Ivanka on migrants: She was "heartbroken" by tear gas, but Daddy didn't authorize lethal force

[Miles Archer]

Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Believe Her Father Authorized Lethal Force Against Migrants. He Did.

“He’s not talking about innocents,” she later clarified.

INAE OH NOVEMBER 28, 2018 9:45 AM

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/ivanka-trump-lethal-force-migrants/

Ivanka Trump says she was heartbroken after seeing images this week of US border patrol agents firing tear gas into crowds that included migrant children. In an interview on Good Morning America Wednesday, she also claimed that the ongoing situation at the border makes her “angry.”

But when asked about the president’s recent decision to authorize the military to use lethal force on migrants, the first daughter—who serves as a senior adviser to her father—appeared to be learning the news for the first time. Visibly perplexed, she also suggested it was likely untrue.

“I don’t believe that’s what he said, but his primary role as commander-in-chief is obviously to protect the nation’s borders,” Ivanka Trump said. “He has to protect our country’s security. But lethal force, in this case, that is not something that anyone is talking about.”

One problem: That’s exactly what her father is talking about.

“If they have to, they’re going to use lethal force,” Trump told reporters from Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. “I’ve given the OK, if they have to. I hope they don’t have to.”

[avebury]

1. They need to use the Tim Russett playbook from

Meet the Press. There needs to be a screen set up behind the idiot being interviewed and when you ask him/her about something that so and so said and they deny it - cue up the video of so and so saying whatever he/she said.

Give them no wiggle room by showing them the proof.

[niyad]

2. hey, you clueless, ignorant twit, STFU and go play with your slave-made crap.

[madinmaryland]

3. Ivanka gives me migraines, also. nt.

[guillaumeb]

4. Did Susan Collins of Maine express concern?

As much of a liar as her father.

[madaboutharry]

5. Is there a photo of her anywhere in which

she isn’t posing for a glamour shot?

I have never seen any photograph of this women in which she isn’t trying to imitate Audrey Hepburn. It’s pathetic.

Apologies to Audrey, who I am sure was a lovely person.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. you sure that's a photo of her?

That may be a construction by Mattel -- Birther Barbie, just in time for Xmas!

[George II]

6. "Daddy" DID authorize lethal force. She may be the only person in the country who denies this.

[Solly Mack]

7. That was her job during the interview - to put her face on a lie while backing the policy.

"Visibly perplexed"

is a cultivated look for seasoned liars considered attractive.

“He’s not talking about innocents,” she later clarified

First she claims the images bothered her - of children being gassed.

Then she claims her daddy never said to do it.

Then she "clarifies" - it's only supposed to happen to the bad people. (the whole "innocents" comment)

Completely ignoring that Trump claims they are all bad people doing something illegal.

Ivanred's job was to look pretty, pretend she cares, and - most of all - to lie.

[gratuitous]

14. And our faultless military folks know who's innocent and guilty just by looking at them

Our armaments also have the magical quality of hitting only the guilty refugees. It'd be a frickin' miracle, except for those nay-saying libtards and fake news talking about those crisis actors and grabbers getting in the way of the tear gas.

[Solly Mack]

16. Exactly.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Go suck rotten eggs, Ivanka.

You're trash.

[EleanorR]

9. She's nothing but a cowardly, corrupt enabler nt

[Hekate]

11. Actually he DID, you entitled moron. He ordered troops to shoot to kill "if anyone threw a rock." nt

[malaise]

12. Hey Ivanka

Fuck you and daddy too!

[smirkymonkey]

13. She makes me absolutely sick!

[lilactime]

15. Bullshit. She has a cash register, not a heart.