Posted on 04/05/2017 11:22:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In her first interview since becoming Assistant to the President, Ivanka Trump addressed critics who have said she and her husband, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, are “complicit” with President Trump.
“If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I’m complicit. I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing,” Trump said. “So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”
In March, “Saturday Night Live” also parodied the president’s daughter in a commercial skit for a perfume called “Complicit.”
Trump also shared why she doesn’t publicly speak out on issues ranging from Planned Parenthood and gay rights to climate change....
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Time will tell.
Your not the only one.
Eh, they don’t bother me. Ivanka thinks what she is doimg is important, but it’s little PR crap like equal pay and women’s empowerment stuff. If Jared sticks to the Middle East, no harm there either. Trump has an extremely small circle of people he can trust.
I don’t care what their philosophy is. Jared and Ivanka brought the Mercers, Bannon, and Kellyanne into the Trump team after Cruz folded and they deserve a lot of credit for him getting elected.
This is family. Despite the fact that they will dig and slander and spin every word and action to try to get Ivanka or Jared to dump on Trump it will never happen, they are bound tighter than any normal advisors have been, and are loyal.
You could not pay men enough money to get me to dump on my father. They are the same way.
Would that be BiggerBob? :-)
I still think that Cruz thing at the RNC convention was a WWE/Kabuki theatre skit to consolidate Trump’s support within the GOP and that Cruz was totally in on it. As you say, the same people who backed Cruz backed Trump. Remember where Don Trump comes from.
CBS was wordsmithing to catch Ivanka in an “Aleppo Moment”; like Gary Johnson.
Ivanka let an assumption in the question stand, that being complicit with her father was somehow a bad thing. She should have shot that down.
No doubt she and her husband are a liberal influence in the WH, and that’s not a positive for the issues that got Trump elected.
I don’t care what her beliefs are. She wasn’t the one to get in the ring to run for President. If she is a liberal, that is not our business at all. This poor young lady is bashed on all sides and she is a very nice woman from all I can see.
[[“If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I’m complicit. ]]
The problem is that her idea of ‘force for good’ is much much different than most people who voted for Trump’s idea of what ‘good’ is- Hers an her husband’s subjective view on good is anything liberal- climate change, socialized government payed for care for children, etc-
I agree for the most part except the part about her being a liberal and not our business. It is our business if someone who is liberal is advising our President.
I don’t think she is liberal though. She may lean left a little but is a moderate at worst. I think she’s more pragmatic than anything else and like all women today; she wants to continue to make all opportunities for women the same as they are for a woman. There’s also the abortion issue which is so complex and as a guy I don’t feel all that qualified to say what a woman should or shouldn’t do with their own bodies before a certain gestation point such as 20 weeks. IMHO there is lots that can be said after that point though.
I’m slowly developing an opinion of what the Trump doctrine is in general and by extension his daughter and son in law and his cabinet. I think he, as a professional and accomplished businessman who knows what works and what doesn’t but also knows when to fold ‘em and when to hold ‘em, is not easily labeled as either a straight up republican, a conservative, or an establishment GOPe guy. He’s more pragmatic. He looks for what works in a legal and above board way to get done what he believes needs to be done. So far, other than the o’care lite bill, I have been pretty much in lock step with his message and actions. Winning isn’t always a straight line goal; sometimes it zigs and it zags. A small loss today may mean a big win tomorrow. He may not have a Harvard vocabulary but his mind sure works like he does.
It’s such a refreshing change from the lawless putz we just had and the GOPe style W. had. I don’t trust the GOPe anymore than I trust the dems. Their goals appear shared more often than not.
Oops; same as they are for a man...
Don’t seem to have core conservative values? They have core liberal Democrat values!
Ivanka’s political thinking could hardly be more shallow and knee-jerk Manhattan leftist. Her comments in this interview ooze, “I am just as liberal as my criti! Just watch, hubby and I will make my father’s administration liberal enough to do us proud!”
It is fraud to have them in running things rather than those who actually believe in the platform he ran on.
Her being a liberal is only our business if she gets in her father’s admin and pulls him to the left of what we voted for.
And that is exactly what she is doing!
She and Jared belong back in NY. Send Don Jr doen to DC if anyone.
Her being a liberal is only our business if she gets in her father’s admin and pulls him to the left of what we voted for.
And that is exactly what she is doing!
She and Jared belong back in NY. Send Don Jr down to DC if anyone.
The only reason I am not happy that the ACA didn’t pass was because it looked like a failure on Trump even though it wasn’t. I am pissed off that Trump started with that disaster anyway. Insuring every American is a daunting job and should have waited until after mid-terms. I wish I were on Trump’s team because the first order of business after cabinet selection would have been filling the 100 vacant judges across America that could be filled by now. I wouldn’t have done a thing until that was done (except meeting with anybody dealing with jobs). The ACA was a three part process and we didn’t even get to part 1. And on top of the travel ban not going anywhere, I don’t like how things have gone so far. Now perhaps Trump is waiting on the Supreme Court nominee to be confirmed as that we have a 5-4 again. I recommend we make it an 11 judge Supreme Court because if we end up with a 7-2 Supreme Court, the Democrats are going to add numbers to the total to get it back to either even or Democrats in the majority no matter the number added.
They arr liberal Democrat family and they don’t belong handling policy in Trump’s admin.
It is fraudulent bait and switch to run on the platform he did—and then hand his administration over to his liberal Democrat son-in-law.
I disagree. Ivanka is an employee who has her opinion on things BUT still follows her fathers agenda. He is after all the Boss. As far as Donald Jr, no thanks. He needs to run the business as I don’t think Ivanka has enough experience to do it. As far as Ivanka bringing up child care and other women’s issues, well the real problem I have is we can’t afford it. However, if we get this country running again and get a handle on the debt then we can have nice things. Heck even a family has SOME luxuries that are not necessary IF they are not in debt.
Ivanka and Jared are too liberal to be involved in Trump’s White House. Many on FR are not their fans.
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