Walter Shaub, the Obama-appointed former director of the Office of Government Ethics, tried to manufacture controversy surrounding President Donald Trump&#8217;s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, last week by suggesting that there was something potentially nefarious about China granting her a trademark for voting machines.
&#8220;China gave Ivanka Trump a trademark for voting machines while she was committing nepotism in the White House,&#8221; Shaub, who recently was a CNN contributor, wrote on Twitter. &#8220;America still waits for an explanation.&#8221;
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China gave Ivanka Trump a trademark for voting machines while she was committing nepotism in the White House. America still waits for an explanation.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) <a href="https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1182673790733553664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) noted that Ivanka&#8217;s business applied for the trademarks in 2016 and that the trademarks covered a multitude of items, not just voting machines.
&#8220;The newest Chinese trademarks cover fashion items including handbags, shoes, wedding dresses, and jewelry. (Ivanka’s business has previously relied on a Chinese manufacturer to supply handbags, shoes, and clothing.) The trademarks also cover items including nursing homes, sausage casing, and voting machines,&#8221; CREW reported. &#8220;Ivanka’s business applied for these trademarks in 2016.&#8221;
A further review of the application that Ivanka&#8217;s business <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/05191659/Ivanka-October-2018-China-Trademarks.pdf">filed</a> with the Chinese government shows that it was filed on March 8, 2016, which was months before then-presidential candidate Donald Trump even secured the GOP nomination for president.
Multiple sources that are highly connected in the Washington, D.C., political scene and who have extensive experience working in legal settings tell The Daily Wire that, while there are some people who genuinely have questions about the trademarks, Shaub is not one of them.
Rather, these sources allege that Shaub was being intentionally deceptive. They claim that he knows that trade infringement is so common in China that it is standard business practice for American businesses to trademark an entire batch of products, which in this case included the voting machines.
Even Snopes, a far-left fact-check website, reported, &#8220;Although Ivanka Trump’s now reportedly shut-down brand may hold a variety of trademarks in China, it’s unlikely she’ll be involved in manufacturing sausage casings or voting machines in the foreseeable future.&#8221;
Intellectual property theft, which includes trademarks, is a major problem in China as the communist nation has stolen massive amounts of intellectual property from the U.S. for decades, which has been something that the Trump administration has been addressing in its trade talks with China.
&#8220;IP theft — use of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights without permission — may seem dry to many. But it represents big money. Intangible assets, which include IP, make up 80% of the value of S&amp;P 500 companies, according to the Harvard Business Review,&#8221; Forbes <a href="https://fortune.com/2019/03/01/china-ip-theft/">reported</a>. &#8220;IP theft may not seem the same as taking physical property, but it represents either a loss of opportunity or of competitive advantage that reduces the money a company could have made. The U.S. Trade Representative has estimated the annual loss to China at between $225 billion and $600 billion, according to CNN.&#8221;
&#8220;There are different ways Chinese companies reportedly obtain U.S. IP. Corporate espionage and cyberattacks are two, according to Axios,&#8221; Forbes added. &#8220;But so is forced technology transfers, in which the Chinese government compels companies investing in China to provide IP details and licenses.&#8221;

Walter Shaub

Ex-Obama Official, CNN Employee Tries To Manufacture Controversy Over Ivanka Trump Trademark, Sources Say

Barack Obama

China

Ivanka Trump

On Sunday, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who famously portrayed Luke Skywalker, went after White House advisor and First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her children for a Star Wars-themed tweet. 
Ivanka posted a photo of her family on Saturday wherein her youngest son, three-year-old Theodore, was dressed as a Stormtrooper. She captioned the post, “The Force is strong in my family.” 
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The Force is strong in my family. ⭐️ <a href="https://t.co/oT0jFfy5Lb">pic.twitter.com/oT0jFfy5Lb</a>
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1178127374078140416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This was enough to set off the actor-turned-left-wing Twitter troll. “You misspelled ‘Fraud,’” Hamill wrote, adding the hashtag #GoForceYourself.”
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You misspelled &quot;Fraud.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoForceYourself?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoForceYourself</a> <a href="https://t.co/ORY6eeyGgj">https://t.co/ORY6eeyGgj</a>
&mdash; Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1178394628464070656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Targeting a three-year-old child is pretty extreme, even for someone who hates President Donald Trump and Ivanka as much as Hamill seems to. Some folks disturbed by the post reacted in the replies. 
“You sure owned those kids, Mark,” said popular political Twitter account Neontaster, who has over 100,000 followers. “Good one.”
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You sure owned those kids, Mark. Good one.
&mdash; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1178402274688851968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s a child in a Star Wars costume, Mark,” former MTV reality star Chet Cannon reminded Mr. Hamill. 
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It’s a child in a Star Wars costume, Mark
&mdash; Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/1178411338697039872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Come on man,” Human Events’ Ian Miles Cheong wrote. 
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Come on man.
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1178402789585645568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Dude, don&#8217;t get mad at kids for liking Star Wars,” remarked Andrew Follett, a research analyst at The Club for Growth.  
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Dude, don&#39;t get mad at kids for liking Star Wars. <a href="https://t.co/qQ7R6yo87x">pic.twitter.com/qQ7R6yo87x</a>
&mdash; Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1178405505045270529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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@PopularOpinion, a well-known political Twitter account with over 22,000 followers, outlined the interaction as such: 
<blockquote>Ivanka: Look at our kids being cute.
Weird old man: GO F*** YOURSELF
Bluecheck resistance grifters: If I may say, you are basically Oscar Wilde, sir.</blockquote>
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Ivanka: Look at our kids being cute.
Weird old man: GO FUCK YOURSELF
Bluecheck resistance grifters: If I may say, you are basically Oscar Wilde, sir.
&mdash; prop op (@ProperOpinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProperOpinion/status/1178462007403655168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Still, the tweet was a hit with most of the anti-Trump Twitter world, garnering nearly half a million likes. Others cheered on Hamill for the tweet in the replies, too. 
HuffPo contributor Kimberley Johnson enthusiastically posted her support: “I cannot love [Mark Hamill] more for this perfect tweet. #GoForceYourself,” she wrote.
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I cannot love <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HamillHimself</a> more for this perfect tweet. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoForceYourself?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoForceYourself</a>
&mdash; Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuthorKimberley/status/1178406248951222273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Mommy, why does Luke Skywalker hate us? Because we are terrible, terrible people, son,” mocked Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko. 
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Mommy, why does Luke Skywalker hate us? Because we are terrible, terrible people, son.
&mdash; Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1178396368211193858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“The farce is strong in this family,” biographer Brian Jay Jones added on. 
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The farce is strong in this family.
&mdash; Brian Jay Jones (@brianjayjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianjayjones/status/1178394875932413953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Producer Kim Sherrell told Hamill, “Well played, sir,” and added a number hashtags: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoForceYourself?src=hashtag_click">#GoForceYourself</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IvankaTrump?src=hashtag_click">#IvankaTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fraud?src=hashtag_click">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpCrimeFamily?src=hashtag_click">#TrumpCrimeFamily</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GFY?src=hashtag_click">#GFY</a>.&#8221;
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Well played, sir. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoForceYourself?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoForceYourself</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IvankaTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IvankaTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fraud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpCrimeFamily?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpCrimeFamily</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GFY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GFY</a> <a href="https://t.co/c7wOqx70KQ">pic.twitter.com/c7wOqx70KQ</a>
&mdash; 🏝 Kim (@kim) <a href="https://twitter.com/kim/status/1178412992469204992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Hamill’s extreme hatred for President Trump has been promoted by the Left on numerous occasions, including in a special Christmas write-up from The Washington Post last December. Unsurprisingly, Hamill has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/luke-skywalker-asked-compare-trump-darth-vader-you-james-barrett">said</a> Trump is worse than fictional Star Wars villain Darth Vader. 
“Listen, I really get upset then when people compare [Trump] or even Dick Cheney to Darth Vader … ’cause Darth Vader repented. He saw the error of his ways. I don’t see either one of them doing that,” Hamill told the Post.
Hamill also made news for his hatred for Republicans back in March. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-hamill-blasts-mike-lee-using-star-wars-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a>, the actor took a shot a Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for daring to use Star Wars imagery to fight freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s radical Climate Change proposal dubbed the &#8220;Green New Deal.&#8221;
“I was foolish to think this was photoshopped. Had I recognized that this guy was a Republican, I would have instantly realized this was his argument against Global Warming. #CongressSmellsBadOnTheInside,” Hamill posted to Twitter, captioning a photo of Sen. Lee using the Star Wars imagery. 
Hamill later added via Twitter, “I’m using an oversized photo of [Senator Mike Lee] as a prop to push my #MAGA (#MoronsAlwaysGaslightAmericans) #TrustTheScientists agenda. #ClimateChange.”

Ivanka Trump and her children

Ivanka Posts Pic Of 3-Year-Old Son In Star Wars Costume; Luke Skywalker Actor Lashes Out

Mark Hamill

Star Wars

First Daughter and advisor to the president Ivanka Trump — who is known to have the ear of the president — is quietly speaking to Congress to help craft passable gun control measures, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/ivanka-trump-gun-control-background-checks-de7f4d65-dea5-4388-989b-0182a9301800.html">Axios</a>.
Aside from her inside dealings, Ivanka has publicly pushed &#8220;red flag&#8221; laws and stricter background checks.
&#8220;Ivanka Trump spoke last Wednesday to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), while he was vacationing in Hawaii, to get an update on the bipartisan background checks bill he proposed with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.),&#8221; Axios reports. &#8220;The measure, which was initially introduced in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, would expand background checks to nearly all commercial firearm sales.&#8221;
An aide for the West Virginia Democrat told the outlet that Ivanka &#8220;called Manchin and said she was trying to get a sense of what bills are out there. She had him explain how they drafted the bill, where it stands and what changes needed to be made in order for it to pass.&#8221;
Ivanka &#8220;has trusted relationships on both sides of the aisle and she is working in concert with the White House policy and legislative teams,&#8221; a White House official told Axios.
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Ivanka took to social media to voice her support for gun control measures, while stressing that she is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, a common refrain of most gun control proponents.
In an <a href="https://imgix.elitedaily.com/uploads/image/2019/8/5/d2944d67-831e-45bc-8ab6-c45ed1abcb29-screen-shot-2019-08-05-at-101149-am.png?w=610&amp;fit=max&amp;auto=format&amp;q=70&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top#_ga=2.96107482.751368871.1565790349-189455556.1565790349">Instagram story</a>, for example, the president&#8217;s daughter urged Congress to &#8220;enact Red Flag laws/Extreme Risk Protection Orders in every state, increase resources dedicated to mental health support nationwide and close background check loopholes. … You can strongly support and defend the 2nd Amendment while calling for these common sense, and long-overdue reforms.&#8221;
Similarly, in a tweet posted last Sunday, Ivanka wrote, &#8220;Congress should enact Red Flag laws/ Extreme Risk Protection Orders in EVERY state and increase resources dedicated to mental health support.&#8221;
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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1158064289816727553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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However, there is no evidence that red flag laws are effective and opponents warn that they would violate due process rights. According to <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/red-flag-laws-are-the-wrong-solution-to-mass-shootings/">National Review</a>, data from 1970 through 2017 shows that red flag laws &#8220;had no significant effect on murder, suicide, mass-public-shooting fatalities, robbery, aggravated assault, or burglary. These laws do not save lives.&#8221;
As Dana Loesch wrote at <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2019/08/06/red-flag-laws-not-good-solution-mass-shootings/">The Federalist</a>, the measures are &#8220;an abrogation of due process to invert the order of &#8216;innocent until proven guilty&#8217; to &#8216;somewhat guilty until proven innocent.'&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Josh Hammer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50404/hammer-conservatives-should-be-very-skeptical-red-josh-hammer">added</a> (emphasis added) that advocates for such laws &#8220;argue that the burden of proof must still fall on the party petitioning to confiscate the respondent&#8217;s firearms — but the procedural reality is that the petitioner is still the first mover and, after that initial move, the onus shifts to the respondent to demonstrate his innocence. That is hardly an exemplary means by which to dispense with a cherished constitutional liberty, and it is made even more egregious in the context of &#8217;emergency&#8217; ex parte (i.e., one-party) proceedings — which GVRO advocates concede will be a reality.&#8221;
As for stricter background checks, according to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/50423/cnn-stronger-background-checks-would-not-have-amanda-prestigiacomo">CNN</a>, they would not have stopped the two mass shootings that have animated Ivanka to quietly press her agenda on Congress.
&#8220;Would strengthening or expanding background checks have prevented the alleged shooters from purchasing firearms?&#8221; CNN posed. The network&#8217;s fact-check admitted that this was &#8220;doubtful&#8221;:
<blockquote>There is no indication that the shooting in Dayton, Ohio, would have been prevented by proposed universal background checks or legislation to bolster the federal background check system. The alleged El Paso, Texas, shooter purchased his firearm legally and there is no evidence that he had a criminal history that a background check would&#8217;ve caught.</blockquote>
For Republicans and conservatives who oppose crackdowns on the Second Amendment, Ivanka&#8217;s involvement will be cause for concern. First, she has the ear of the president, that much is indisputable. Ivanka told <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/ivanka-trump.html">The New York Times</a> in May 2017 about conversations with her father: &#8220;I&#8217;ll go to the mat on certain issues and I may still lose those. But maybe along the way I&#8217;ve modified a position just slightly. And that&#8217;s just great.&#8221; The Times report added: &#8220;Mr. Trump summons Ms. Trump to the Oval Office to ask her questions and hear her ideas. (She calls him &#8216;Dad,&#8217; not &#8216;Mr. President.&#8217;) If he asks his daughter about an unfamiliar subject more than twice, she will often do research so she can develop a view. Sometimes she seeks out Mr. Trump, telling other staff members, &#8216;I need 10 minutes alone with my father.'&#8221;
Additionally, according to Eric Trump, President Donald Trump&#8217;s second son, it was Ivanka who &#8220;influenced&#8221; the president to act in Syria: &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to bomb Syria was influenced by his daughter, Ivanka, being &#8216;heartbroken and outraged&#8217; at the country&#8217;s alleged chemical weapons attack, one of the president&#8217;s sons told a British newspaper,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/eric-trump-says-syria-strike-was-swayed-heartbroken-ivanka-n745021">NBC News</a> noted in April 2017.

Report: Ivanka Pushing Gun Control Measures Behind The Scenes

Donald Trump

Gun Control

Guns

Over the weekend, President Trump once again took to Twitter and sparked yet another firestorm over what Democrats, once again, have determined are &#8220;racist&#8221; comments about a Democratic politician. On the heels of getting embroiled in a bruising feud with &#8220;The Squad&#8221; — both sides branding each other &#8220;racist&#8221; in the process — Trump laid into former Black Caucus Chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) for what Trump portrayed as his egregious neglect of his district, particularly the crime-ridden, &#8220;rat and rodent infested mess&#8221; Baltimore.
The Democrats&#8217; response to Trump&#8217;s attacks on Cummings has been even more furious than with his battle with &#8220;The Squad,&#8221; with Democratic politicians and their allies in the media declaring Trump racist for highlighting Baltimore&#8217;s well-documented problems and singling out Cummings.
But is this part of Trump&#8217;s grand &#8220;strategy&#8221;? Citing unnamed sources &#8220;informed about the discussion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/politics/trump-al-sharpton.html">The New York Times</a> reports that &#8220;several&#8221; White House officials agreed during a senior staff meeting on Monday that Trump&#8217;s attacks on Cummings were a &#8220;bad move&#8221; and are the result of &#8220;impulse,&#8221; not 4-dimensional chess. Officials also told the Times that Trump&#8217;s real reason for targeting Cummings is not the congressman&#8217;s attacks on Border Patrol.
&#8220;Several White House officials expressed agreement during a senior staff meeting on Monday morning that the president’s attacks were a bad move, according to people informed about the discussion, but they were uncertain who could intervene with him — or if anyone would even dare try,&#8221; the Times reported Monday.
The White House officials, the Times reports, &#8220;privately scoffed at the idea that it was strategy rather than impulse, concluding that any political benefit he might derive by revving up his conservative, largely white base could be offset by alienating more moderate voters in the suburbs of states like Wisconsin and Michigan that he needs to win a second term.&#8221;
As for what prompted Trump&#8217;s initial tweets slamming Cummings for allowing Baltimore to become one of the nation&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://patch.com/maryland/baltimore/baltimore-most-rat-infested-cities-list-again-orkin">Rattiest Cities</a>,&#8221; the Times reports that three of the president&#8217;s advisers said he had complained about the congressman repeatedly over the weekend, two of them stating that &#8220;the real source of his ire was the decision by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which Mr. Cummings leads, to authorize subpoenas for all work-related texts and emails sent or received by Mr. Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and senior adviser, on personal accounts.&#8221;
The controversy started Saturday with a series of tweets by Trump. &#8220;Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous,&#8221; Trump tweeted Saturday.
&#8220;His district is considered the Worst in the USA. As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Cumming[s&#8217;] District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place.&#8221;
&#8220;Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen?&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!&#8221;
As Democratic outrage mounted, Trump doubled and tripled down. &#8220;Elijah Cummings spends all of his time trying to hurt innocent people through &#8216;Oversight.&#8217; He does NOTHING for his very poor, very dangerous and very badly run district!&#8221; Trump added in follow-up tweets. &#8220;So sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of Baltimore. Statistically, Baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has done nothing but milk Baltimore dry, but the public is getting wise to the bad job that he is doing!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50008/trump-why-isnt-bernie-racist-making-brutal-comment-james-barrett">Trump: Why Isn’t Bernie A ‘Racist’ For Making This Brutal Comment About Baltimore?</a>

NYT: White House Officials Told Us The Real Reason He’s Attacking Cummings

Elijah Cummings

New York Times

Trump Administration

On Saturday, Ivanka Trump tweeted a picture of the dog she had bought for her eight-year-old daughter Arabella and anti-Trump advocates pilloried her for one reason: the dog was completely white.
Ivanka Trump wrote, “Meet Winter, Arabella’s birthday dream come true and the newest member of the Kushner family!”
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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1152762580152307713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-dog-white-winter-daughter-gift-twitter-1450493?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;__twitter_impression=true">Newsweek</a> noted that Claude Taylor, who worked on the 1992 and 1996 Bill Clinton presidential campaigns and as White House volunteers director, tweeted, “The dog will fit right in. #itswhiteenough.” He was echoed by actress Yvette Nicole Brown, who is black, tweeting, &#8220;Good thing it&#8217;s a white dog. Your dad hates the blacks.&#8221;
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— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1152767473290231808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) <a href="https://twitter.com/YNB/status/1152776902953689089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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American actress Nancy Lee Grahn tweeted, &#8220;How darling. I see you skipped a rescue and went straight to an Aryan breeder. Does it sit and sieg heil yet?&#8221; Rock musician and TV producer Jared Kotler snapped, &#8220;Pro tip: when everyone hates you for being a spoon fed nothing grifter who&#8217;s full of s***, an advisor to the president who doesn&#8217;t advise, when you want to seem human and get a dog, maybe a shelter dog would show humanity. But all white and blue eyes is on brand. F*** off.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">How darling. I see you skipped a rescue and went straight to an Aryan breeder. Does it sit and sieg heil yet?
— Nancy Lee Grahn (@NancyLeeGrahn) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyLeeGrahn/status/1152939630536224773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Pro tip: when everyone hates you for being a spoon fed nothing grifter who’s full of shit, an advisor to the president who doesn’t advise, when you want to seem human and get a dog, maybe a shelter dog would show humanity. But all white and blue eyes is on brand. Fuck off
— Jared Kotler (@Marcy_Kid) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marcy_Kid/status/1152794278256619520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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By now, Ivanka must be thoroughly used to the vitriol directed at her from members of the Left; here are a few examples of how they have taunted her or slammed her since her father began his presidential tenure:
December 2016: A man <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11822/man-accosts-ivanka-flight-screams-her-and-her-kids-hank-berrien">accosted</a> Ivanka and her three children on a Jet Blue flight, yelling at her and taunting her three children. <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2016/12/22/ivanka-trump-flight/">According to TMZ</a>, Ivanka was leaving JFK, seated in the coach area of the plane, when the man, apparently carrying his child, started yelling at her, &#8220;Your father is ruining the country.&#8221; He ranted, &#8220;Why is she on our flight. She should be flying private!&#8221; Various feminists then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11865/feminists-think-ivanka-had-it-coming-when-guy-amanda-prestigiacomo">endorsed</a> the man’s verbal attack.
March 2017: MSNBC host Chris Matthews <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14841/chris-matthews-compares-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-frank-camp">compared</a> Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner to the infamous and vicious sons of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, saying:
<blockquote>Do you think this bothers the country to have sort of a Romanov royal family running the place? Because let me just say, you know, we kid, I kid about everything, but Uday and Qusay working for Saddam Hussein. You couldn’t go to a restaurant and have eye contact with one of those guys without getting killed. These people are really powerful. Imagine getting into a fight in the office with Jared or Ivanka – they have enormous power, and they’re always going to be there.</blockquote>
September 2017: Various feminists, after learning that Ivanka had post-partum depression after each of the births of her three children, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/21421/awful-feminists-tell-ivanka-trump-suffer-after-emily-zanotti">taunted her</a> by telling her to “suffer,” wishing her “misery,” or accusing her of lying.
March 2018: Chelsea Clinton opined that scrutinizing Ivanka for decisions made by the White House was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27905/watch-chelsea-attacking-ivanka-cool-me-hank-berrien">perfectly okay with her,</a> telling Stephen Colbert, ““I think anyone who works for the president should expect to be scrutinized for whatever decisions not only he or she is making, but whatever decisions the White House is making on any given day.”
May 2018: Left-wing political pundits, celebrities, and news organizations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31173/watch-cnn-goes-after-ivanka-trump-photo-holding-amanda-prestigiacomo">targeted</a> Ivanka for posting a photo of herself embracing her 2-year-old son.

Ivanka Gives Her Daughter A Dog. Leftists Viciously Attack Her For One Reason.

First Daughter Ivanka Trump has earned the scorn of Twitter leftists for daring to take part in the G20 trade summit last week in Osaka, Japan, inspiring an &#8220;#UnwantedIvanka&#8221; hashtag meant to suggest that Ivanka is unqualified for her role as a senior adviser in her father&#8217;s administration.
The mockery started last week after a French media outlet released a clip of the First Daughter apparently injecting herself into a discussion between world leaders, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451132-unwantedivanka-trends-after-ivanka-trumps-appearance-at-g20-summit">according to The Hill</a>. The exchange was awkward-seeming (though not nearly as awkward as the Brazilian president <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/videos/6054236484001/Justin-Trudeau-appears-to-be-snubbed-by-Jair-Bolsonaro">denying a handshake to Canadian prime minister</a> Justin Trudeau), and immediately set off the Left, eager to criticize the First Daughter for taking up a spot they believe might have been better left to some other aide.
Starting Sunday, leftists piled on to the &#8220;#UnwantedIvanka&#8221; meme, photoshopping the First Daughter into a handful of historical events, looking as awkward as possible.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Ivanka on the USS Missouri, accepting the Japanese surrender for WWII. <a href="https://t.co/ZRs7b0B10H">pic.twitter.com/ZRs7b0B10H</a>
— Green Mountain Bear (@greenmtnbear) <a href="https://twitter.com/greenmtnbear/status/1145435725573349377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://t.co/AaN20kFBlo">pic.twitter.com/AaN20kFBlo</a>
— Aunt B. (@wagtailfarm) <a href="https://twitter.com/wagtailfarm/status/1145414839789084672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
She also ended up drawing criticism from some of the Left&#8217;s favorite elected officials: Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who both questioned how Ivanka fit into the G20 summit.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I would like to hear Ivanka Trump&#8217;s explanation about this video.
Oh wait, Senior White House Advisor <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> blocked me. Can you forward the below video to her and ask for her response? Thanks.
P.S. Can you also ask her why Jared Kushner still has a security clearance? <a href="https://t.co/qQ4xdrrpyl">https://t.co/qQ4xdrrpyl</a>
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1145198686219038720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification.
It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in &amp; the world moves on.
The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. <a href="https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9">https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145164720242118656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
As The Daily Wire reported Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez got crushed for suggesting that Ivanka Trump might be &#8220;unqualified&#8221; for her role in helping to negotiate global trade agreements, as Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s primary qualification for elective office appears to be time spent in the service industry (though Ocaiso-Cortez also held a handful of low-level political positions and was a progressive activist before being recruited for office by the Justice Democrats).
Oddly enough, though, Ivanka Trump isn&#8217;t &#8220;merely&#8221; the president&#8217;s daughter, nor simply a legacy hire of the Trump Organization, where she worked previous to becoming an administration adviser. Ivanka Trump is well known for leading a global fashion and accessories company that negotiated regularly with at least 18 of the 20 G20 countries.
Before her fashion company folded in 2018 — the stress of maintaining contact with her global brand and serving as an administration big-wig apparently proved too much, and keeping the financial obligations of a major corporation separate from her White House role too complicated — Trump held trademarks in 18 of the 20 countries and oversaw the sourcing, manufacture, and shipping of goods from Asia to the United States.
In fact, leftists were often quick to criticize both Ivanka and her father for their close, personal relationship with some of the most powerful business entities in countries like China, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere, and in some cases, have pursued claims against the White House to end any &#8220;profit&#8221; or benefit that the various Trump-related companies might see from President Donald Trump&#8217;s role as the leader of the free world.
But when it becomes a question of whether Ivanka Trump is &#8220;qualified&#8221; for a role at a global trade conference, history gets a little fuzzy for the Left, apparently.

Leftists Mock Ivanka Trump With &#8216;Unwanted Ivanka&#8217; Meme After First Daughter Shows Up At G20

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was widely mocked over the weekend after she took a shot at the job credentials of President Donald Trump&#8217;s daughter, Ivanka Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender and waitress, was not happy that Ivanka Trump accompanied the president on his trip to the G-20 summit and was <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-g20-summit-video">included</a> in photographs alongside other world leaders.
&#8220;It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in &amp; the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification.
It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in &amp; the world moves on.
The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. <a href="https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9">https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145164720242118656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-says-ivanka-trump-not-a-qualified-diplomat-in-tweet-about-first-daughters-involvement-at-g-20">reported</a> that prior to joining the administration, Ivanka Trump was an executive vice president with the Trump Organization and served as CEO of her own clothing and accessories empire.
During the G-20 Summit, Ivanka Trump &#8220;represented the U.S. in meetings with leaders from China, Japan, Russia, India and Australia,&#8221; and also &#8220;led the U.S. delegation in a special discussion on women’s economic empowerment,&#8221; Fox News added.
Before leaving for the trip, Ivanka Trump noted that the United States was the only country that was bringing a completely female team to negotiate at the G-20.
&#8220;The United States is the only country in the G20 with an entirely female negotiating team representing President Trump and advancing his priorities,&#8221; Ivanka Trump tweeted. &#8220;Looking forward to heading to Japan tomorrow! #G20Japan #WGDP&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">The United States is the only country in the G20 with an entirely female negotiating team representing President Trump and advancing his priorities.
Looking forward to heading to Japan tomorrow! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/G20Japan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#G20Japan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WGDP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WGDP</a>
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1143641719117885443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez was subsequently mocked for attacking Ivanka Trump&#8217;s job credentials as many people pointed out that her most recent job was being a bartender.
Piers Morgan tweeted: &#8220;Could be worse&#8230; Ivanka could have been a bar-tender 18 months ago.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Could be worse&#8230; Ivanka could have been a bar-tender 18 months ago. <a href="https://t.co/xAj8Guc3hH">https://t.co/xAj8Guc3hH</a>
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1145394749064589312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Paris Dennard tweeted: &#8220;Remind us how being a bartender qualified you to be a member of Congress creating laws, voting on bills that impact Americans &amp; the world. Let’s not go there &amp; start comparing your resume to @IvankaTrump’s experience &amp; resume. She also takes no salary. Way to support women&#8230;&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Remind us how being a bartender qualified you to be a member of Congress creating laws, voting on bills that impact Americans &amp; the world.
Let’s not go there &amp; start comparing your resume to <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a>’s experience &amp; resume.
She also takes no salary. Way to support women&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/xM8PBkfyIF">https://t.co/xM8PBkfyIF</a>
— PARIS (@PARISDENNARD) <a href="https://twitter.com/PARISDENNARD/status/1145405919620210693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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John Thomas tweeted: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize being a bar tender was a qualification to be a member of Congress?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I didn&#8217;t realize being a bar tender was a qualification to be a member of Congress? <a href="https://t.co/cWC9zrgXdb">https://t.co/cWC9zrgXdb</a>
— John Thomas (@TheThomasGuide) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheThomasGuide/status/1145185992237699072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Joel Pollak tweeted: &#8220;It&#8217;s OK, you see, for women to undermine other women *if they are Republicans*.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">It&#8217;s OK, you see, for women to undermine other women *if they are Republicans*. <a href="https://t.co/0LKokEd0nG">https://t.co/0LKokEd0nG</a>
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1145208368010649606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Carol Roth tweeted: &#8220;Well, if anyone would know about getting a job with lack of qualifications&#8230;&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Well, if anyone would know about getting a job with lack of qualifications&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/VV9ZiPfP09">https://t.co/VV9ZiPfP09</a>
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) <a href="https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1145355182705991680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jason Rantz tweeted: &#8220;Modern day feminism: tearing down an accomplished woman because she doesn&#8217;t hold your ideological views. But, ya know, she&#8217;s not a bartender so what the hell does Ivanka know anyway?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Modern day feminism: tearing down an accomplished woman because she doesn&#8217;t hold your ideological views.
But, ya know, she&#8217;s not a bartender so what the hell does Ivanka know anyway? <a href="https://t.co/H4WPqlyiCR">https://t.co/H4WPqlyiCR</a>
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1145420200247844864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jessie Jane Duff tweeted: &#8220;This is rich. A woman who was a bartender degrades a woman who had a thriving career prior to joining Office of Economic Initiatives. Ivanka&#8217;s initiatives created millions of opportunities for workers by legislative &amp; Admin action. How many jobs did AOC initiate? Zero. #Amazon&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">This is rich.
A woman who was a bartender degrades a woman who had a thriving career prior to joining Office of Economic Initiatives.
Ivanka&#8217;s initiatives created millions of opportunities for workers by legislative &amp; Admin action.
How many jobs did AOC initiate? Zero. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Amazon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://t.co/EGJJrTgKJf">https://t.co/EGJJrTgKJf</a>
— Jessie Jane Duff (@JessieJaneDuff) <a href="https://twitter.com/JessieJaneDuff/status/1145370899564171264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez Complains About Ivanka Trump’s Job Credentials, Gets Mocked In Response

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

President Donald Trump, members of the Trump family, and the Trump Corporation filed a second lawsuit over House Democrats&#8217; subpoenas Monday, this time in an effort to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One from turning over Trump financial documents to congressional investigators.
Last week, Trump and the Trump Corporation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46270/president-trump-sues-house-democrats-halt-demands-emily-zanotti">filed suit against House Democrats</a>, demanding that a federal court halt Democrats&#8217; flurry of subpoenas to White House officials and Trump Corporation associates and quash a subpoena directed at an accounting firm that handles Trump&#8217;s personal financials. The Trump family also filed a follow-up suit against the accounting firm in an effort to prevent them from complying with any subpoenas that escaped the court&#8217;s control.
Now, the Trump family is moving to stop a series of subpoenas, from the same House Committee, designed to seek information on how and why Deutsche Bank and Capital One continued extending the Trump Corporation lines of credit in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when other financial institutions had clearly blacklisted the company.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-deutsche-bank.html#click=https://t.co/ostwIMb1Kh">The New York Times reports</a> that plaintiffs &#8212; Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and the family&#8217;s privately held corporation &#8212; &#8220;argue that the Democratic House committee leaders who issued the subpoenas engaged in a broad overreach.&#8221;
&#8220;This case involves congressional subpoenas that have no legitimate or lawful purpose,&#8221; the complaint reads. &#8220;The subpoenas were issued to harass President Donald J. Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses and the private information of the president and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage. No grounds exist to establish any purpose other than a political one.&#8221;
Democrats specifically want access to Trump&#8217;s Deutsche Bank accounts, because of a conspiracy theory that has persisted since Trump&#8217;s election: that Russian bigwigs used Deutsche Bank as a clearing house to fund Trump&#8217;s real estate investments, thus explaining why Deutsche Bank was able to lend Trump money even when other banks were backing off.
The Trump family&#8217;s argument in both suits are the same: particularly in light of the Mueller report that cleared the Trump 2016 presidential campaign of any collusion with Russian officials, there&#8217;s no real reason to demand the Trumps&#8217; financial documents other than to embroil the White House in an ongoing defensive campaign.
In previous filings the Trumps are more clear, calling the Democrats&#8217; objective a &#8220;declared all-out political war,&#8221; and subpoenas simply a &#8220;weapon of choice&#8221; in battle.
It&#8217;s not clear how the suit will shake out. Congress is given broad leeway to pull documents and issue subpoenas, but allowing the House Democrats access to decades of financial information that may only be marginally relevant to, say, a possible violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Emoluments Clause, sets a strange precedent.
There&#8217;s also the question of what Democrats really need. So far, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Elijah Cuimmings (D-MD) and others have sent at least 80 subpoenas to Trump affiliates, former White House aides, and &#8220;key witnesses&#8221; to what they believe is Trump malfeasance, and the Democrats promise dozens of investigations over the course of the next two years. At some point, the objective becomes far too broad.
Hearings on both suits are expected in the next few weeks.

Trump Family Sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One To Prevent Them From Complying With Dem Subpoenas

Democratic Party

Donald Trump Jr.

Eric Trump

Last week, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) teamed up with Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) to push for a new proposal for paid family leave.
The New Parents Act was introduced in the House by Crenshaw and Wagner, and the companion legislation was introduced in the Senate by Rubio and Romney. Rubio and Wagner also introduced similar legislation last Congress.
Under their proposal, parents would be able to access a portion of their Social Security early after the birth or adoption of a child to finance three months of leave, according to a <a href="https://crenshaw.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=58">press release</a> distributed by Crenshaw&#8217;s office.
&#8220;It is rare that we get the chance to drastically improve the lives of hard-working families with no long-term impact on our budget,&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;By giving families temporary access to future funds when they&#8217;re growing their family, we are helping Americans when they need it most. This will be a life-changing option.&#8221;
Wagner said that the proposal is important to allow new parents to spend time with their children &#8220;during one of life&#8217;s most precious and exceptional moments.&#8221;
Rubio emphasized that the proposal &#8220;does not raise taxes or expand bureaucracy.&#8221;
&#8220;It is time to realign our economic policies in support of American families, which is why I am proud to re-introduce the New Parents Act.&#8221;
Romney pointed out that his home state is one of two in the country where births are outpacing deaths. &#8220;That means a lot of Utah families are having children, and it also means added expenses for those families,&#8221; Romney said. &#8220;In Utah, and throughout the United States, a majority of working parents do not get paid when they take time off from work after the birth or adoption of a child, which can mean depleted savings, credit card debt, and student loan defaults. The New Parents Act will give parents the flexibility to take time off from work with pay during the first weeks of their children&#8217;s lives, without growing our national debt, raising taxes, or creating a new entitlement program.&#8221;
Last month, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced similar legislation called the Child Rearing and Development Leave Employment (CRADLE) Act, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paid-family-leave-cradle-act-senators-joni-ernst-and-mike-lee-its-time-to-catch-up-with-other-countries/">reported</a>.
A staffer of Crenshaw&#8217;s told The Daily Wire that this proposal is similar to Lee and Ernst&#8217;s but differs in terms of &#8220;repayment options and transferability of the benefit between parents.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarcoRubio/videos/1136266616558290/">press conference</a>, Rubio said he hopes to partner with Lee and Ernst to &#8220;find the final way to approach it.&#8221;
Ivanka Trump has championed this issue since the 2016 campaign where she stood by President Trump as he announced his support for six weeks of government-sponsored maternity leave, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44579/hold-hank-dillon-conservative-case-paid-family-kassy-dillon">reported</a>. The Trump Administration also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44579/hold-hank-dillon-conservative-case-paid-family-kassy-dillon">included</a> paid family leave in the 2019 budget proposal, making Trump the first president to do so.
When President Trump announced his support of paid family leave during the 2019 State of the Union Address, Wagner said she &#8220;stood up and shouted yes,&#8221; during the press conference.
&#8220;We now have a Republican White House willing to work with us on a conservative and responsible solution and I am grateful we&#8217;re having such a robust conversation on how best to support our families.&#8221;
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Rubio, Romney And Crenshaw Team Up To Push For Paid Family Leave

Dan Crenshaw

Marco Rubio

Mitt Romney

CNN&#8217;s Paul Begala made disparaging remarks about President Donald Trump&#8217;s daughter and son-in-law during a segment this week on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper.
The segment centered around a new book that claims that Trump wanted Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner fired from their roles in his administration.
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper asked Begala: &#8220;Is it a sign that loyalty is, is preeminent with the Trumps?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so. No, I think mediocrity is,&#8221; Begala responded. &#8220;And when you&#8217;re too mediocre even for Donald Trump, you really got a problem. And of course they survived. I mean, cockroaches are going to survive a nuclear war.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ryan-foley/2019/03/13/cnns-begala-calls-ivanka-and-jared-cockroaches-president-trump">NewsBusters</a> notes that Begala&#8217;s comments &#8220;could be taken by some as anti-Semitic since Kushner is Jewish and Ivanka converted to Judaism. Begala&#8217;s comparison of the Jewish Kushners to insects closely mirrors the rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who denied that he was anti-Semitic; instead arguing that he was &#8216;anti-termite.'&#8221;
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JAKE TAPPER: We&#8217;re back with our &#8220;Politics Lead.&#8221; Explosive new claims about Trump family drama inside the West Wing from a forthcoming book, Kushner, Inc. by Vicky Ward. According to an excerpt reported by the New York Times, President Trump&#8217;s daughter Ivanka told then White House adviser Gary Cohn &#8220;my dad&#8217;s not a racist&#8221; after the President said both sides were to blame after white supremacists spewing hatred clashed with protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The book also claims the President wanted to send his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter packing and back to New York. But as CNN&#8217;s Kate Bennett reports, representatives for the couple dismissed the claims in this new book as completely false.
KATE BENNETT: Washington buzzing today about a new book that takes a hard look at Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. In Kushner, Inc., writer Vicky Ward focuses on the inner workings of the White House power couple. Part family, part presidential confidant, Ivanka has defended her father after Trump made these infamous remarks following the deadly Charlottesville protests.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think there&#8217;s blame on both sides.
BENNETT: Ward says Ivanka was adamant. &#8220;My dad&#8217;s not a racist&#8230;He didn&#8217;t mean any of it,&#8221; telling then-White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who was rocked by Trump&#8217;s remarks and surprised by Ivanka&#8217;s response. The New York Times in a story about the book also saying Trump at one point wanted his daughter and son-in-law out of Washington; demanding then Chief of Staff John Kelly &#8220;get rid of my kids&#8230;get them back to New York,&#8221; Ward writes. The White House today pushing back. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a statement saying &#8220;it&#8217;s sad, but not surprising the media would spend time promoting a book based on shady anonymous sources and false information instead of all the incredible work Jared and Ivanka are doing for the country.&#8221; Incredible work the President recently touted falsely claiming&#8230;
PRESIDENT TRUMP: My daughter&#8217;s created millions of jobs. I don&#8217;t know if anyone knows that but she&#8217;s created millions of jobs.
BENNETT: The new book also claims Ivanka has taken advantage of her position. The New York Times writing &#8220;Ms. Trump also often requested to travel on Air Force planes when it was not appropriate. When Rex Tillerson, the former Secretary of State would deny the requests, the couple would invite along a cabinet secretary, often Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to get access to a plane.&#8221; A spokesperson for Kushner&#8217;s attorney released this statement to CNN &#8220;every point that Ms. Ward mentioned in what she called her &#8216;fact checking&#8217; stage was entirely false. It seems she has written a book of fiction rather than any serious attempt to get the facts. Correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless.&#8221; A sentiment echoed last year by the first daughter herself when asked about life in Washington.
IVANKA TRUMP: There&#8217;s a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not inspect&#8230; expecting the intensity of this experience but this isn&#8217;t supposed to be easy.
BENNETT: Sarah Sanders also claims the author originally listed this book as fiction and the White House says her initial representation was accurate. So far, no word from Jared or Ivanka officially. Back to you, Jake.
TAPPER: All right, Kate Bennett, thanks so much. David Urban, let me start with you. The President, according to this book, was frustrated with Ivanka and Jared because they generated bad press. He devised a plan with his then-Chief of Staff John Kelly to make life tough for them so that they would go back to New York City. Regardless, Jared and Ivanka, just on the facts, forgot the book for a second. They&#8217;ve outlasted everybody. There&#8217;s clearly been fights that they&#8217;ve had with other people within the West Wing. They have outlasted everybody.
DAVID URBAN: Yeah. I mean, look, number one, I find this&#8230;I do find this fictional. There&#8217;s a lot of books that are written that you see and there&#8217;s&#8230;I know grains of truth in some of them. I think this, imagining the President telling John Kelly like let&#8217;s get rid of my kids, send them back to New York. I mean, I&#8217;ve been around the President, and Jared, and Ivanka, and I can tell you that that&#8217;s pure fiction and not believable whatsoever.
TAPPER: What, what do you take from, from this book? Is it a sign that loyalty is, is preeminent with the Trumps?
PAUL BEGALA: I don&#8217;t think so. No, I think mediocrity is. And when you&#8217;re too mediocre even for Donald Trump, you really got a problem. And of course they survived. I mean, cockroaches are going to survive a nuclear war. When they, when they took this job&#8230;
TAPPER: You&#8217;re not calling Ivanka and Jared cockroaches.
BEGALA: Family is&#8230;no, no, no, I&#8217;m talking about a separate class of species.
TAPPER: Okay.
BEGALA: But when they took this job, I thought it was an enormous mistake. I don&#8217;t believe in criticizing politicians&#8217; families. They&#8217;re no longer family. They&#8217;re government officials.
TAPPER: Sure.
BEGALA: They work for me.
TAPPER: Right.
BEGALA: And so we should hold them to a high standard. And some of the stuff in here is shocking. Abusing military aircraft, I mean, you know, it&#8217;s just&#8230;profiting, profiting&#8230;I know they both had difficult fathers, right, that&#8217;s part of the book apparently. Ms. Ward reports one a criminal, the other Charlie Kushner, the New Jersey real estate developer. And so you can&#8217;t excuse that in the government official though. I don&#8217;t really care if you had a bad daddy, you work for me now.
TAPPER: I do find&#8230;I do find credible though the part where Gary Cohn expresses frustration to Ivanka Trump. We know that he was very upset about that.
TIFFANY CROSS: Right.
TAPPER: And she says my dad is not a racist. You know, you&#8217;re getting it wrong or whatever. That, that does sound like what happened.
TIFFANY CROSS: Yeah. Well, it sounds like asinine response to ridiculous comments that come from this President that have been consistent with his candidacy, consistent with his presidency. Look, I think this is what happens when the Lannisters occupy the White House. You know, this is something that is very consistent with what we&#8217;ve seen throughout the family.
TAPPER: Just a fact check. The Lannisters always repay their debts.
CROSS: Fair enough. Fair enough, Jake, fair enough.
TAPPER: Just one thing.
CROSS: Fair enough. Yeah. I think this is kind of ridiculous. Look, these are not public servants, Okay. Like this is not somebody who wants to fly&#8230;you know, she wants to fly private.
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WATCH: CNN Commentator Compares Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner To &#8216;Cockroaches&#8217;

Jake Tapper

About a year ago, I was invited to the White House along with dozens of other conservative activists to listen to President Trump and members of his administration discuss various policy initiatives. 
One of the speakers was Ivanka Trump, who attempted to make the case for paid family leave to a room full of fiscal conservatives. The room was so silent you could hear a pin drop.
Like most conservatives, I am wary of new or expanded entitlement programs. So when the Trump administration released its proposed 2020 budget and included paid family leave again, I was quite concerned. 
Ivanka has been the driver of this initiative since the 2016 campaign, where she stood by Trump&#8217;s side as he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYLWuJCsWPU">announced</a> his support for six weeks of government-sponsored paid leave for new mothers. Trump emphasized that he believed the policy could be accomplished without dunning taxpayers by using funds created through eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program.
But this is not exactly what was unveiled in the President&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-releases-budget-seeks-billions-more-for-border-wall-and-work-requirements-for-welfare">budget proposal</a> released this week. Instead, the proposal expands paid family leave to both new mothers and fathers and gives the authority to the states to create the programs.
When Trump first included paid family leave in his 2019 budget proposal, he was <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/at-sotu-trump-says-federal-budget-will-include-paid-family-leave">the first president</a> to ever do so. Piggybacking on Trump&#8217;s support, prominent Republicans have introduced legislation to make paid family leave a reality. Last Congress, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the &#8220;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3345/text?r=3">Economic Security for New Parents Act</a>,&#8221; which would allow new parents to borrow funds from their future Social Security benefits.
Additionally, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paid-family-leave-cradle-act-senators-joni-ernst-and-mike-lee-its-time-to-catch-up-with-other-countries/">unveiled</a> a proposal for paid family leave on Tuesday, called the Child Rearing and Development Leave Employment (CRADLE) Act. Ernst said it was &#8220;time to catch up with other countries&#8221; as the U.S. is one of the only countries in the world <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/10/06/495839588/countries-around-the-world-beat-the-u-s-on-paid-parental-leave">without</a> paid family leave.
And while I had initial skepticism after hearing the word entitlement, if structured properly, paid family leave could be a conservative cause.
As conservatives, it is part of our fundamental values to emphasize the importance of the family and the care of children. Guaranteeing women pay for six weeks after having a child strengthens the family unit by allowing women to keep their careers and livelihood while bonding with their children for the first weeks of their lives. Furthermore, such a policy relieves the stress of a new working mother and has the potential to make such a woman considering an abortion think twice. 
This method of achieving paid family leave doesn&#8217;t change existing laws that require employers to allow for 12 weeks of unpaid family leave or even affect employers at all. Instead, it provides for paid family leave funds to come from entitlement programs that already exist by allowing taxpayers to have more access to their own (coerced) investments. This is a win for conservatives. 
In a perfectly conservative society, the government would have very limited (and efficiently run) entitlement programs and instead allow more Americans to keep their taxes. But in reality, millions of Americans depend on entitlements and so the programs are not going anywhere any time soon. 
Ivanka Trump <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/paid-family-leave-is-a-good-national-policy-1499184292">refuses</a> to call the initiative an entitlement and instead refers to it as &#8220;an investment in America&#8217;s working families,&#8221; and perhaps she&#8217;s right.

DILLON: The Conservative Case For Paid Family Leave

Since her rollout of the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; earlier this month &#8212; which included a much-ridiculed, since-deleted <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf">FAQ</a> that &#8220;guarantee[d] a job with family-sustaining wages&#8221; and &#8220;economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work&#8221; &#8212; Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has found herself continually defending the radical deal amid criticism from both the Left and Right about its <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/43912/economic-apocalypse-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-ryan-saavedra">massively expensive</a>, pie-in-the-sky proposals.
On Tuesday, Fox News released a clip of an interview with First Daughter Ivanka Trump pushing back on the socialist premise of the GND&#8217;s &#8220;guaranteed jobs&#8221; promise. The democratic socialist congresswoman has since responded by expressing incredulity about Ivanka&#8217;s criticism.
In an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-challenges-ocasio-cortez-platform-says-americans-dont-want-guaranteed-minimum">interview</a> that will air in full Sunday, Fox News host Steve Hilton asked Ivanka about the Green New Deal&#8217;s &#8220;guaranteed jobs&#8221; promise. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got people who will see that offer from the Democrats, from the progressive Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: &#8216;Here&#8217;s the Green New Deal, here&#8217;s the guarantee of a job,&#8217; and think, &#8216;Yeah, that&#8217;s what I want, it&#8217;s that simple.&#8217; What do you say to those people?&#8221; Hilton asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,&#8221; said Ivanka. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get. 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&#8217;s there&#8217;s the potential for upward mobility.&#8221;
Predictably, Ivanka was met with backlash from the Left for being a daughter of a wealthy man who hasn&#8217;t had the same struggle as most middle class Americans. Ocasio-Cortez took a similar angle, stressing her own working class background as a bartender. As for Ivanka&#8217;s line about a &#8220;guaranteed minimum,&#8221; AOC initially used that to defend the idea of a &#8220;living wage&#8221; by declaring it to be a &#8220;right.&#8221;
&#8220;As a person who actually worked for tips &amp; hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;A living wage isn&#8217;t a gift, it&#8217;s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, wages are so low today compared to actual worker productivity that they are no longer the reflections of worker value as they used to be. Productivity has grown 6.2x more than pay,&#8221; she added in a follow-up tweet, linking to a <a href="https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/">report</a> by a left-wing think tank.
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As a person who actually worked for tips &amp; hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live.
A living wage isn&#8217;t a gift, it&#8217;s a right. Workers are often paid far less than the value they create. <a href="https://t.co/P5FsQuhCTW">https://t.co/P5FsQuhCTW</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100525288126058498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In fact, wages are so low today compared to actual worker productivity that they are no longer the reflections of worker value as they used to be.
Productivity has grown 6.2x more than pay:<a href="https://t.co/Zh5n46EfPQ">https://t.co/Zh5n46EfPQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/J7ctQ8TXPO">pic.twitter.com/J7ctQ8TXPO</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100526558442414080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Imagine attacking a Jobs Guarantee by saying &#8216;people prefer to earn money.&#8217; ????&#8221; she wrote (h/t <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/02/26/imagine-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-process-ivanka-trumps-criticism-of-the-green-new-deal/">Twitchy</a>).
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Imagine attacking a Jobs Guarantee by saying &#8216;people prefer to earn money.&#8217;
??? <a href="https://t.co/pEhwXcZ3aw">https://t.co/pEhwXcZ3aw</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100527371478806529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In the interview with Hilton, Ivanka also addressed the idea that the 2020 election is shaping up to be a battle between her father&#8217;s pro-capitalism policies and the increasingly socialist proposals of the Democrats.
&#8220;I think fundamentally if you ask yourself the question, &#8216;Are we better today than we were yesterday or we were 2 years ago?&#8217; the answer is, undoubtedly, yes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, as an American, families sitting down and thinking about their financial situation relative to a month ago or a year ago, America is doing very well and it stands in quite sharp contrast to the rest of the world. So, not only are we doing well, much of the world has slowed down in terms of the pace of their growth.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43912/economic-apocalypse-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-ryan-saavedra">Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217; To Cost Up To $93 Trillion, $650,000+ Per Household, Study Says</a>

Ocasio-Cortez Can’t Understand Ivanka’s Problem With ‘Green New Deal’

Climate Change

Global Warming

In an interview with Fox News host Steve Hilton that will air in full Sunday, First Daughter and White House Adviser Ivanka Trump pushed back on the premises of the policies promoted by democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying she doesn&#8217;t believe Americans want a &#8220;guaranteed minimum&#8221; for their lives.
Ivanka&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-challenges-ocasio-cortez-platform-says-americans-dont-want-guaranteed-minimum">comments</a> were prompted by a question from Hilton, who said of the Green New Deal&#8217;s promise of a federal jobs guarantee: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got people who will see that offer from the Democrats, from the progressive Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: &#8216;Here&#8217;s the Green New Deal, here&#8217;s the guarantee of a job,&#8217; and think, &#8216;Yeah, that&#8217;s what I want, it&#8217;s that simple.&#8217; What do you say to those people?&#8221;
Trump responded by challenging the central premise of Ocasio-Cortez and Co.&#8217;s promises.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get. So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want.&#8221;
Instead, she said, Americans want agency and mobility. &#8220;They want the ability to be able to secure a job,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They want the ability to live in a country where&#8217;s there&#8217;s the potential for upward mobility.&#8221;
Asked about her father framing the 2020 election as a battle between his promotion of capitalism and Democrats&#8217; increasing embrace of socialistic policies, Ivanka pointed to the results of her father&#8217;s pro-business policies versus other countries that are heavily socialist.
&#8220;I think fundamentally if you ask yourself the question, &#8216;Are we better today than we were yesterday or we were 2 years ago?&#8217; the answer is, undoubtedly, yes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, as an American, families sitting down and thinking about their financial situation relative to a month ago or a year ago, America is doing very well and it stands in quite sharp contrast to the rest of the world. So, not only are we doing well, much of the world has slowed down in terms of the pace of their growth.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described &#8220;democratic socialist,&#8221; has rapidly become one of the leading voices of the Democratic Party, and her radical Green New Deal has already gained a lot of support among her Democratic colleagues. The deal calls for the complete elimination of fossil fuels, guaranteed jobs, a federally mandated minimum wage, and Medicare-for-All.
On Monday, Bloomberg published the results of a study by a former Congressional Budget Office director that found that the Green New Deal would likely cost anywhere from $51 trillion to $93 trillion over 10 years.
&#8220;The so-called Green New Deal may tally between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10-years, concludes American Action Forum, which is run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who directed the non-partisan CBO from from 2003 to 2005,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/group-sees-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-costing-93-trillion">Bloomberg</a> reported. &#8220;That includes between $8.3 trillion and $12.3 trillion to meet the plan&#8217;s call to eliminate carbon emissions from the power and transportation sectors and between $42.8 trillion and $80.6 trillion for its economic agenda including providing jobs and health care for all.&#8221;
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-challenges-ocasio-cortez-platform-says-americans-dont-want-guaranteed-minimum">Fox News</a>.

WATCH: Ivanka Challenges AOC’s Socialist Agenda: People Don’t Want A ‘Guaranteed Minimum’

Fox News

On Tuesday, First Daughter and advisor to the president Ivanka Trump classily responded to a degrading art exhibit in Washington, D.C. that features an Ivanka lookalike vacuuming crumbs.
The exhibit, called &#8220;Ivanka Vacuuming,&#8221; was created by conceptual artist Jennifer Rubell, a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Fine Arts, and depicts Ivanka in a pink dress and heels vacuuming crumbs off a pink carpet, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43032/obnoxious-art-exhibit-has-ivanka-lookalike-hank-berrien">reported</a>. In front of the exhibit is a white pedestal with a pile of crumbs that observers are encouraged to throw onto the carpet.
In a <a href="https://www.culturaldc.org/ivanka-vacuuming-by-jennifer-rubell-press-release">press release</a>, the gallery claims it was inspired by Trump&#8217;s public persona that &#8220;incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities&#8221; including &#8220;daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde,&#8221; adding that the art piece &#8220;is simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing.&#8221;
Rubell says the exhibit is open to multiple and contradictory interpretations that &#8220;are as critical of the interpreter as they are of the subject.&#8221;
&#8220;Here is what&#8217;s complicated: we enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more,&#8221; Rubell said. &#8220;We like having the power to elicit a specific and certain response. Also, we know she&#8217;ll keep vacuuming whether we do it or not, so it&#8217;s not really our fault, right?&#8221;
&#8220;Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up,&#8221; Ivanka tweeted. &#8220;I choose the latter.&#8221; 
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Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter. <a href="https://t.co/MFri4xKhNI">https://t.co/MFri4xKhNI</a>
&#8212; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1092803194428801024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ivanka&#8217;s brother, Donald Trump Jr., also took offense to the &#8220;art exhibit.&#8221;
&#8220;Sad, but not surprising to watch self professed &#8220;feminists&#8221; launching sexist attacks against @IvankaTrump,&#8221; he tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;In their crazed world, sexism is OK if it hurts their political enemies. That&#8217;s ok, they can go put on their stupid hats &amp; she&#8217;ll get back to actually fighting for women.&#8221;
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Sad, but not surprising to watch self professed &#8220;feminists&#8221; launching sexist attacks against <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a>. In their crazed world, sexism is OK if hurts their political enemies.
That&#8217;s ok, they can go put on their stupid hats &amp; she&#8217;ll get back to actually fighting for women. <a href="https://t.co/yxXIDz2R8e">https://t.co/yxXIDz2R8e</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1092839348087808001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rubell responded to Trump, claiming that it was not meant to &#8220;knock anyone down&#8221; and encouraged her to see the exhibit for herself without any media.
&#8220;Ivanka, I would encourage you to see the piece and form your own direct response,&#8221; Rubell tweeted. &#8220;I would be happy to arrange for you to do it alone with none of the media circus that has formed around it. Not knocking anyone down. Exploring complicated subjects we all care about.&#8221;
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Ivanka, I would encourage you to see the piece and form your own direct response. I would be happy to arrange for you to do it alone with none of the media circus that has formed around it. Not knocking anyone down. Exploring complicated subjects we all care about.
&#8212; Jennifer Rubell (@jenniferrubell) <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferrubell/status/1092826529791426561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rubell told <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/02/223467/ivanka-trump-performance-art-exhibit-jennifer-rubell?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=tweet">Refinery29</a> that the audience isn&#8217;t throwing crumbs at the model playing Ivanka, only onto the carpet where she vacuums them up. She added that the crumbs can symbolize many different things, including the &#8220;cheapness of our appreciation of her and Trump&#8217;s &#8220;desire to clean things up.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely open-ended and open to many different interpretations,&#8221; Rubell added. &#8220;One thing [tossing the crumbs] could say is that we&#8217;re all complicit in this dynamic and how it relates to feminism and femininity.&#8221; 
This is not the first time Trump has had seemingly sexist attacks at her from so-called feminists. 
In May, Samantha Bee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/samantha-bee-hits-ivanka-trump-with-a-filthy-sexist-attack-the-silence-on-the-left-is-deafening">called</a> Ivanka a &#8220;feckless c&#8212;&#8212;&#8221; on her show &#8220;Full Frontal,&#8221; and MSNBC contributor Joan Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18518/feminist-joan-walsh-rips-ivanka-wearing-girlie-hank-berrien">attacked</a> Trump for wearing a dress that showed off her &#8220;girliness&#8221; while sitting in for her father at the g20 summit in July. The model in the exhibit is wearing the same dress from the summit.
The exhibit says the &#8220;limited engagement performance art piece&#8221; will be displayed from February 1 &#8211; 17. The exhibit will also be <a href="https://www.culturaldc.org/ivanka-vacuuming">live streamed</a> between 6-8 p.m. EST.

CLASSY: Ivanka Trump Politely Responds To Art Exhibit Of Her Vacuuming Crumbs With One Comment

In an obnoxious attack on Ivanka Trump, a female &#8220;conceptual artist&#8221; created an exhibit at a Washington, D.C. gallery called &#8220;Ivanka Vacuuming&#8221; where the audience is encouraged to throw crumbs so an Ivanka lookalike can vacuum them from a carpet.
Jennifer Rubell, unsurprisingly a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Fine Arts who lives in New York City, created the nasty hommage for CulturalDC as it marks its 20th year of &#8220;creating affordable, sustainable artist spaces in the Washington, DC, area.&#8221;
As Kelsey Harkness notes at <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/04/art-exhibit-invites-people-throw-trash-vacuuming-ivanka-trump-lookalike/">The Federalist</a>, the lookalike in &#8220;a pink dress with bows and stiletto shoes vacuums crumbs off a plush, pink carpet. To make the spectacle interactive, onlookers are encouraged to take crumbs from a pedestal and throw them at her to vacuum up.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.culturaldc.org/ivanka-vacuuming-by-jennifer-rubell-press-release">press release</a> for the exhibit states:
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Inspired by a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities &#8211; daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde &#8211; Ivanka Vacuuming is simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing.
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Kristi Maiselman, Executive Director of CulturalDC, boasted, &#8220;Jennifer&#8217;s insightful work is perfect for the artistically savvy and civic-minded DC crowd. We&#8217;re always happy to provide a platform for timely, boundary-pushing installations like Ivanka Vacuuming.&#8221;
Harkness notes, &#8220;The irony, of course, is that the exhibit reflects every stereotype feminists claim to stand against, oversexualizing Ivanka&#8217;s body and ignoring her hard work. (One can only imagine the feminist rage if it were, say, Michelle Obama on display.)&#8221;
Rubell commented on her work: &#8220;Here is what&#8217;s complicated: we enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more. We like having the power to elicit a specific and certain response. Also, we know she&#8217;ll keep vacuuming whether we do it or not, so it&#8217;s not really our fault, right?&#8221;
In all likelihood, Ivanka has gotten accustomed to being attacked before, whether by so-called feminists like Jessica Valenti in 2016, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11865/feminists-think-ivanka-had-it-coming-when-guy-amanda-prestigiacomo">wrote,</a> &#8220;You don&#8217;t get to power an administration that&#8217;s going to hurt people&#8217;s health, lives and families &amp; not hear back from those people,&#8221; and &#8220;Also, it&#8217;s infantilizing &amp; sexist to argue that Ivanka should be shielded from public criticism,&#8221; or Saturday Night Live mocking her by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14334/snl-targets-ivanka-being-complicit-trump-frank-camp">creating a mock ad</a> with a perfume called &#8220;Complicit,&#8221; or by noted feminist Joan Walsh, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18518/feminist-joan-walsh-rips-ivanka-wearing-girlie-hank-berrien">attacked Ivanka</a> for wearing a &#8220;girlie&#8221; dress while attending the G20 summit, writing:
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With big bows on her sleeve. I mean, I don&#8217;t mean to sound sexist &#8212; it can be dangerous to comment on what women wear &#8212; but the fact that she sat in for her father in a dress that was so incredibly ornamental was such a contradiction in terms. And I think that what we see is that in patriarchal, authoritarian societies, daughters have great value &#8212; they are property. And the message that she is sending about her own value, about her place in the White House, and about the place of women in this administration, I think, are really pretty frightening.
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Not only is the &#8220;Ivanka Vacuuming&#8221; exhibit open to live audiences, it is being <a href="https://www.culturaldc.org/ivanka-vacuuming">livestreamed</a> until February 17 every evening between 6-8 p.m. EST.

OBNOXIOUS: Art Exhibit Has Ivanka Lookalike Vacuuming While Audience Throws Crumbs At Her

A woman married to a Justice Department official involved with the investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election was asked by her employer, opposition research firm Fusion GPS, to investigate Trump&#8217;s children.
Nellie Ohr used to work for Fusion GPS. Her husband, Bruce Ohr, works for the Justice Department and is heavily tied to the Russian collusion investigation. While working for Fusion, Nellie was asked to investigate Trump&#8217;s children. She also told lawmakers in her October 19, 2018 deposition that ex-British Spy Christopher Steele, who was also a contractor for Fusion and responsible for the infamous Steele Dossier used to accuse Trump of a number of salacious acts, had passed information from his dossier to Bruce in the hopes that he would turn it over to the FBI.
Nellie&#8217;s testimony has been recently leaked, transcripts of which <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/30/nellie-ohr-ivanka-trump-fusion-gps/">were confirmed</a> by The Daily Caller News Foundation&#8217;s (DCNF) Chuck Ross.
Ross reported that it was &#8220;unclear whether Ohr shared any information that she gathered working for Fusion GPS with her husband, who served as associate deputy attorney general until he was reassigned in December 2017.&#8221; He also reported there is &#8220;no indication that Ohr&#8217;s research of the Trump children wound up in the dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page.&#8221;
Is it possible that Nellie did not share information with her husband, even though Steele did? Sure, but it&#8217;s hard to look past Bruce Ohr&#8217;s clear conflict of interest.
Fusion GPS was working on behalf of a law firm hired by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Nellie testified that she was given information from Steele&#8217;s dossier without knowing it, and did not see the completed dossier until Buzzfeed broke journalistic ethics to publish it on January 10, 2017. She also testified that she was asked to research Trump&#8217;s family.
&#8220;But in terms of actually performing research, did you begin to break out President Trump&#8217;s family in terms of Melania Trump, all of his children? Were you doing independent research based off of each family member?&#8221; Nellie was asked during her testimony, according to the DCNF.
Nellie responded that she &#8220;did some research on all of them, but not into much depth.&#8221;
When asked if she looked into Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump specifically, Nellie said she did, but &#8220;it was relatively superficial.&#8221; She said she looked into their travels &#8220;to see whether they were involved in dealings and transactions with people who had had suspicious pasts.&#8221;
Ross also notes several conflicting accounts in the testimony of Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion:
&#8220;Simpson testified to the Intelligence committee on Nov. 14, 2017 that he did not meet with anyone from the Justice Department or FBI until after the election. But Ohr testified that he met Simpson on Aug. 22, 2016.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats on House Intelligence also claimed in a memo released last year that Ohr did not pass information he gleaned from Fusion GPS or Steele until after the election. But Ohr testified that he contacted top FBI officials almost immediately after his July 30, 2016 meeting with Steele.&#8221;

Fusion GPS Had Wife Of DOJ Official Investigate Trump’s Children: Report

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Consumer confidence is up across the board, and the Trump Administration insists that the economy is doing well, but there&#8217;s one brand that&#8217;s not following the market: the Trump brand.
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-businesses-take-a-hit-as-the-brand-has-lost-its-mojo-2018-12-23">Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Marketwatch</a> reports that the president&#8217;s namesake hotels, golf courses, condominium developments, and wineries are having a tough time making ends meet. The brand, they say, has &#8220;lost its mojo.&#8221;
&#8220;From golf fees and licensing deals to prices for Trump condos, many metrics used to gauge his business in the first two years of his presidency are down as the divisive comments and policies so beloved by his political base have turned off a group just as dear to him &#8212; the affluent who fuel his businesses,&#8221; Marketwatch reports.
The downturn can&#8217;t be fully quantified, but it appears to extend beyond just Trump hotels. The president&#8217;s golf courses in Scotland and the United States have posted losses and the price to own a condominium in a Trump building has dropped about 14% in both New York and Chicago, even as housing prices in both cities continue to rise.
The source of the problem may be easy to pinpoint: the same political volatility that has marked Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency carries over into the corporate world. Hotel guests and golfers fear they&#8217;re making a political statement by staying at Trump properties and frequenting Trump courses.
There are other factors in play, though. Democrats have been intensely focused on Trump&#8217;s businesses, and have demanded a strong separation between the Trump White House and the Trump brand, which severely hampers the brand&#8217;s ability to do business.
&#8220;Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric have said that new limits their father has placed on his businesses, such as agreeing not to strike any new business overseas, have indeed slowed deal-making. But they said that might be the price to pay for their father being president,&#8221; Marketwatch reports.
Ivanka Trump was even forced to shut down her signature clothing and accessories brand to avoid the impression that she was dividing her attention between the country&#8217;s needs and her business&#8217;s.
Those restrictions are on top of a series of investigations, including an anticipated Congressional investigation, into whether Donald Trump has unjustly enriched himself using the office of the president in violation of the Constitution&#8217;s &#8220;Emoluments Clause.&#8221; Democrats, who are set to take over the House in just a few days, have said they intend to make an &#8220;Emoluments Clause&#8221; investigation a top priority and that they plan on subpoenaing the president&#8217;s personal tax records going back decades.
But if things have dropped off a little for the Trump family, it hasn&#8217;t shown. The Trump brand is still, the WSJ reports, pulling in more than $400 million in revenue per year, and $40 million of that is from the president&#8217;s Washington, D.C. hotel alone.

BUST?: The Trump Brand Has &#8216;Lost Its Mojo,&#8217; Even As Economy Rebounds

In Friday&#8217;s episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about a report about Planned Parenthood mistreating pregnant employees.
&#8220;The New York Times has a bombshell report out that Planned Parenthood is accused of mistreating pregnant employees. Now, this should not come as a surprise to anybody who has any sense of humor whatsoever. This is what they write: &#8216;Employers that champion women face accusations of discrimination against their pregnant workers showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.,&#8221; Knowles said.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got an organization that exists singularly, simply to end pregnancies and kill babies, and The New York Times is shocked that that agency, that organization would not treat pregnant women with respect,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;They&#8217;re shocked, this is such a contradiction to them because they don&#8217;t see the contradiction and the paradox of abortion. It goes on:&#8216;Planned Parenthood, which has been accused of sidelining, ousting, or otherwise handicapping pregnant employees, according to interviews with more than a dozen current or former employees.&#8217;&#8221;
Knowles broke down the false statistics claiming Planned Parenthood&#8217;s abortion procedures only make up 3% of their services when it is more likely over <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/new-video-debunks-planned-parenthoods-3-percent-abortion-myth/">90%</a>. 
&#8220;The organization exists to end pregnancies,&#8221; he said. 
&#8220;This story exposes just one contradiction of abortion which I want to talk about. If pregnancy doesn&#8217;t matter, if pregnancy is just like getting your appendix inflamed, then why does special treatment of pregnant women matter so much? If the unborn baby is insignificant, then why is pregnancy so significant? Why is this such a big issue? We talk about maternity leave as a national issue.&#8221;
&#8220;Ivanka Trump tried to make this into a national issue. The New York Times is making it a national issue. Why? If the pregnancy is nothing, if it&#8217;s just a little inconvenience that can be whipped away with no greater care than if you&#8217;re cutting your fingernails, then why is the pregnancy so significant. It doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense.&#8221;
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The New York Times has a bombshell report out that Planned Parenthood is accused of mistreating pregnant employees. Now, this should not come as a surprise to anybody who has any sense of humor whatsoever. This is what they write:
&#8220;Employers that champion women face accusations of discrimination against their pregnant workers showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.&#8221;
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This reminds me of this classic, I think it was Fox Butterfield headline in The New York Times that said: &#8220;Crime rate continues to fall despite prisons filling,&#8221; or &#8220;prisons continue to fill despite crime rates falling.&#8221; Now, we would all assume that if you lock up more criminals, the crime rate would fall. There is a causal relationship here where the crazy left-wingers see a paradoxical relationship or a contradiction. It&#8217;s the same thing here. You&#8217;ve got an organization that exists singularly, simply to end pregnancies and kill babies, and The New York Times is shocked that that agency, that organization, would not treat pregnant women with respect? They&#8217;re shocked, this is such a contradiction to them because they don&#8217;t see the contradiction and the paradox of abortion. It goes on:
&#8220;Planned Parenthood, which has been accused of sidelining, ousting, or otherwise handicapping pregnant employees according to interviews with more than a dozen current or former employees.&#8221;
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The organization exists to end pregnancies. They always say that three percent of their services are abortion and everything else is non-abortion. This is because they count little nothings as &#8220;serves&#8221;. So, if you hand someone a condom, it&#8217;s a service, if you kill a baby, that&#8217;s a service, and they give out a lot more condoms. Ninety-four percent of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s pregnancy-related services are abortion serves. It&#8217;s hard to arrive at a really precise number with confidence because Planned Parenthood doesn&#8217;t actually admit the number of women who go into their clinics every year who are pregnant. They can&#8217;t admit it, because the reason you go to Planned Parenthood is to get an abortion. So, using various other statistics that they&#8217;ve arrived at, it seems that the number of pregnancy serves that are related to abortion are ninety-four percent. This is almost all of them.
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This story exposes just one contradiction of abortion which I want to talk about. If pregnancy doesn&#8217;t matter, if pregnancy is just like getting your appendix inflamed, then why does special treatment of pregnant women matter so much? If the unborn baby is insignificant, then why is pregnancy so significant? Why is this such a big issue? We talk about maternity leave as a national issue. Ivanka Trump tried to make this into a national issue. The New York Times is making it a national issue. Why? If the pregnancy is nothing if it&#8217;s just a little inconvenience that can be whipped away with no greater care than if you&#8217;re cutting your fingernails, then why is the pregnancy so significant. It doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense.
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Knowles: Why Is The Media Surprised Planned Parenthood Mistreats Pregnant Employees?

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews thinks President Trump might just resign as part of a secret deal with special prosecutor Robert Mueller in an effort to avoid prosecution of himself or members of his family.
&#8220;The president&#8217;s children stand right in the line of Mueller&#8217;s investigative progress,&#8221; Matthews said this week on his show &#8220;Hardball,&#8221; referring to Ivanka and Donald Jr. &#8220;They stand as the next dominoes to fall,&#8221; Matthews said, noting that the Trump children can &#8220;hardly testify against their father.&#8221;
&#8220;Therein lies the problem: Where earlier Mueller subjects have given Trump up, these two lack the option to do that,&#8221; said the TV entertainer, adding that if Mueller &#8220;will not be stopped and the kids will not fall to him, we see the president&#8217;s adult children heading to prison.&#8221;
Matthews then mused about a solution. &#8220;But what if the prosecutor were to offer the president an alternative?&#8221; he said. &#8220;What if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around &#8213; not just for himself, but for all his kids,&#8221; said Matthews, who famously got a &#8220;thrill&#8221; up his leg whenever he watched former President Barack Obama speak.
The TV host said it&#8217;s happened before, citing the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973, who struck a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time for tax evasion. &#8220;Leverage the office while you still have it. So let&#8217;s watch the probable events of the coming weeks bring all this to a breaking point,&#8221; Matthews said.
&#8220;It is going to be historic,&#8221; he predicted.
The scenario has become a favorite of Washington insiders and mainstream media of late. The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;conservative&#8221; columnist Jennifer Rubin said last week that Trump is likely planning an 11th hour stunt to avoid going to jail.
&#8220;I would predict here on MSNBC that when Trump leaves office he will resign the presidency 10 minutes before Mike Pence leaves office, allowing Pence to pardon him if there is not a Republican president to follow him,&#8221; Rubin said on the network&#8217;s &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; show.
Under Rubin&#8217;s theory, on January 20, 2021 (or, more likely, 2025), Trump will resign the presidency at 11:50 a.m. (the incoming president is sworn in at the Capitol at noon). Then, the vice president will be sworn in as president (he&#8217;d have to be), and whip out a presidential pardon, which he&#8217;d sign. At noon, poof, Pence is no longer president and Trump is in the clear.
Talk about wacky.

WACKY: MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews Predicts Trump Will Resign Soon In Secret Deal With Mueller

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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood celebrated a victory over Team Trump Tuesday: The president&#8217;s charitable foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, has agreed to dissolve under the supervision of the court rather than on its own terms.
The agreement to dissolve with judicial supervision is part of a lawsuit brought by the New York A.G.&#8217;s office against the foundation and its key players, namely Trump and his children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr, whom the suit accuses of having used the foundation &#8220;as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump&#8217;s business and political interests.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/embattled-trump-foundation-agrees-dissolve-agreement-york-ag/story?id=59884847">statement</a> reported by ABC News Tuesday, A.G. Underwood celebrated the agreement as accomplishing a &#8220;key piece of relief&#8221; sought in her lawsuit. &#8220;Today&#8217;s stipulation accomplishes a key piece of the relief sought in our lawsuit earlier this year,&#8221; said Underwood. &#8220;Under the terms, the Trump Foundation can only dissolve under judicial supervision &#8211; and it can only distribute its remaining charitable assets to reputable organizations approved by my office.&#8221;
ABC notes that the foundation &#8220;had previously sought to dissolve on its own terms,&#8221; but under pressure from Underwood&#8217;s office, it has agreed to be monitored by the court and the A.G.&#8217;s office, &#8220;which must review and approve disbursements of remaining funds to make sure the recipients are legitimate.&#8221;
Citing alleged campaign contributions and legal settlements, Underwood has accused the Trumps of illegally using money accumulated from charitable donations to the foundation to promote Trump&#8217;s political and financial goals. One of the alleged abuses involves buying a portrait of Trump to hang on a hotel wall.
The lawsuit is seeking restitution and the banning of the Trumps from serving on charity boards for a decade.
Trump&#8217;s attorneys maintain that the lawsuit is politically motivated, but a judge declined dismissing the case last month.
The Trump Foundation first came under scrutiny by New York when former A.G. Eric Schneiderman began targeting it in 2016. Trump has served as president of the foundation, while Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric have been listed as directors.
In one of its early reports on Schneiderman&#8217;s investigation, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-foundation-investigation/story?id=42081467">ABC News</a> provided a breakdown of high-dollar donations to the foundation dating back decades. &#8220;The biggest contributor from 2011 to 2014 was Richard Ebers, a man associated with an event-ticketing company, Inside Sports and Entertainment, according to the 990 forms,&#8221; ABC reports. &#8220;The only other contributor that year was a carpet wholesale company, Prestige Mills, based in Long Island in New York, which contributed $20,000 that year and $14,000 in 2011.&#8221;
Trump donated to the foundation himself several times over the years, amounting to over $2.7 million, including $713,000 in 2004.
The foundation has given to a range of charities, including the much-maligned and now-defunct Clinton Foundation, to which the foundation directed $100,000 in 2009 and $10,000 in 2010. ABC also notes that the foundation gave $100,000 in 2014 to the conservative Citizens United Foundation, the group behind the Citizens United case that allows corporations and unions to spend as much as they want on campaign contributions.
The Foundation also gave to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the Elton John Aids Foundation, Michael J. Fox Foundation, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Along with politically charged and celebrity-backed causes, the foundation directed money to schools attended by some of the children in the family.

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