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Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing: http://reut.rs/2q11uwc
This Der Spiegel cover from last week looks prescient
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Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing: http://reut.rs/2q11uwc
This Der Spiegel cover from last week looks prescient
According to Politico, some senators and aides are thinking that this briefing may only be a ploy to get a photo op, for Drumpf's 100 day mark.
According to Politico, some senators and aides are thinking that this briefing may only be a ploy to get a photo op, for Drumpf's 100 day mark.
According to Politico, some senators and aides are thinking that this briefing may only be a ploy to get a photo op, for Drumpf's 100 day mark.
Seems like every meeting he has is just for the cameras.
BERLIN — Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin on Tuesday morning armed with facts and figures to recite at what was expected to be a highbrow international summit to discuss women's entrepreneurship, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But on her first international trip as an official representative of the United States, the first daughter was put on the spot about her father's attitudes toward women, booed and hissed at by the crowd, and grilled by the moderator about what, exactly, her role is in President Donald Trump’s administration.
“You’re the first daughter of the United States, and you’re also an assistant to the president,” said the moderator, WirtschaftsWoche editor-in-chief Miriam Meckel. “The German audience is not that familiar with the concept of a first daughter. I’d like to ask you, what is your role, and who are you representing, your father as president of the United States, the American people, or your business?”
It was an aggressive opening line of questioning for the first daughter, who was seated next to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and one seat down from Merkel. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands was also a participant on the W20 Summit panel, which Ivanka Trump attended at Merkel's invitation. And it appeared to put her on the spot.
“Certainly not the latter,” Trump said. “I’m rather unfamiliar with this role as well. ... It has been a little under 100 days, and it has just been a remarkable and incredible journey.”
She did not define what her new role as a senior White House official entailed but said she cares "very much about empowering women in the workplace" and defined her goal as enacting “incremental positive change. That is my goal. This is very early for me; I’m listening, learning.”
The questions asked of Trump seemed more direct than those about women in the workforce posed to other panelists. But there was also a lot of curiosity ahead of her visit here about Trump's new role in her father's administration.
Trump, who was deeply involved with her father’s campaign and has been instrumental in his administration in the first three months in office, positioned herself as someone who is still in humbling listening-tour mode. “I’m striving to think about how best to empower women in the economy,” she said, at one point calling herself a feminist. “I have no doubt that coming out of this trip I’ll be more informed.”
But she was booed and hissed at by the majority-women audience at the conference when she lauded her father for supporting paid-leave policies. “I’m very proud of my father’s advocacy,” she said, calling him “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive.”
Meckel, the moderator, pushed her to address the vocal disapproval from the audience.
“You hear the reaction from the audience,” she said. “I need to address one more point — some attitudes toward women your father has displayed might leave one questioning whether he’s such an empowerer for women.”
During the campaign, more than a dozen women went public to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, unwanted advances and assault. Ivanka Trump did not comment on those accusations during the campaign, and on Tuesday she dismissed the criticism via her father’s favorite enemy — the press.
“I’ve certainly heard the criticism from the media, that’s been perpetuated,” she said, drawing laughs from the audience.
And despite being invited to attend the panel by Merkel in her role as a senior White House official, she defended her father from her vantage point of loyal daughter — a crouch familiar from when she was confronted by uncomfortable questions about her father on the campaign.
“As a daughter, I can speak on a very personal level,” Ivanka Trump said. “I grew up in a house where there was no barrier to what I could accomplish beyond my own perseverance and tenacity. That’s not an easy thing to do; he provided that for us.” She said that her father treated her exactly the same way he treated her two brothers, who now run the family business. “There was no difference,” she said.
Trump also credited her father’s administration for hiring women in important roles.
“The team basically going through the vetting and hiring process — six out of eight of those people are women,” she said.
The apple doesn't fall far from the orange. Using a whole lot of words to say a whole lot of nothing. The difference is unlike her father she doesn't come off as illiterate and uses full sentences and better sentence structure to talk around the questions.
Her answers are very Miss America-ish. Like I'm sure she was very pretty when she said them and the answer had similar words the question had but there's no actual depth or meaning
this one got me:Yankees are those that live above the Mason Dixon. But the irony in that statement is that the southerner tells the black person that they shouldn't look at the Confederate flag as a symbol for racism.wait. whut?! aren't Americans = Yankees?"Nothing.."
^^I hope there's video of this. Shoutouts to Deutschland
Dudes love America soooooooo much but wanna keep reminiscing about the time they tried to leave
Breitbart News was stymied once again on Tuesday in its efforts to secure press credentials on Capitol Hill.
The standing committee of correspondents of the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery, a panel of journalists that determines which news organizations should receive congressional press passes, voted to table Breitbart's bid for permanent passes and to discontinue the right-wing outlet's temporary credentials without an extension.
Breitbart's temporary credentials expire on May 31.
In a statement, Breitbart spokesman Chad Wilkinson said the outlet is "unequivocally entitled to permanent Senate Press Gallery credentials and is determined to secure them."
The committee's primary concern, rather than its generally pro-Trump stance, appears to be Breitbart's ties to Rebekah Mercer, whose family partly owns the outlet, as well as the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative nonprofit that was co-founded by former Breitbart chairman and current White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Mercer, whose father Robert is a wealthy hedge fund manager and prominent Republican donor, is the chairwoman of GAI's board of directors.
The group's other founder, Peter Schweizer, is a senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News.
In a letter submitted last week to the committee, Breitbart president and CEO Larry Solov asserted that Mercer "has no editorial control at Breitbart News Network" and that Breitbart and the Government Accountability Institute "are separate and independent companies, with separate and different boards and management."
"We have fully and faily cooperated with your inquiries in good faith, and believe that we have met and responded to the concerns you have raised," Solov said in the letter, which was reported by the Daily Beast. "[Breitbart] is an editorially independent news organization and is entitled to and deserves issuance of its permanent Senate Press Gallery credentials."
Solov also used the letter to "correct one thing," informing the committee that Wynton Hall stepped down as managing editor of Breitbart in February. Hall has been on GAI's payroll as a "communications strategist," according to filings with the IRS.
The committee's decision on Tuesday marks another setback in Breitbart's quest for permanent credentials. It was denied in its bid last month as well.
CNNMoney (New York)
First published April 25, 2017: 12:08 PM ET
Isn't Breitbart a ally of #45?
Breitbart denied congressional press passes
Breitbart News was stymied once again on Tuesday in its efforts to secure press credentials on Capitol Hill.
The standing committee of correspondents of the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery, a panel of journalists that determines which news organizations should receive congressional press passes, voted to table Breitbart's bid for permanent passes and to discontinue the right-wing outlet's temporary credentials without an extension.
Breitbart's temporary credentials expire on May 31.
In a statement, Breitbart spokesman Chad Wilkinson said the outlet is "unequivocally entitled to permanent Senate Press Gallery credentials and is determined to secure them."
The committee's primary concern, rather than its generally pro-Trump stance, appears to be Breitbart's ties to Rebekah Mercer, whose family partly owns the outlet, as well as the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative nonprofit that was co-founded by former Breitbart chairman and current White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Mercer, whose father Robert is a wealthy hedge fund manager and prominent Republican donor, is the chairwoman of GAI's board of directors.
The group's other founder, Peter Schweizer, is a senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News.
In a letter submitted last week to the committee, Breitbart president and CEO Larry Solov asserted that Mercer "has no editorial control at Breitbart News Network" and that Breitbart and the Government Accountability Institute "are separate and independent companies, with separate and different boards and management."
"We have fully and faily cooperated with your inquiries in good faith, and believe that we have met and responded to the concerns you have raised," Solov said in the letter, which was reported by the Daily Beast. "[Breitbart] is an editorially independent news organization and is entitled to and deserves issuance of its permanent Senate Press Gallery credentials."
Solov also used the letter to "correct one thing," informing the committee that Wynton Hall stepped down as managing editor of Breitbart in February. Hall has been on GAI's payroll as a "communications strategist," according to filings with the IRS.
The committee's decision on Tuesday marks another setback in Breitbart's quest for permanent credentials. It was denied in its bid last month as well.
CNNMoney (New York)
First published April 25, 2017: 12:08 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/25/media/breitbart-news-congressional-passes/index.html
If she wasn't Trump's daughter surewood
If she wasn't Trump's daughter sure