Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) took a partisan shot at White House advisor Ivanka Trump after the First Daughter issued a family-related Twitter post concerning coronavirus social distancing.
&#8220;Staying home today [with] kids?&#8221; Ivanka posted, captioning a photo of herself and two of her young children. &#8220;Plan living room camp out!&#8221;
&#8220;Throw a bedsheet over some taped together brooms. Plan a menu &amp; ‘pack’ sandwiches, salads (S’mores optional),&#8221; she added. &#8220;A fun activity that also brings family together for a meal!&#8221;
&#8220;Share your ideas &amp; use the hashtag <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TogetherApart?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#TogetherApart</a>,&#8221; the eldest Trump daughter encouraged others.
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Staying home today w/ kids? 
Plan living room camp out!
Throw a bedsheet over some taped together brooms. Plan a menu &amp; ‘pack’ sandwiches, salads (S’mores optional😜)
A fun activity that also brings family together for a meal!
Share your ideas &amp; use the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TogetherApart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TogetherApart</a> <a href="https://t.co/rgwCl8IIHY">pic.twitter.com/rgwCl8IIHY</a>
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1239892800138813446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The sweet photo and helpful family-friendly advice was enough to make Omar rifle off a partisan attack with regard to immigration policy.
&#8220;Thinking of all the families separated forcefully by your father’s policies today,&#8221; accused the congresswoman. &#8220;Share your ideas on how you plan to unite them. #TogetherApart.&#8221;
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Thinking of all the families separated forcefully by your father’s policies today. 
Share your ideas on how you plan to unite them. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TogetherApart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TogetherApart</a> <a href="https://t.co/cv2g8Oclvc">https://t.co/cv2g8Oclvc</a>
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1239966350937747456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the summer of 2019, the crisis at the Southern border dominated news cycles, with partisan hits from the Left at times <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5">confusing border facilities</a> housing illegals from former President Barack Obama&#8217;s tenure with Trump&#8217;s.
At the time, President Donald Trump contended the crisis was agitated by Democrats&#8217; &#8220;bad immigration laws.&#8221;
“Our Border Patrol people are not hospital workers, doctors or nurses,&#8221; he posted in the July 2019 tweet. &#8220;The Democrats bad Immigration Laws, which could be easily fixed, are the problem. Great job by Border Patrol, above and beyond.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of these illegals aliens are living far better now than where they came from, and in far safer conditions,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;No matter how good things actually look, even if perfect, the Democrat visitors will act shocked &amp; aghast at how terrible things are. Just Pols. If they really want to fix them, change the Immigration Laws and Loopholes. So easy to do!”
“Now, if you really want to fix the Crisis at the Southern Border, both humanitarian and otherwise, tell migrants not to come into our country unless they are willing to do so legally, and hopefully through a system based on Merit,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;This way we have no problems at all!”
Omar&#8217;s hit concerning the United States&#8217; border policies comes as nations across the globe secure their borders over the China-originated coronavirus scare.
&#8220;The EU (European Union) is banning travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days in an unprecedented move to seal its borders amid the coronavirus crisis,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51927790">BBC</a> reported Wednesday. &#8220;The measure is expected to apply to 26 EU states as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. UK citizens will be unaffected.&#8221;
President Trump strategically restricted China travel on January 31, and expanded the ban to Europe earlier this month.
In a <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting-secretary-chad-f-wolf-s-statement-presidential-proclamation">release</a> from the Department of Homeland Security posted last Wednesday, it was specified that the ban would apply to “most foreign nationals who have been in certain European countries at any point during the 14 days prior to their scheduled arrival to the United States,” and expressly exclude “legal permanent residents”:
<blockquote>Today President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation, which suspends the entry of most foreign nationals who have been in certain European countries at any point during the 14 days prior to their scheduled arrival to the United States. These countries, known as the Schengen Area, include: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. This does not apply to legal permanent residents, (generally) immediate family members of U.S. citizens, and other individuals who are identified in the proclamation.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-anchor-doubles-down-on-trump-praise-after-left-wing-backlash">CNN Anchor Doubles Down On Trump Praise After Left-Wing Backlash</a>

Ihan Omar, Ivanka Trump

Ilhan Omar Levels Partisan Hit Against Ivanka For Posting ‘Family’ Coronavirus Advice

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&#8220;I’m a proud Trump Republican,&#8221; eldest Trump daughter and White House advisor Ivanka Trump told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/ivanka-trump-republican.html">The New York Times</a> during an interview published Monday.
Ivanka, always a supporter of her father President Donald Trump, has been a liberal Democrat all her life, advocating for progressive policies and registering as a Democrat in her home state of New York.
Now, that&#8217;s all changed.
The eldest Trump daughter told the NY Times that her official party switch came because of the Democratic Party itself, which Ivanka says strayed from her beliefs, and out of a desire to vote for her father in the New York primary in 2020 (New York state has a closed primary where residents can only vote within their registered party).
But the Times took note of a different fuel: the hyper-partisan impeachment proceedings against her father.
&#8220;Once seen as a moderate voice in the White House, the president’s older daughter was angered by his impeachment and plans on an active role as a fund-raiser for his re-election campaign,&#8221; Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni wrote.
Haberman and Karni highlighted Ivanka&#8217;s recent appearance on Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity&#8217;s show, where the White House advisor said Democrats decision to reject celebrating Trump&#8217;s successes for the country was &#8220;not forgivable.&#8221;
&#8220;For us not to come together as a nation and celebrate America&#8217;s success is not forgivable,&#8221; Ivanka told Hannity in early February, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ivanka-trump-for-us-not-to-come-together-as-a-nation-and-celebrate-americas-success-is-not-forgivable">Fox News</a> reported. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s why the viewers who were watching today and realizing and celebrating alongside the president, alongside the rest of this country, what is happening. Because we have completely changed the trajectory of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;And the president is unabashed in being excited about it and celebrating it and just being a cheerleader for American excellence,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;What motivates this president and what motivates all of us who work for him is the desire to uplift all Americans, which is why it was so important to start at the beginning of the speech talking about how all Americans are benefiting from these policies,&#8221; Ivanka said of her father&#8217;s State of the Union Speech. &#8220;Especially blue-collar Americans and those who have been left behind.&#8221;
The Times reporters noted that Ivanka&#8217;s online &#8220;persona&#8221; has became more aggressive since the impeachment proceedings against her father began.
“This factional fever and incoherent, ill-conceived process has finally ended and the President has rightfully been acquitted,” the First Daughter tweeted when the Senate impeachment trial came to a close. “POTUS has accomplished so much and is just getting started. The best is yet to come!”
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This factional fever and incoherent, ill-conceived process has finally ended and the President has rightfully been acquitted. It is time for our Country to move forward. Together. 
POTUS has accomplished so much and is just getting started. 
The best is yet to come! 🇺🇸
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1225177356488396801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On the day of Trump&#8217;s acquittal, Ivanka celebrated the Trump win, the Times reported:
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On the day of her father’s acquittal, the woman who once used her popular Instagram account to show herself off as a not-quite-relatable working mother raising a young family posted a photograph of herself giving the signature Trumpian double thumbs-up in front of an American flag, wearing a USA hat. In a caption, she wrote that the portrait captured her “#Mood.”
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Ivanka&#8217;s formerly liberal husband and advisor Jared Kushner made the party switch to Republican, too.
“I was not a Republican,” Kushner recently told reporters, the Times noted. “Now I’m a Republican. I think the Republican Party is growing now that people like me feel comfortable being part of it.”

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After a raucous campaign rally in New Hampshire, President Trump on Monday took an unannounced trip to Dover Air Force Base to take part in a somber “dignified transfer ceremony” for two 28-year-old soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
After a brief prayer inside a C-17 transport plane, the president and Vice President Mike Pence stood at attention in a light rain as two U.S. flag-draped transfer cases were carried down the plane&#8217;s ramp by six members of the military wearing white gloves. The cases contained the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Antonio R. Rodriguez, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Sgt. 1st Class Javier J. Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Texas, who both died Saturday in a firefight in Nangarhar Province.
Also attending the ceremony were people traveling with the president, including daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.
“These were fallen heroes and we were close by and the president wrapped his rally early so he could come,” O&#8217;Brien told the press on board Air Force One.
Also in attendance were James C. McConville, Chief of Staff of the Army, SGM Michael Grinston, Sergeant Major of the Army, Maj. Gen. John Brennan, commander of 1st Special Forces Command, CSM Tomas Sandoval, Command Sergeant Major, 1st Special Forces Command, and Col. Matthew Jones, 436th Airlift Wing Commander, among others.
The scene was emotional. Eli Stokols, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, was in the media pool for the event and filed this in a report to other journalists:
<blockquote>At 11:03 in a light rain, the marshaler directed the vehicle with the family members of both transfers onto the tarmac and it pulled to a stop. One family member broke away toward the C-17 carrying the two transfers and was wailing as other family members and a soldier gathered her on the bottom of the rear ramp.
A few moments later once the family members were beneath a canopy, the Army carry team emerged from our right and walked behind the transfer vehicle up the ramp into the rear of the C-17 aircraft. VPOTUS and POTUS followed.
After a prayer inside the aircraft out of our view, VPOTUS and POTUS walked out and stood at attention. When the carry team brought the first flag-draped transfer, SFC Javier J. Gutierrez, down to the tarmac, they saluted as the six white gloved members of the carry team walked past with the flag-draped remains and loaded it into the waiting vehicle.
Then, the same carry team did an about face and walked back up into the C-17. After another short prayer, they came out carrying the second flag-draped transfer, SFC Antonio R. Rodriguez, again passing VPOTUS and POTUS, who stood at attention, both saluting with their right hands.
When both transfers were loaded, the back doors of the vehicle were closed and the van drove away. As the carry team and official party walked past the family, POTUS gave a low thumbs up, pumping his right fist below his waist as they walked out of view at 11:31.</blockquote>
The White House said it was the first time since 2009 that the president and vice president have attended a dignified transfer together.
O’Brien also said dignified transfer ceremonies and Trump&#8217;s visits to wounded veterans at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland are the “toughest” duty of being president.
After the ceremony, Trump wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Just returned to White House from Dover. Very sad!&#8221;

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Trump Flies Unannounced To Dover AFB After N.H. Rally To Pay Respects To Two Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan

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On his talk radio program Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh addressed the &#8220;tremendous amount of fallout&#8221; from a Don Lemon-hosted CNN panel discussion over the weekend that devolved into the guests mocking Trump supporters as illiterate, uneducated &#8220;rubes,&#8221; while the host laughed hysterically.
Along with resulting in enough pressure that Lemon felt compelled to defend himself, insisting he doesn&#8217;t believe in &#8220;belittling people&#8221; — a response that has earned yet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-lemon-gives-disastrous-statement-in-response-to-outrage-over-segment-mocking-republicans-critics-fire-back">more blowback</a> — the segment inspired a poignant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-watch-gop-launches-campaign-ad-fundraiser-off-cnns-don-lemon-mocking-trump-supporters">campaign ad</a> by the Republican National Committee (RNC). The moment has gone viral, in part, Limbaugh suggests, because it shows the public that the left-wing media elite is actually what they repeatedly portray Donald Trump to be.
&#8220;These are the people that tell us Trump is unqualified ’cause he’s got bad manners, because he talks in ways that are unacceptable, and these people go out and actually say far more insulting, mocking things than Trump does,&#8221; <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/01/29/fallout-from-cnn-mocking-trump-voters/">said</a> Limbaugh. &#8220;It really is stunning. They say (impression), &#8216;Trump is offense to basic civility. Trump is an offense to basic manners,&#8217; and then you look at all of these people that hate him, from the intellectual Never Trumpers to the intellectual erudite media and so forth, and they’re just the epitome of what they criticize — and it was on full display Saturday night on CNN.&#8221;
The Trump supporter-mocking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-cnn-mocking-trump-supporters-goes-viral-trump-responds-by-swatting-don-lemon">segment</a> began when Republican consultant Rick Wilson turned his insult of Trump into a mean-spirited takedown of the president&#8217;s supporters, with fellow guest New York Times reporter Wajahat Ali joining in. Providing a literally hysterical backdrop to the discussion was Lemon, bent over laughing to the point of crying as the insults flew, and eventually thanking Wilson, saying, he &#8220;needed that.&#8221;
Speaking of Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, Wilson said that he “knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.” The line started Lemon laughing, which he would continue to do more forcefully as the discussion went on. &#8220;He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb,” said Wilson, adopting a southern accent.
“You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling…” Ali joined in. “Your math, your reading,” added Wilson. “Yes, your reading, you know,” said Ali. “Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.”
When the ridiculing rant lost its steam, Lemon said, “Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.”
Amid massive backlash and with the RNC rapidly turning the moment into a campaign ad, Lemon addressed the segment at the end of his show Tuesday night by insisting that he was only laughing at the &#8220;Ukraine&#8221; joke, not at Trump&#8217;s supporters, because he does not believe in &#8220;belittling people.&#8221;
&#8220;And one final note that I have for you, because this is personally important to me to address this, OK?&#8221; Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-lemon-gives-disastrous-statement-in-response-to-outrage-over-segment-mocking-republicans-critics-fire-back">said</a> at the end of his show Tuesday night. &#8220;Anyone, ask anyone who knows me, they’ll tell you, I don’t believe in belittling people, belittling anyone for who they are, what they believe, or where they are from. During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh and while in the moment, I found that joke humorous. And I didn’t catch everything that was said. Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.&#8221;
Like many others on the right, Rush wasn&#8217;t buying it. &#8220;Don, admit it. You were laughing at the characterization of Trump voters ’cause that’s what got you off, Don,&#8221; said Limbaugh. &#8220;That’s what you loved!&#8221;
Limbuagh then read a tweet from Ivanka Trump reacting to the viral video: &#8220;You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s &#8216;Real Elites&#8217; is disgusting.&#8221;
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You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. 
The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s">https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s</a>
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1222126462347681793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After playing Lemon&#8217;s non-apology, and subjecting it to his own mockery, Limbaugh said, &#8220;I’ll tell you something else. Don Lemon does belittle people. He calls Trump voters neo-Nazis. He calls them racists. He belittles people. All of CNN does. There isn’t anybody on CNN that does not engage in this kind of behavior. I mean, it’s what CNN has become known for.&#8221;
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Don Lemon

Limbaugh: CNN Just Proved They Are What They Accuse Trump Of Being

Rick Wilson

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A CNN panel hosted by Don Lemon on over the weekend mocked the millions of Americans who voted for President Donald Trump as “rubes” who can’t read or do basic math.
Early Tuesday morning, Trump’s daughter Ivanka took CNN to task for the panel, pointing out that the network constantly bemoans the divisions in the country while making fun of those who don’t vote Democrat.
“You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided,” Ivanka tweeted. “The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting.”
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You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided.
The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s">https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s</a>
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1222126462347681793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-cnn-mocking-trump-supporters-goes-viral-trump-responds-by-swatting-don-lemon">reported</a>, the panel consisted of writer Wajahat Ali and Republican consultant Rick Wilson, who claimed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.”
Wilson, using a southern accent, then took a shot at Trump supporters. “He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb.”
Ali then jumped in: “You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling…”
Wilson added: “Your math, your reading.”
“Yes, your reading, you know,” Ali said. “Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.”
Lemon was in tears laughing at the exchange.
Ali then adopted his own southern accent to say: “Only them elitists know where Ukraine is,” before apologizing.
Lemon closed the segment by telling Wilson: “Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.”
Trump took issue with the segment, tweeting to his millions of supporters that Lemon was “the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!).”
Full transcript of the segment below:
<blockquote>CNN’S DON LEMON: Oh as I said, NPR is standing by their reporter after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused her of lying. It is the latest in a growing list of incidents involving Pompeo and journalists.
Joining me now to discuss, CNN Contributor Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson. Rick is the author of “Running Against the Devil.” Good evening, gents. Good to see both of you.
So, quite the story that we have here. Secretary of Pompeo is calling Kelly — calling her a liar but she says that she told them that she would — not only did she ask about Ukraine and she followed up in writing but she says that she never agreed for the exchange after the interview off the record.
So, Rick, who do you think is a liar here?
RICK WILSON, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Look, Mike Pompeo has become one of the high priests of Trumpism. In the core of Trumpism is a war on the media. And so I think Mike Pompeo is trying to cast himself as this hero and to please Donald Trump. This isn’t about whether or not she could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, this is part of their performative, you know, media hatred that they engaged on the daily.
LEMON: Wajahat, I want to bring you in. Mary Louise Kelly told NPR, an NPR co-host that before ending the interview, Pompeo, quote, leaned in and glared at her and then he tried to give her a pop quiz. I mean, what is with this intimidation mode?
WAJAHAT ALI, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, this is the pathetic insecurity of the spineless amoebas of men such as Mike Pompeo and the other men in Trump’s administration, right?
I mean, look, this is a recurring theme with Pompeo. He tried to intimidate a female reporter of the USA Today in May, he really doesn’t like it when female reporters in particular actually asking questions in our intelligence and do follow-ups. Our colleague in an affiliate in Nashville in August, same thing happened, and this time around he throws F bombs, he brings out a map. I mean, why does he have a map without countries? That’s so strange. And then she points it out. And who should we believe? Mary Louise Kelly, a veteran journalist or Mike Pompeo who this month alone has lied to the American public about imminent threats, right? And this man from Harvard has redefined imminent in a way which is completely the opposite of imminent. And then it was imminent threat to not imminent, then one embassy then four embassies. No casualties, 11 casualties, and now 34 casualties with soldiers suffering very traumatic brain injuries.
So, who are you going to believe? Mike Pompeo or Mary Louise Kelly who has the tapes? I’m going with Mary Louise Kelly.
LEMON: OK. So let’s see. Let’s look at the — OK. In the statement, Rick, the last line Pompeo’s statement says, it is worth noting that Bangladesh is not Ukraine. First of all, Kelly has a master’s degree in European studies from Cambridge University.
WILSON: Right.
LEMON: Also, he doesn’t really say that she couldn’t identify Ukraine on a map. He insinuates — it’s just a petty attempt to put her down, right? Is that what this is?
WILSON: Of course. Of course. It’s — he’s just trying to demean her, and obviously it’s false. And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb.
ALI: You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling even though —
WILSON: Your math, your reading.
ALI: Yes, your reading, you know. Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.
WILSON: All those lines on the map.
ALI: Only them elitists know where Ukraine is. Sorry. I apologize.
LEMON: Oh my God.
ALI: But you know what — it was Rick’s fault. I blame Rick.
LEMON: Oh my God.
ALI: But in all honesty —
WILSON: Blame Rick, why not.
ALI: — You know what NPR should do.
LEMON: Sorry, hold on. Wait, wait. Give me a second. Hold on. Hold on. That was good. Sorry. Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.</blockquote>

Ivanka Trump Slams CNN Panel For Mocking Trump Supporters

Almost two years after calling Ivanka Trump a &#8220;feckless c**t,&#8221; late-night host Samantha Bee is now praising the first daughter of President Trump for helping to pass a parental leave law allowing federal government employees to take up to 12 weeks off of work if they have a child.
“After decades of being behind every other country, the U.S is finally starting to make progress, thanks, in part, to lobbying from, believe it or not, <a href="https://people.com/tag/ivanka-trump/">Ivanka Trump</a>,” Bee said on &#8220;<a class="external-link" title="(opens new window)" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAGYH8VL4Gs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer">Full Frontal&#8221; </a>this week. “This administration approved a law that gives 12 weeks of paid leave to federal employees who give birth, adopt or foster a child.”
“I guess even a Trump has to do something right occasionally,” she added.
Just two years ago, Samantha Bee found herself at the center of controversy when <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/samantha-bee-tears-into-feckless-cunt-ivanka-trump">she called Ivanka Trump</a> a &#8220;feckless c**t&#8221; for allegedly not confronting her father on his immigration policy, prompting a massive backlash from conservatives and even some members of the mainstream media.
“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices you feckless c**t! He listens to you. Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f***ing stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”
Though hardcore media leftists defended Samantha Bee, others were less quick to be an apologist for her. CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-brooke-baldwin-blasts-media-double-standard-paul-bois">for instance</a>, said Bee used unacceptable language in reference to an accomplished woman.
“The same rules apply no matter which political side you call home,” Baldwin said on CNN. “Conservatives have been pointing to a double standard on how liberal stars who say these offensive things are treated, versus their conservative counterparts, and in many cases, rightfully so.”
“Whether you agree with the president’s policies or not, calling a senior adviser inside the United States government — or anyone for that matter — the ‘C’ word is, like I said at the top, it’s outrageous, it is unacceptable and should be called out,” Baldwin continued. “She could have easily made her point without using those words, a point that, by the way, is totally lost because she used that language. Doing this, she is no better than the very behavior she criticizes. In fact, she becomes part of the problem.&#8221;
After significant backlash, <a href="https://qz.com/1299620/samantha-bees-apology-for-calling-ivanka-trump-a-feckless-c-word-is-perfect/">Bee eventually apologized</a> for using the word &#8220;c**t&#8221; as an insult rather than a word she hoped to reclaim.
“A lot of people were offended and angry that I used an epithet to describe the president’s daughter and adviser last week. It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it. But this time I used it as an insult. I crossed the line. I regret it and I do apologize for it,” Bee said. “The problem is that many women have heard that word at the worst moments of their lives, and a lot of them don’t want that word reclaimed — they want it gone. And I don’t blame them. I don’t want to inflict more pain on them. I want this show to be challenging and I want it to be honest.&#8221;

Celebrities Visit BuzzFeed&#8217;s &#8220;AM To DM&#8221; &#8211; November 25, 2019

Samantha Bee Praises Ivanka Trump’s Family Leave Policy After Calling Her A ‘Feckless C**t’

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Samantha Bee

On Tuesday, White House advisor Ivanka Trump was confronted by aggressive CNN reporter and avid self-promoter Jim Acosta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Mr. Acosta rushed Ivanka as she was coming down a flight of stairs at the forum. &#8220;Your father’s impeachment trial is today, what are your thoughts?” he questioned the eldest Trump daughter. &#8220;Any comment on your father&#8217;s impeachment trial?&#8221;
Ivanka brushed off Acosta and walked around him. As she continued on her walk, Acosta can be heard repeating his questions concerning impeachment.
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acosta</a> catches up with <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Davos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Davos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF20</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cnn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cnn</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDMM9yIyQm">pic.twitter.com/gDMM9yIyQm</a>
&mdash; Matt Hoye (@mattyhoyeCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyhoyeCNN/status/1219604447619420161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta quickly commented on the interaction via Twitter: &#8220;Ivanka Trump declines to comment to [CNN] on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. #WEF2020.&#8221;
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Ivanka Trump declines to comment to <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4">https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4</a>
&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1219604724883906561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka&#8217;s eldest brother, jumped in to defend his sister and ridicule Acosta.
&#8220;Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington???&#8221; he quote-tweeted Acosta&#8217;s post via Twitter.
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Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington??? <a href="https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P">https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1219637944312639489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta had his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-secret-service-takes-jim-acostas-press-ryan-saavedra">hard press pass temporarily revoked</a> in 2018 after he physically pushed back against a young female White House intern trying to grab the communal mic.
&#8220;I’ve just been denied entrance to the [White House]. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the [White House] grounds for my 8pm hit,” Acosta posted at the time.
Then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement on the matter: “President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration,” she said. “We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.”
&#8220;This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter’s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history,&#8221; added Sanders.
Acosta has sparked issues with President Donald Trump on numerous occasions. Just last week, for example, the president told the reporter to be &#8220;quiet&#8221; after continuous interruptions.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-acosta-interrupts-one-time-too-many-trump-shuts-him-up-with-one-word">reported</a>: &#8220;President Trump spoke to reporters who were asking him about Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who claims Trump was aware of efforts to get information about rival presidential candidates. In the process, CNN’s Jim Acosta, as per his usual style, kept interrupting Trump, at which point Trump looked at him and shut him down, saying sternly, &#8216;Quiet.'&#8221;
After Acosta interrupted Trump at least three times, the president looked directly at the reporter and told him, “Quiet.”
In a post published Monday, Ivanka said she was attending the Davos forum on behalf of the White House.
“Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our #PledgetoAmericasWorkers and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States,” she announced.
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Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PledgetoAmericasWorkers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PledgetoAmericasWorkers</a> and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States.
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1219305872553209860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In December, Ivanka &#8220;touted the administration’s recent success in securing a new federal employee paid leave policy,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">Ivanka Trump Touts Another Victory The Trump Administration Has Achieved</a>

WATCH: Ivanka Brushes Off CNN’s Jim Acosta. Don Jr. Chimes In.

Donald Trump Jr.

Jim Acosta

Media Bias

On Thursday night, supermodel Karlie Kloss responded to jabs made at her expense due to her relation to the Kushners.
Kloss is married to Joshua Kushner, who is the brother of Jared Kushner, prominent White House advisor and husband to eldest Trump daughter Ivanka Trump.
Joining Bravo host Andy Cohen on &#8220;Watch What Happens Live,&#8221; Kloss was asked about an apparent jab &#8220;Project Runway&#8221; contestant Tyler Neasloney made earlier this month about the supermodel&#8217;s familial connection to the Kushners. After he designed a widely panned dress, Neasloney suggested Kloss could wear it to a &#8220;dinner with the Kushners.&#8221;
The remark elicited a meme-able stunned look from Kloss, as well as gasps from fellow contestants.
Neasloney, who was sent home, later apologized for the comment. “I want you to know that I’m not a jerk; I’m professional,” he told Kloss. “What I said earlier had no hidden agenda, no meaning, no nothing like that.”
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“I cannot see Karlie wearing it anywhere, honestly.”
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“I was honored to be one of the first memes of the decade. But honestly, the real tragedy of this whole thing is that no one is talking about how terrible that dress was. That’s why he went home,&#8221; the supermodel brushed off the controversy to Cohen, according to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/karlie-kloss-dinner-with-the-kushners">Vanity Fair</a>. &#8220;No, I would not wear that dress to any dinner,&#8221; she added.
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However, Kloss was unable to skirt the political issue, as Cohen pressed about an inside look into her politics.
“Andy, I’m sure I’m not the only person in this country who does not necessarily agree with their family on politics,&#8221; Kloss responded. &#8220;I voted as a Democrat in 2016, and I plan to do the same in 2020.&#8221;
“It was 2012 [when we met], it was a different world,” she later added, referring to meeting her now-husband. “My man and I have been through a lot together. I’m so proud that he’s my partner. It’s not been easy, but it’s worth it. I would make that same decision a million times again.”
As noted by Vanity Fair, the supermodel opened up to British Vogue last year about the political mix within the Kushner family.
&#8220;I choose to focus on the values that I share with my husband, and those are the same liberal values that I was raised with and that have guided me throughout my life,” the 27-year-old said.
Kloss, an open liberal, has promoted abortion facility Planned Parenthood in the past. In response to passed pro-life legislation in 2019, for example, the model took to Instagram to ask her fans to support to the abortion mill.
“I want to talk to you about what’s happening in my beloved home state of Missouri and around the country,&#8221; Kloss said, according to <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/11/headlines/model_karlie_kloss_asks_fans_to_support_planned_parenthood_in_abortion_ban_fight">Democracy Now</a>. &#8220;We are in an urgent public health crisis. And for the first time since Roe v. Wade, more than 1.1 million women of reproductive age in Missouri could be left without access to a single health center in their state that provides safe abortion care. Across the country, these bans are attacking our rights to own our decisions that affect our bodies and our health.”
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On tonight&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWHL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWHL</a>, supermodel <a href="https://twitter.com/karliekloss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KarlieKloss</a> addressed the viral Kushner moment from this season of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProjectRunway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ProjectRunway</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ud0pFdNxgd">pic.twitter.com/Ud0pFdNxgd</a>
&mdash; WWHL (@BravoWWHL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BravoWWHL/status/1218017600136978432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Karlie Kloss

Supermodel And Ivanka Sister-In-Law Karlie Kloss Responds To Political Jabs

He&#8217;d be 47, she&#8217;d be 43 on Jan. 20, 2025 – Inauguration Day.
And both already spend a lot of time in the White House.
A new poll found that Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump are two of the top four picks by Republicans for the 2024 presidential nomination.
The poll, conducted by <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/axiossurveymonkey-2024-presidential-vote-poll-gop/">Survey Monkey</a> and Axios, puts Vice President Mike Pence at the top of the list, with 40% of Republicans saying they&#8217;d vote for him in 2024. Trump Jr. had 29%, followed by former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley with 26%. And Ivanka, the president’s eldest daughter, came in at 16% support.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott were the only other candidates in double digits.
&#8220;An early poll like this is largely a measure of name ID. But it&#8217;s also a vivid illustration of just how strong Trump&#8217;s brand is with the GOP,&#8221; <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024-election-polls-republicans-60f37160-a4fb-48e6-b054-22bd303604a6.html">Axios</a> wrote.
<blockquote>The big picture: Don Jr. has emerged as one of the most prominent defenders of his dad, frequently going after the left on Twitter, where he has 4.2 million followers, and serving as a popular warm-up act for presidential rallies.</blockquote>
<blockquote>His book – “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,&#8221; released in November – reached No. 1 on the N.Y. Times nonfiction bestseller list.</blockquote>
<blockquote>In October, at a rally in San Antonio for president Trump&#8217;s re-election, the crowd chanted &#8220;2024!&#8221; as Don Jr. spoke.</blockquote>
Lloyd Green, a book reviewer for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/triggered-review-donald-trump-jr">The Guardian</a>, wrote that Don Jr.&#8217;s book was “a better campaign biography than most” and was “best viewed as the opening salvo of the Trump child with real political chops.&#8221;
The president’s oldest child, Green wrote, “truly connects with the party’s base” and “is convention speech [in 2016] warranted the attention it received.&#8221;
<blockquote>Don Jr offers a less impulsive and younger version of the incumbent. He’s a bona fide hunter and outdoorsman. For him, guns aren’t a prop. In a rifle-centric party, that counts for plenty. Unlike Jared Kushner, there’s a there there and he’s a lot more fun than Mike Pence.</blockquote>
“Bottom line, come 2024 Don Jr. could well be on the ticket,&#8221; Green wrote.
Ivanka has been even more active. She goes to the White House nearly every day and has the title &#8220;Adviser to the President.&#8221; She has worked on education programs and economic empowerment of women and families, including pay equity. &#8220;She has championed paid family leave, which she says is &#8216;grounded in conservative values of work and of family,&#8217; and said on the edition of CBS News&#8217; &#8216;Face the Nation&#8217; aired on Dec. 29: &#8216;[W]e have made more progress on paid family leave than in the 25 years since the Family and Medical Leave Act was passed,'&#8221; Axios reported.
Ivanka also travels the world to serve as Trump&#8217;s representative. She has also pushed the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.
“A White House initiative spearheaded by Ivanka Trump to help women in developing countries get ahead economically announced its first batch of grants on Wednesday: $27 million for 14 projects in 22 countries, mostly in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative was launched in February with an initial investment of $50 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development,&#8221; the <a href="https://apnews.com/f53f6d5853c84eccafc68d047a761244">Associated Press</a> reported in July.

Republican National Convention: Day Three

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Don Jr., Ivanka Trump Among Top Republican Picks For 2024

Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of President Donald Trump, touted the administration&#8217;s recent success in securing a new federal employee paid leave policy during an interview on Sunday and discussed the path forward for Americans who work in the private sector.
Trump made the remarks during an interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan, who noted that Trump &#8220;worked to get Republicans on board with what just ended up in the [National Defense Authorization Act] NDAA, which is to guarantee government workers 12 weeks of paid leave.&#8221;
&#8220;This has been years of discussion and education on the merits of paid family leave grounded in conservative values of work and of family,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And the reality is, the world has changed and it&#8217;s changed quickly. Today, women make up 47 percent of the workforce. Yet we provide the vast majority of unpaid care for children and, of course, adult dependents.&#8221;
&#8220;And it is not acceptable that in America today, one in four women go back to work two weeks after having a child. It&#8217;s just not acceptable,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;We can&#8217;t tell the private sector to step up and to offer these critical benefits to their employees and not be willing to do it ourselves&#8221;
&#8220;So you not only have this and this is huge, it&#8217;s a huge step forward in providing paid leave to all Americans, which is our ultimate objective,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;But we also, as part of tax reform, approved the first ever tax credit to employers offering leave to their employees making under seventy two thousand dollars a year, which are the people that are very, very unlikely to receive it. So incentivizing employers to step forward.&#8221;
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With the passage of the NDAA, <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> says getting Republicans on board with guaranteeing government workers 12 weeks of paid leave was the result of &quot;years of discussion and education.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qi4U2grhkY">https://t.co/qi4U2grhkY</a> <a href="https://t.co/0zuRRYLRdg">pic.twitter.com/0zuRRYLRdg</a>
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Trump said that when she arrived in Washington, D.C., a few years ago that she was surprised at how few Democrats tried to work with Republicans on the issue and said that she had to essentially start from scratch to get this done.
&#8220;So Republicans didn&#8217;t want a payroll tax increase that disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;So what are new solutions? We proposed the first ever bipartisan, bicameral plan that would allow people the flexibility to determine if they want to pull back- pull forward their child tax credit and then pay it back over 10 years. And by the way, paying it back over 10 years, they&#8217;d still receive an annual distribution that is dramatically higher than what they received prior to us passing tax reform.&#8221;
Trump noted that the biggest change that she has seen on the issue is the fact that both sides are no longer debating whether paid family leave is a good policy, they are debating on what is the best version of that policy.
&#8220;Oh, our goal is to ensure that paid leave is available to all Americans,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;But we&#8217;re putting forth new solutions. A payroll tax increase is not going to be passed into law anytime in the near future. So what are the other options? That&#8217;s why the Cassidy-Sinema bill is so interesting. It&#8217;s bipartisan co-sponsors in the House, in the Senate, and it provides people with flexibility. It is not a mandate on- on business. Oftentimes, small business cannot afford the mandate. So it creates flexibility and discretion for the benefit of the person who ultimately wants to use it.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> on why the issue of family leave had not been solved by previous administrations: &quot;The debate had grown stale. If we want to deliver relief to working parents who need this, we need to come up with new, fresh solutions.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fqFD9KK4cS">https://t.co/fqFD9KK4cS</a> <a href="https://t.co/UH2GObpvbh">pic.twitter.com/UH2GObpvbh</a>
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&#8220;How do you get a private business?&#8221; Brennan asked. You were in the private sector. You didn&#8217;t have a policy yourself in the beginning, but now you support it. How do you- do you ask everyone on your in your own business?&#8221;
&#8220;After I had employees, I did,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;So I think the fourth person I hired was pregnant when I hired her. So we put a policy in place for her. So everyone who&#8217;s ever had a baby at one of my companies has had access to leave.&#8221;
&#8220;So that, you know, that&#8217;s something I recognized as critically important,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;But I do think elevating awareness around the benefits to attracting and retaining the best talent this country has to offer. It is in companies self-interest to do this. And that&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve seen employers increasingly adopt paid leave.&#8221;
&#8220;I had a conversation with Doug McMillan, the CEO of Walmart, about how important this policy was in the first year of the administration,&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;Walmart adopted and expand upon their- their parental leave policies following tax reform. I got a call from- from Doug right after they announced the policy change and he said, you know, it was the most popular thing we did, even more than raising our wage, offering that benefit.&#8221;

Ivanka Trump Touts Another Victory The Trump Administration Has Achieved

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

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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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

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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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Meet Winter, Arabella’s birthday dream come true and the newest member of the Kushner family! <a href="https://t.co/Y1cHTvnBGm">pic.twitter.com/Y1cHTvnBGm</a>
— 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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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The dog will fit right in. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/itswhiteenough?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#itswhiteenough</a>
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1152767473290231808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Good thing it’s a white dog. Your dad hates the blacks .
— 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 ‘Unwanted Ivanka’ 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

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

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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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Full transcript provided via <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ryan-foley/2019/03/13/cnns-begala-calls-ivanka-and-jared-cockroaches-president-trump">NewsBusters</a>:
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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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