The new monarchy
Let me get this straight: Ivanka Trump — who has myriad business interests that overlap with her father’s – is now moving into the West Wing as a top White House advisor, getting a security clearance and government-issued communications devices. But she’s not being sworn in, will hold no official position, and so will not be a government employee who must by law adhere to official ethics rules.
Doesn’t the Trump administration have enough ethics problems? Aren’t there already enough conflicts of interest to sink a ship?
Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, is now an official senior adviser in the White House – but at least his status is an official government employee, he was sworn in, and he has to abide by ethics laws. Why can’t Ivanka do the same?
Ivanka still owns her eponymous fashion and jewelry brand, and is also publishing a book, “Women Who Work,” due out in May. But she says she’ll distance herself from the day-to-day operations of the Ivanka Trump brand and convey her interests to a trust that will be controlled by her brother-in-law, Josh Kushner, and her sister-in-law, Nicole Meyer.
Oh, sure.
It’s as if a coup has occurred, and the dictator’s family has now moved into the palace — and are about to the loot the country. The utter disdain of the Trumps for ethics is jaw-dropping.
It’s my understanding that there’s a law against presidents installing family in their administrations. Bill Clinton flouted it, but Trump is setting fire to it.
What conceivable relevant qualifications does Ivanka Trump have to do such a job?
Qualifications have a well-known liberal bias. Trump is manfully shattering all such expectations! Drain that swamp!
As for yet another ethics/legal violation – none of the rest have caught up with them. This isn’t likely the worst – Trump’s own refusal to sell all his stuff and put it in a blind trust is likely that. It’s not likely that they expect more problems from sheer accumulation. In fact, additional violations make for additional reporting, for cover against anything they’re doing that could bring them down; they serve to wear down the people who care with yet more crap to follow; and they help normalize the conduct of the administration as a criminal enterprise. In for a penny, in for a pound.
She is fully as qualified as her father is to be president.
As if?
People are calling her “First Daughter”. So icky.