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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Lieu has questions for Ivanka Trump - who blocked him on Twitter
Link to tweet
Oh wait, she blocked me, a Member of Congress, because my questions bother her.
Let me correct that. She blocked me, a Member of Congress who will be in the majority, because my questions bother her.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)Subpoena, baby.
erronis
(15,241 posts)Little precious must feel vulnerable since daddy is far away and hubby kushner seems "distant" - as if there are other thinks on his mind.
It's ok, precious. Go back to your fake jewels and your fake life. Maybe you can write a fake account of your life with your fake father and various mothers.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... eom.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)Had not seen the first princess in quite a while. She looks scary thin....my first thought was she is worried sick about going to prison.
DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)More likely, silicone is leaking and migrating throughout her body and to her brain.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Time to bring her in for some long hours of testimony!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)hostalover
(447 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)'Let me correct that. She blocked me, a Member of Congress who will be in the majority, because my questions bother her.' That's what naval types might call a shot across her bow...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)"Try her personal email, Congressman. Maybe she'll respond to you then."
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)And a ghastly orange jumpsuit if she refuses to appear before Congress when she is supeonaed.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)her hair color.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Today's internet winner!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)calimary
(81,250 posts)Or teeth whitening. Or hair highlights or weaves. Or mani-pedi treatments. No salon visits of ANY kind. Or personal trainers. Or wardrobe of designer workout clothes. Might actually do her some good.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)A judge already ordered Trump to unblock people from his Twitter account, since he was using it for official public business. Such Twitter accounts are deemed public forums, and government officials who block people from the Twitter accounts they use for official business are violating the 1st Amendment.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)suit her. Imagine how she'll sulk and pout under questioning from a Congressional committee!
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/ivanka-trump-cosmo-interview/index.html
"Ivanka Trump cut short an interview with Cosmopolitan published Wednesday after being asked about some of Donald Trump's past comments about childcare and maternity leave.
Trump criticized the interviewer for having "a lot of negativity" in her questions.
Trump had hoped to highlight the Republican presidential nominee's new childcare policy, which she helped craft and introduce this week.
But the candidate's daughter bristled when interviewer Prachi Gupta asked, "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?"
"So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions," Ivanka Trump said, according to Cosmopolitan's transcript. "So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this, if you're going to make a comment like that."
She said the question was "an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women."
Gupta pressed on: "I would like to say that I'm sorry the questions -- you're finding them negative, but it is relevant that a presidential candidate made those comments. So I'm just following up."
"Well, you said he made those comments. I don't know that he said those comments," Trump said.
Presented with the source of her father's quote -- an NBC interview in 2004 -- Trump shot back that "there's plenty of time for you to editorialize around this," and again pitched the campaign's new childcare policy.
"I hope that regardless of what your political viewpoint is, this should be celebrated," she added.
Trump also clashed with Gupta when asked why the campaign's paid leave proposal didn't apply to gay couples or include paternity leave. She said that the reason the proposal wouldn't include to those groups is that "the original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth."
"So I just want to be clear that, for same-sex adoption, where the two parents are both men, they would not be receiving special leave for that because they don't need to recover or anything?" Gupta asked.
Trump said: "Well, those are your words, not mine. Those are your words. The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not."
She said child-bearing mothers in lesbian couples would be eligible under the plan.
When Gupta pivoted to asking Trump about how Donald Trump proposed to pay for some of his most expensive policy proposals -- such as the border wall with Mexico, infrastructure investment, and increased defense spending -- Trump said that the policies would all be paid for as a result of the Trump campaign's forthcoming tax reform plan.
Shortly thereafter, she cut the interview off.
"I'm going to jump off -- I have to run. I apologize," Trump said." ....(more at link)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Only to you, Ivanka. The interviewer was giving you a wide open field to say that Daddy dearest's 2004 comments were a long time ago, and no longer reflect Daddy's new, enlightened stance as represented by the 2016 proposal. Instead, it was time to put on the pout, whine, and skedaddle.
UpInArms
(51,283 posts)She is a staffer in our White House
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)as anyone who has interviewed her can attest. "Staffer" sounds like "The Help". Can't have that. The real staff call her Princess...probably not in the normal meaning of the word. Probably a few other things that have yet to leak out.
UpInArms
(51,283 posts)Shes a staffer
Javaman
(62,530 posts)that will be much watch tv. lol
czarjak
(11,274 posts)Im jealous he gets to do something about it.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)And just as big as her Dad.