBI investigators that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were on vacation in Croatia with a “Russian billionaire” in August 2016 — appearing to confirm a long-suspected and long-denied connection between Trump world and a Russian oligarch." "Messages between Bannon and an unnam

Sep 28, 2019

Ivanka's baby voice is just an act

Ivanka is nothing if not manipulative. 🐷 "Despite what Americans and voters see on television, the Ivanka Trump in real life is a little different than the person who is splashed across screens." "Trump, the president’s eldest daughter, has a voice that’s an “octave” deeper when in private; vacillates between “defiant” and “lighthearted”; and curses like her father, Donald Trump, and her husband and fellow senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, according to the Washingt

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