Hey, remember when Ivanka Trump first moved to Washington back in January and she assured everyone that she would not be playing a formal role in her father’s administration?
Psyche!
Two months later, she’s picking out the furnishings for her very own White House office.
According to Politico:
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The powerful first daughter has secured her own office on the West Wing’s second floor — a space next to senior adviser Dina Powell, who was recently promoted to a position on the National Security Council. She is also in the process of obtaining a security clearance and is set to receive government-issued communications devices this week.
That’s right, folks. The first daughter is getting all the perks of an official government employee, minus a salary… or the nuisance of being sworn in, any actual job responsibilities, or being legally accountable for anything.
According to her attorney, Jamie Gorelick, Ivanka will serve as her dad’s “eyes and ears” by providing input on random things she has absolutely no knowledge about.
Said Gorelick, “Having an adult child of the president who is actively engaged in the work of the administration is new ground. Our view is that the conservative approach is for Ivanka to voluntarily comply with the rules that would apply if she were a government employee, even though she is not.”
So let’s get this straight… Americans are paying for Ivanka to be an official White House “volunteer” with security clearance and her own office, computer, cellphone, etc., but no official job title. On top of that, we’re just supposed to trust that she follows all the rules of a government employee, but if she doesn’t, there’s absolutely no way to hold her accountable.
Do you find that incredibly irritating? Maybe these memes will help…
Related: Ivanka Trump slapped with major class-action lawsuit for ‘unfair competition’
whatevz
all the lying greedy old racist needs now needs now is the company his dumb foreign gold-digging escort and their ‘special needs’ spawn
natekerchel
There is absolutely nothing this family can do that will surprise or shock me now. Trump runs the White House/USA like it is his personal company. That is why he gets so annoyed when the media or courts hold him to account – who are they to tell him how to run his own company! He seems to have forgotten those pesky little things called the Constitution and the rule of law.
It is simply outrageous that this woman is given an office, let alone be sitting in on meetings with world leaders. If you are going to have any kind of role in the government of the USA you should be employed on the same basis as everyone else – in this case any employment is unlikely. So we have a politically illegitimate president offering a non-job to his daughter. The fact that there is no salary is irrelevant. Well with her fathers ability to avoid taxation that saving more than covers it anyway.
tanglewood
You guys are a bunch of dick heads
Know the facts before you start
Spewing fake news
First the secret service is for all
Present and past presidents and there
While family second she graduated
Top of her class and is a rich girl
In her own right and non of the trumps
Are collecting a salary period!
Giancarlo85
That is total BS. They are spending millions of tax payer money for protection in Florida and New York. Learn the facts first you idiot.
CaliKyle
Since facts matter – Ivanka did not graduate “top of her class” from college.
o.codone
Gian85 is back from deportation. Girl, they will find you AGAIN and you will have to swim the Rio Grande still one more time to get back here to your mothers basement. Some day soon you’re gonna have to face it, you can’t live here illegally. Aren’t there Carvel stores in Mex where you can work?
DCguy
Wow, o.codone, thanks for making it so obvious how racist Trump Supporters are.
Giancarlo85
Ocodone is a mentally unstable man who uses Obama care for his meds. Ignore him.
Neonegro
lol..lol..lol…thank you again o.codone
Kieran
No “agenda” here folks! (except that one to make the new President hate us)
Giancarlo85
The New Prez under a super active FBI investigation and several other inquiries… Yeah the agenda for the truth! Better than what a beaten down log cabin type, like yourself, can offer.
Giancarlo85
This new “President” is also no longer legitimate. Enjoy the next few months kieran. I expect you to be whimpering when the investigation explodes and Mr. Trump is impeached and prosecuted.
BTW, I will call him “Mr. trump”, but never President.
mhoffman953
@Giancarlo85 What makes him not legitimate? He won the Presidency. The NSA and FBI director both admitted that there was no vote tampering and not votes were changed.
Giancarlo85
Trump didn’t win the Presidency. He stole it with special assistance from the Russians. Keep it up, hoffy. I’m not going to recognize nor defend this idiot of a “leader” who has no business being in the White House. Oh by the way, he’s done a pretty shitty job so far. He’s down to 37% approval in one poll. I think he’s aiming for 29%!
Giancarlo85
So when Trump is prosecuted where will you be, hoffy? Oh that’s right. Blubbering like the little hypocritical sell-out you are. F-k your views and screw you. I’m so sick of you gay conservatives. You are worse than rubbish.
mhoffman953
@Giancarlo85 You sound like you’re having an extremely hard time coping with the fact that Donald Trump is your President. Also, Trump won’t be prosecuted. The FBI found in the fall that there was no connection between the Trump campaign and Russia. I could flip the question on you, where will you be when the FBI finds there is definitively no connection? Will you claim the FBI is wrong?
Giancarlo85
The FBI has found strong evidence according to recent testimony. Trump isn’t president. He is illegally occupying the white house. By the way, there is already strong cases for impeachment. You just can’t see the writing on the wall.
You are an idiot. That is the problem. They will find wrongdoing because much of it already has resulted in resignations. They are just building the case now. Trump is toast. Sorry to say.
Giancarlo85
Oh and Trump isn’t my president. Not my president and I don’t have to recognize him as such.
And he will be prosecuted. You are a sad little man… You can’t accept what is coming.
mhoffman953
@Giancarlo85 If you live in the United States, then he is your President. You sound like you’re having a temper tantrum.
Also, you alleged in the past that the voting machines were hacked in the past election. You said this is fact but the FBI and NSA directors said emphatically that this did not happen. Are you going to admit you were wrong on that one?
DCguy
The Trump Trolls all do the same thing. DESPERATELY avoid the actual topic of the post. The Nepotism of Ivanka not having a title, but getting a job without defined duties. Her business conflicts of interest and unwillingness to abide by ethics rules, etc…
Giancarlo85
This Hoffy guy is lying again. He can’t help himself. He doesn’t even know to read. I destroyed him on the topics of Bobby Kennedy, Proportional Representation, and health care. He just runs away like a child.
Mo Bro
Ivanka Trump has permanently taken up residence in the heads of the left, and it is glorious to behold the resulting mental illnesses rearing their ugly heads.
I suspect it makes for a truly miserable existence to so often be so angry over so little, but hey, you’re doing it to yourselves.
DCguy
The boring Trump Troll desperately trying to avoid the topic.
What is the topic you ask? Oh, well let me tell you, the topic is that the party of Ronald Reagan is now the party scrambling to collude with a foreign enemy of the United States, and the party where the president of the United States is hawking family trinkets and funnelling taxpayer money into his own picket.
As far as Ivanka taking up residence in the heads of “The Left”. Thank you for exposing the entire political platform of the GOP. The party has no beliefs anymore, their only platform is trying to do whatever they think will upset “The Left”. And you, as a not very intelligent troll gleefully thinks you’ve accomplished something. Well, Ivanka used to market over 7000 different prodcuts, last count she was below 2000, her line has been cancelled by 5 major national retailers and her father is being investigated for colluding with a foreign power.
Yeah, things sure are going well for her.
Giancarlo85
Little Mobit. You are so sad. Desperate too. Afraid what the FBI investigation is going to turn up? One analyst says this is worse than Nixon and Watergate already. You gotta choke back on the tears. BTW, I will post the article shortly.
Giancarlo85
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-faces-his-hardest-truth-he-was-wrong/2017/03/20/af9cabfc-0d83-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
There is a smell of treason in the air…
Somebody argued with me yesterday with how serious this was. It is much worse than you think. I believe the evidence is being collected as we speak, and that Trump will be out of office in as little as a year, along with Pence who is also implicated.
Bob LaBlah
It was clear at todays hearing Sen. Lindsay Graham of SC taunted the president on with his selection of a by-the-book judge and the strong possibility of his having done “something” that is clearly being investigated with all of those in the know stopping dead short of saying “he is guilty”. A GOP controlled senate and house but yet its clear none of his bills are going to pass because even they (the GOP members) are turning on him. This guy is toast.
He was being mocked and taunted by a high ranking member of the party (Graham) who made it clear that he was not joking about Trumps antics and tweets and that he is not immune from the law. If that wasn’t a hint to start packing your bags pal I don’t know what else could be.
Giancarlo85
Bob. I hope so. I hope he is indeed toast. Toast indeed. Sad. So Sad. Very. Very. Very. Sad.
MacAdvisor
I think Trump is a buffoon, not up to the office, and general, an all around fool. HOWEVER, as President, he can call upon the advice of anyone, even his daughter, he thinks best. Frankly, given some of his other advisors, she is a cut above. There isn’t any real cost to the tax payer (the office would be there in any case) and, even if there was, he has a right to the advice. When there are issue such a new rule allowing coal companies to pollute streams and destroying Obamacare, I simply cannot get worked up over his daughter getting an office in the White House.
Giancarlo85
Not quite. There are costs associated with giving someone security clearance and office. But I don’t really care for this story. My issue is the fact the man spent tens of millions already on plane trips to that dive bar in Florida and to play golf. Oh and he uses his laptop on the open WiFi there too.
DCguy
Actually there are major conflict of interests since she is supposedly running his businesses and not supposed to be talking to him about them. They are supposed to be in a blind trust etc… and yet she has an office in his building. So no, it’s a major breach. Additionally security clearances allow her to access information and the family is being investigated for collusion. There are some major problems.
Giancarlo85
DCGuy, thanks for pointing that out. I did overlook that.
Well… when this administration is knee deep in manure, it gets hard to keep track of every breach and all the misconduct.
mhoffman953
@DCguy She’s not running his businesses. The sons Don Jr. and Eric are running the businesses along with the other members of the management team at the Trump Organization. Ivanka stepped down from the Trump Organization and from her clothing line to move to Washington with her husband.
Security clearances vary in scope and level. All advisers have a security clearance. Some advisers have more of a security clearance than others. Someone working as a low level adviser like a Stephen Miller wouldn’t have clearance to be privy to CIA classified documents for example.
natekerchel
The issue is not simply that she has an office – it’s that she is being described as the ‘eyes and ears’ of her doting father who happens to be occupying the Oval Office for the moment. So she is like a spy? The class tell-tale? The odious man has access to so many advisers – why does he need to have an ‘eyes and ears’? Given that a great amount has been made of her business acumen and responsibilities we have to ask the question – how can there not be a conflict of interest? In addition, why is she involved in meetings with world leaders? As I said before – this politically illegitimate ‘president’ is first and foremost a businessman whose main interest is to exploit people for his own benefit. The promotion of her business using all the prestige of the White House is evidence that there is a conflict of interest.
MO Bro – the only angry people are trump and his incompetent coterie. Trump is just mentally unstable of course. Being critical of what he and others are doing is not the same as being angry. For me personally it is a question of making judgements on how people are behaving in high office – anger does not factor into it.
Giancarlo85
Hoffy, you don’t have proof for anything you say and you can’t support your assumptions. You are lock in step with Donald Trump and you agree with everything the man has done. You perpetually back him up even when he’s wrong. You’re the new bald assertion man on this website. This family is so corrupt and it’s so blatant.
“All advisers have a security clearance. ”
No. They don’t.
mhoffman953
@Giancarlo85 Um…if they are advising the President regarding intelligence briefings then yes they do get a security clearance and yes there are various levels of security clearance.
If you want proof, here you go: http://www.voanews.com/a/security-clearance-explainer/3602747.html
Even as that article I posted above points out, none of this is scandalous. JFK did the same with his brother.
Giancarlo85
JFK’s Brother, Bobby Kennedy was an actual administration official, you fool. He also had actual credentials to be in the position he was in. He was the Attorney General of the United States and was approved by Congress. Ivanka is doing nothing and shouldn’t be getting clearance.
You typically ignored the rest of my post like the troll you are.
Bob LaBlah
Isn’t this how Hillary Clinton began to make herself important to the masses? Stay tuned folks. Her comes another one. Just wait.
Giancarlo85
Hoffman – “I’ll do anything to defend Trump even by sacrificing what little dignity I have left! TRUMP IS ALWAYS RIGHT, ALWAYS… ALWAYS! JUST ABOUT ALWAYS!”
Asshat.
mhoffman953
@Giancarlo85 Robert Kennedy became Attorney General AFTER serving as an adviser to JFK on the transition team, not before. Please post historical facts in order.
And I did not ignore the rest of your post which pertained to this topic. I pointed who which jobs are eligible for security clearance.
Giancarlo85
Hoffyboy, you don’t know your basic history and you don’t know what the f-k you’re talking about. ARe all you gay conservatives the same? Stupid? Bobby had CREDENTIALS. Ivanka doesn’t. Ivanka doesn’t even have experience.
And I can’t believe you’re comparing Ivanka to Bobby Kennedy. That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Comparing a New York SENATOR (who sat on countless committees) and Navy Veteran to a nobody loser.
You’re a moron. You didn’t read my entire post.
Giancarlo85
BTW, Kennedy sat on the Army-McCarthy hearings and potentially had access to sensitive information prior. He was Chief Counsel. As a Senator he most likely reviewed sensitive, classified information. Bobby also requested confidential information from J. Edgar Hoover in the case of Annie Lee Moss.
How is that for your history?
Jack Meoff
WOW the Trump trolls have inundated this thread as well. The Trump family are using American tax players like a cash machine.
Mo Bro
Considering Obama put us $10 TRILLION further in debt, Trump is downright miserly.
Sincerely,
Trump Troll
Giancarlo85
Except Obama didn’t do that and Trumps tax plan would add $7 trillion to the debt. Keep drinking the koolaid, moe.
DCguy
Mo Bro, since you’re a liar, and I am straight up calling you that. Please put up a link to back up your lie. If you can’t, then you have just exposed that nothing you say is reliable to everybody on here.
Oh, by the way, if you think we all don’t know you’re BJ <cFrisky under another screename you aren't just a liar, you're stupid.
jckfmsincty
She gets a security clearance from her father just because he wants to bang her?
natekerchel
You forgot to mention mhoffman that Robert was the campaign manager for the 1960 election campaign. He was named as Ag immediately after the election – if you bother to read just about any biography of either brother you will find that they had already agreed his appointment if they won – and was approved by the Senate in the usual way. He became a close adviser to the President’s transition team in the full knowledge that he would be the AG. Those are the historical facts mhoffman – so you need to stop telling other people to get it right when you don’t get it right yourself. To try and compare Kennedy to Ms Trump is preposterous. But it is yet another mhoffman attempt at deflection and counter-blame. And just as unsuccessful as previous attempts. Get your history books out mhoffman and start reading.
mhoffman953
And I did state that he worked as an adviser and later became AG after the election. My point (which you are ignoring) is that a President elected a family member as an adviser because he trusts the opinion of that family member. This isn’t anything new.
Giancarlo85
Hoffman you are a fool. Bobby already had access to sensitive documents prior as a Senator. He served on several committees, including one that caught Joseph McCarthy in several lies.
Bobby could be trusted. Ivanka doesn’t have the background to be on a position of power, nor does most of this incompetent corrupt administration.
Giancarlo85
BTW the appointing of Ivanka will cost this country money. Nepotism with some completely unqualified to be in the White House. Bobby had a legal background and was a sitting Senator. Apples and oranges.
Seems like Trump wants to hire his daughter for a fake job.
o.codone
The haters are breaking new ground with personal attacks against the President’s children. It’s never been done before, the “press” has ALWAYS been hands-off the first children. Until now. But remember girls, you cannot have it both ways. In the last 8 years did you ever hear anyone get shitty on Sasha Obama? The poor thing has an IQ of 70, special ed teachers and a behavior management therapist. But nobody ever said a word about that, did they?
Jack Meoff
Ivanka is an adult and influencing her fathers decisions so you can hardly compare the two situations
Giancarlo85
so are you upset your Obama care is going? You must be so angry your ability to get your meds will disappear. Your mental health is so fragile.
There are no personal attacks going on. Facts are coming to surface, including the massive FBI investigation on your man and many of his allies. I predict arrests, impeachments and convictions.
ChrisK
As Jack said she’s an adult that works for her father. Fair game. How many times did those on your side attack Michele though?
natekerchel
Even for a trump troll that comment is low class. Ms Trump is a legitimate target because she made herself one.
natekerchel
Mhoffman – you twist and turn with the wind and try to distort the facts. I will say again as you obviously did not get the point first time – Robert Kennedy was campaign manager for his brother, BEFORE the election they agreed he would be AG, then he became part of the transition team – the point is that he was not an official adviser before it was known he would be AG. Ms Trump can never be compared to Robert Kennedy in any sense. Apart from that – what are her qualifications for this ‘job’? Oh wait – she sells tacky clothes – badly.
Giancarlo85
Bobby was also a sitting Senator who had access to sensitive documents and files. He served on several committees too. I think he probably had clearance already to a certain degree.
The fact Hoffy compared Ivanka to Bobby was the funniest nonsense I heard all day.
Giancarlo85
Lol. François Fillon got busted for paying his wife with state money for doing fake jobs. It basically has torpedoed his political campaign and career. He has collapsed in the polls.
No consequences for Trumpy though and the Trump trolls continue to defend him.
Giancarlo85
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-21/france-s-fillon-earned-54-000-fixing-putin-meeting-canard-says
Torpedoed. Not just fake jobs now too…
French people see through this fake man. LePen is in similar hot water for misusing EU money to pay political staffers.
Americans weren’t smart enough to see the corruption of Trump, like the French are with Fillon and Le Pen.