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Witness Describes Ivanka Trump's JetBlue Incident
Gothamist ^ | December 23, 2016 | Ben Yakas

Posted on 12/23/2016 9:12:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Yesterday, a couple was kicked off a JetBlue flight before it left JFK after they expressed their displeasure with fellow passengers Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Brooklyn lawyer Dan Goldstein and his husband Matthew Lasner, a Hunter College professor, and their child were removed from the San Francisco-bound flight around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. But while TMZ and other outlets initially reported that Goldstein was "screaming" and "out of control" when he confronted Trump, at least one eyewitness had a very different take on the incident.

Marc Scheff, who sat in the "next row up from Ivanka," wrote in a Facebook post that Goldstein did not yell, but was agitated when he realized who else was sitting in coach.

When he got on and saw her, sitting behind me, he said "oh my god. This is a nightmare" and was visibly shaking. He said "they ruin the country now they ruin our flight!" (Context: Boarding and therefore the flight was delayed because they needed to get on first through some other way)

He did not yell. He was also not what I would describe as calm. Agitated for sure. His husband behind him was very calm. His son is adorable and sharply dressed. When the JetBlue staff went back to speak to the man I overheard Ivanka say to them "I don't want to make this a thing." My assessment is that she was happy to let the man take his seat. She handled the situation calmly and with class. Security made the call to remove the man.

And for good reason. The man's calm husband had tweeted earlier that his husband was "chasing them down to harass them."

I did not witness his actual removal some rows back. If he screamed, I didn't hear it.

Lasner wrote a series of now-deleted tweets before and after the confrontation occurred: In the initial tweet, sent out around 9:15 a.m., he wrote, "Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5, flying commercial. My husband chasing them down to harass them. #banalityofevil." Then about an hour later, Lasner wrote, "Ivanka and Jared on our flight. My husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone, JetBlue staff overheard, and they kicked us off the plane." In a final tweet, about 20 minutes after that, he tweeted the photo of Ivanka with the caption, "Ivanka just before @JetBlue kicked us off our flight when a flt attendant overhead my husband expressing displeasure about flying w/ Trumps."

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Personal politics aside, Scheff thought the airline made the right decision to remove the family from the flight: "Honestly, if I was her security I would have made the same call. I don't think the man was capable of violence, sure. But I would worry that he would leave his seat or cause a scene in some way. And his husband had tweeted that he planned on doing that." He added, "I'm less concerned about verbal attacks on Ivanka Trump than I am about the attacks on our civil liberties and institutions by the incoming administration."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told NBC that the President-elect was "obviously disappointed but he’s proud that JetBlue took the appropriate action." In another interview, he called the incident harassment and "un-American," adding, "Ivanka is the epitome of class and grace. And I think she exhibited that yesterday. This individual … put out a tweet that he wanted to go and harass her. And JetBlue made the right call by doing that. But Ivanka and Jared and the kids were trying to enjoy a private moment."

After they arrived in San Francisco, the Trump-Kushner clan then boarded a private jet to Hawaii; it's unclear why they weren't flying a private jet to begin with. For what it's worth, in a rare show of local tabloid unity, both the Daily News and NY Post were in agreement that Goldstein should have been removed for the plane outburst.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Travel
KEYWORDS: fags; falsepremise; homosexualagenda; huntercollege; ivanka; ivankaharrassed; jfkairport; mattlasner; mentalillness; trump; trumpfamily
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To: fatman6502002; 2ndDivisionVet
On your post #23.

I am gratified that you certainly did read all of this man's statement. I read it and thought this -”Scheff is a shill”.
Well maybe not quite. I was further informed by the link you posted of who this individual is. I do find in my own use of FR, that if I do not read carefully, a wrong conclusion can be reached.

Live and learn. (chuckle)

61 posted on 12/23/2016 9:51:25 AM PST by Peter Libra
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
""Ivanka is the epitome of class and grace. And I think she exhibited that..."

Ivanka was probably getting ready to go all "La Femme Nikita" on his ass:


62 posted on 12/23/2016 9:52:26 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

If not already, sorry SOB’s! Pure educated liberal TRASH!


63 posted on 12/23/2016 9:55:07 AM PST by WNC mountainboy (Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.)
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To: I want the USA back
Welcome to 2016. We have little computers you can carry in your pocket that also double as telephones, cameras, books, maps, games and much more.
64 posted on 12/23/2016 9:55:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
donates to PP and SJW causes.

Just very slightly curious, what are PP and SJW? Some kinda queer faggot clubs? (if to filtly to print, just skip it)

65 posted on 12/23/2016 9:56:37 AM PST by Mr Apple ( Let's play.........Hide the Muslim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59J0i3LNoY8)
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*filthy


66 posted on 12/23/2016 9:57:19 AM PST by Mr Apple ( Let's play.........Hide the Muslim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59J0i3LNoY8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

24 hours of this story and I saw on Morning Joe that it was not Ivanka alone, on Jet Blue, with her three children, but her entire family, including Jarred!

Did I miss something?

All sources played this as if she were alone with her kids. No SS security. No husband. Just a defenseless mother?

What was that all about?


67 posted on 12/23/2016 9:58:19 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: hal ogen

Which one of their uteruses (uteri?) produced the child?


68 posted on 12/23/2016 9:58:53 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

24 hours of this story and I saw on Morning Joe that it was not Ivanka alone, on Jet Blue, with her three children, but her entire family, including Jarred!

Did I miss something?

All sources played this as if she were alone with her kids. No SS security. No husband. Just a defenseless mother?

What was that all about?


69 posted on 12/23/2016 9:59:20 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Flaming Sword sSwallowers?


70 posted on 12/23/2016 10:00:59 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

Husmo


71 posted on 12/23/2016 10:02:11 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: 2banana

Gays keep kids like pets.


72 posted on 12/23/2016 10:07:19 AM PST by madison10 (Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brooklyn lawyer Dan Goldstein and his husband Matthew Lasner .... that’s all I needed


73 posted on 12/23/2016 10:07:27 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Mr Apple

PP- Planned Parenthood
SJW - social justice warriors.

I hate acronyms. .)


74 posted on 12/23/2016 10:07:43 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
People sure seem intent on using the word "husband" to describe this guy's friend.

ML/NJ

75 posted on 12/23/2016 10:09:26 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: RaginRak

It’s child abuse. Perversion.


76 posted on 12/23/2016 10:10:12 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: JudyinCanada

It happened because, with the help of the media, Hollywood, and liberal politicians, anyone who speaks out and makes a commonsense statement that two men cannot be married, two men cannot have children, and that allowing homosexual men or women to care for children is harmful to them, is branded a bigot, homophobe, and overall evil person.


77 posted on 12/23/2016 10:11:06 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My only question, Ivanka and her family should be under Secret Service cover. Where were her protection? They should have taken care of the queer before it got out of hand.


78 posted on 12/23/2016 10:11:44 AM PST by Big Mack (I love this country.It's the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: RitaOK

I read yesterday that her husband and several of her cousins were on the flight with her. One of the earlier reports.


79 posted on 12/23/2016 10:11:56 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Mr Apple

Planned Parenthood and Social Justice Warrior.


80 posted on 12/23/2016 10:12:52 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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