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Post by Admin on Dec 3, 2020 19:33:40 GMT
Ivanka Trump was deposed on Tuesday as a part of an ongoing lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general, which alleges the misuse of funds from President Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, new court documents show. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued Mr. Trump's inaugural committee and the businesses overseeing Trump International Hotel in Washington back in January, claiming the nonprofit inaugural committee coordinated with Trump family members to overpay for event space in a way that enriched the Trumps. Racine claims the inaugural committee knew it was paying above-market prices and failed to consider cheaper alternatives. The lawsuit, filed in D.C. Superior Court, alleges more than $1 million was wasted on improper payments to the Trump Hotel for event space during the 2017 inauguration. The elder Trump daughter, as a senior adviser to the president, has been intimately involved in the inner-workings of the White House and assisted her father with the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Ivanka Trump confirmed the deposition in a tweet Thursday morning, saying she spoke with officials for more than five hours.
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Post by Admin on Dec 11, 2020 4:44:55 GMT
vanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three children took a late-night stroll around Washington, DC’s historic monuments on Tuesday and posted the images on social media just weeks before her father will leave the Oval Office. President Trump’s 39-year-old daughter from his first marriage to Ivana Trump smiled as she stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and posed for a selfie with the lit-up Washington Monument and the memorial’s reflecting pool in the background. Ivanka also posted an up-close image of the statue of Honest Abe as well as a photo of the neoclassical temple-style memorial as its columns were illuminated. On Twitter, Ivanka posted images showing her husband and three children posing in front of the statue of Lincoln. Another photo shows the couple's four-year-old son, Theodore James Kushner, peering out toward the Washington Monument from inside the Lincoln Memorial.
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Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2020 3:57:08 GMT
Ivanka Trump courted criticism on social media after claiming that coronavirus lockdowns were not supported by scientists.
"These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in science," she tweeted. "These arbitrary rules imposed by callous politicians are destroying lives. It is just wrong for small business owners to have [fought] so hard to keep their American dream alive."
Ms Trump shared a video alongside her tweet in which a business owner yells at health inspectors who were sent to issue him a citation for flouting closure orders.
Commenters pointed out that while the business owner was rightfully frustrated, the conditions that forced him to close his restaurant were largely due to President Trump’s inability to respond to the virus effectively.
“It will never stop amazing us that in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century, rather than turning to doctors and scientists, the closest advisors to the president were his fashion-brand owning daughter… This is why we need tighter nepotism laws”, the Citizens for Ethics organisation tweeted.
"None of this would even be happening if you had listened to the scientists from the start ... but you didn't and now... hundreds of thousands are dead and things are happening in local communities that seem chaotic. Don't blame them for the chain of events you started," he wrote.
Ms Trump's handle on what the scientific community has to say about lockdowns is questionable, at best.
Research published in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed health journal, explained that though lockdowns are damaging to the economy and public morale, when used by countries to buy time for a proper response to the pandemic, they have proven effective.
However, countries who squandered the time they bought during their lockdown periods "these effects have often been worse."
The study noted that "in the absence of adequate provisions to manage the pandemic and its societal impacts, these countries have faced continuing restrictions."
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Post by Admin on Jan 6, 2021 0:13:38 GMT
First Daughter Ivanka Trump raised eyebrows on Monday with a selfie of herself and her dad shared on Twitter and Instagram, in which the president — who could be seen staring down at his phone rather than the camera — was mistakenly tagged with the handle for the singer Meat Loaf. "Off to Georgia with dad! Get out and VOTE Georgia!!! 🇺🇸" the younger Trump, referencing the Georgia Senate runoff elections, wrote as the caption for two photos of her and her dad aboard Air Force One. In the first photo, Ivanka can be seen smiling at the camera, while in the second, she offers a more stoic look. The president, meanwhile, is looking down at his own phone in both photos. As Twitter users noted, Ivanka failed to tag her dad Donald Trump in the photo, instead tagging the singer Meat Loaf, known for his power rock ballads such as "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" and "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)." "Ivanka Trump accidentally tagging MeatLoaf instead of her dad is the best thing to have happened in 2021 so far," consultant Andrew Bloch wrote. Meat Loaf's handle has since been removed from the photo, which is now tagged with Trump's handle and that of the GOP's official account. http://instagram.com/p/CJpGCo3hpEN
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2021 19:23:04 GMT
Karlie Kloss, who rarely publicly discusses her connection to the Trump family, said Wednesday that she has tried to persuade her brother and sister-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election. As pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. amid the meeting to ratify the Electoral College presidential election votes, the 28-year-old model spoke out about the unrest on social media. "Accepting the results of a legitimate democratic election is patriotic. Refusing to do so and inciting violence is anti-American," she tweeted. In response, one Twitter user replied to Kloss' message, calling on her to "tell your sister in law and brother law," in a since-deleted tweet. In a follow-up message, Kloss replied, "I've tried." Kloss — who is currently expecting her first child — is married to Joshua Kushner, Jared's younger brother. Jared and Ivanka, both 39, are senior White House aides. Ivanka is also, of course, the daughter of President Donald Trump. Earlier on Wednesday, Ivanka faced backlash online for a deleted tweet calling the violent mob that stormed the Capitol, "American Patriots." Ahead of the mob breach on the Capitol building, President Trump addressed the crowd of his supporters near the White House at a rally. In his speech, he encouraged them to go to Congress and voice their anger "peacefully and patriotically" — even as he described Democrats as trying to "illegally take over our country" and warned, "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
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