Ivanka Trump and her husband help thwart a rollback of gay rights

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — The two most influential social liberals in President Donald Trump's inner circle — daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner —helped kill a proposed executive order that would have scrapped Obama-era LGBT protections, according to people familiar with the issue.

A third, Gary D. Cohn, chairman of the president's National Economic Council, a Democrat who was brought to the West Wing by Kushner and reflects the socially liberal and economically conservative views of many Wall Street power brokers, privately told aides to the president that he was disturbed it was even being considered.

The executive order has exposed what is likely to be a persistent schism in Trump's paradoxical presidency: He is a cosmopolitan New Yorker who has long operated in an environment where sexual orientation is often an afterthought but is nonetheless beholden to the social conservatives who backed him overwhelmingly in 2016, despite reports of his crudeness and sexual misdeeds.

Kushner, a lifelong Democrat, and Ivanka Trump, an independent, travel in liberal social circles and have long supported LGBT rights. Neither had seen the order before details were leaked. They expressed their dissatisfaction to Donald Trump's other advisers, and then weighed in directly with the president, who opposes same-sex marriage but has spoken out against discrimination.

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[AlexSFCA]

1. sounds promising

if true.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. She just did that because stores are dropping her brand like someone who grabbed a spider

They only understand money No humanity in that crowd

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I'm sure homophobia is declasse among her elite friends.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. If he really gave a shit about glbtq rights he would have nominated as Supreme Court justice in ...

If he really gave a shit about glbtq rights he would have nominated as Supreme Court justice a jurist in the mode of Anthony Kennedy and not Antonin Scalia.


Oh, fuck Ivanka and Jared and the horses they rode in on.

[GaYellowDawg]

5. I'm very glad that EO was thwarted.

But I still think they're horrible.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Sound like something their PR company wrote.

Necessary damage control to upkeep their image?

[Vinca]

7. What did they do . . . threaten to take away date night with Ivanka?

[kcr]

8. Well, that's something. They helped get him elected

So mitigating the damage is the least they can do, if they are so horrified by what Daddy is doing.

[Bengus81]

9. Kushner...a lifelong Democrat??

And he's running with this crowd?? Ah well....CASH and plenty of it can evidently make up for all the horror this POS President is bringing to this Country one day at a time.

[tanyev]

10. President Bannon will wait a couple weeks and get it signed during a future shabbat.

[hatrack]

11. Oh, horseshit . . . .

This is right up there with Ivanka's deep concern about climate change, and Melania's commitment to stopping cyber-bullying.

It's in abeyance, and when President Shitstain needs to whip up the winger megachurch voters, back out of the closet it comes.

Ivanka and Jared, our Secret Friends in the West Wing - fucking spare me.

[mercuryblues]

12. President Bannon

Will fix that ASAP. I wouldn't be surprised if Bannon was drugging trump over the weekends.

[jmg257]

13. Well - some more good news that is, but let's shit all over it.

A draft executive order on LGBT rights that outlines how to roll back former President Barack Obama’s protections and expand legal exemptions based on religious beliefs has been circulating among journalists and worried progressive groups this week.

But two sources close to Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who have a record of supporting gay rights, said the couple favored putting out a clear statement from the president, promising to uphold the 2014 Obama executive order and stopping the momentum for the turnaround in its tracks.

On Tuesday night, the White House released a statement saying that “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.”

“The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump,” the statement continued.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-lgbt-order-234617