Ivanka Trump cuts off Cosmo interview after tough questioning

[Botany]

Source: CNN

CNN)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.

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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?"

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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.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/ivanka-trump-cosmo-interview/index.html

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Facts and the Trumps not so much.

[Fast Walker 52]

1. Bwahaha. Couldn't take the heat.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Ivanka Trump lied claiming their businesses give paid maternity leave. They don't. Only Federally

They give only the federally mandated 12 weeks UNPAID leave.

Just like Trump lied about doing so much at his buildings for the disabled when all he did was the federally mandated minimum and only after he had to be called out on it.

[madokie]

3. tRumps

don't do facts, nor explanations. Only engage in obfuscations and outright lies

[Botany]

9. What don't you understand about giving tax cuts to the rich will pay for other ...

... things such as building the wall?

The whole Trump running for President is just one big con.

[leftynyc]

4. The trumps are not used to being

questioned. They're used to spouting off their bullshit and nobody calling them on it.

[BootinUp]

16. Yep. Nt

[saidsimplesimon]

5. K&R

Thank you, Cosmopolitan and Gupta, well done

[turbinetree]

6. And now the dumpster wants to give deductions instead of child credit

so the working poor making squat wages would have to wait an entire year when they file taxes, and the deductions doesn't mean anything because you then have to qualify to get the deduction and wait a year, while child credit gives the middle class and the working poor credit and when they need it, or money back to help immediately during the month.

And this "person" wouldn't know child credit if it was standing right in front of her, especially if you have never gone hungry

David Cay Johnson and Donny Edwards nailed this last night on Lawrence O'Donnell show and if you looked from 7:10 through 7: 17, they pretty much explain the difference.

https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20160915_020000_The_Last_Word_With_Lawrence_ODonnell#start/840/end/900

[SunSeeker]

8. Exactly. Trump lied when he called it a credit. nt

[turbinetree]

11. This is just amazing

and he and she the dumpster family think that if the Ayn Rand head and his party retain the Congress that they are going to pass this---------you betcha, in a heart beat, and then they continue the means test on to something else like medicare and social security, people have got to wake up and see what these people are trying to do, and some in the media just don't have the skill sets to be asking these tough questions-------------------none, and the owners and producers are just fine with this "stuff" amazing, they got theirs and now to hell with everyone else

[Justice]

7. Sad that toughest questions for Trump campaign come from COSMO.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. I guess she's used to people drooling after her.

[adigal]

12. She is as bad as her father, with his touchy-feely hands all over her

And her enabling him and even representing him in public.

She is just a pretty monster.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Dump the Trump

[George the Retiree]

14. "You've been mean to me!"

"And as soon as I go to bed tonight, I'm telling Daddy!"

[MrScorpio]

15. A "tough" interview by COSMO?

Are they serious?

Cosmo specializes in puff... I know, wifey has a subscription. If Ivanka can't handle a Cosmo interview, of all things, these people can't handle the ins and outs of the day to day workings of the White House.

This has to be the worst political campaign I've ever seen in my life.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Yeah, that wasn't a 'tough' question, just a reasonable one to ask

and asked in a fairly gentle way, really. It gives a good opportunity to say "well, the difficulties facing new mothers have become more apparent over the past decade, and as a businessman, you're reluctant to increase your costs by offering benefits that your competitors don't. By making this a national policy, it will ensure that all women benefit, and that employers who do the right thing won't get pushed aside by those who don't look after their employees". There, I can spin a (pretty pathetic) flip-flop for him far better than his daughter can, off the top of my head.

But we have to remember that Trump is running the campaign on the cheap, or for family profit. So he's using family members as spokespeople, despite their lack of expertise, aptitude, or humanity (well, I guess the last is a feature, not a bug, for him).

I'll repeat the rules I think Trump is campaigning, and lives, by:

Trump Rule #1: never pay anyone outside the family if you can possibly avoid it
Trump Rule #2: Always prepare so that you can sue people, whether for profit, revenge, or shits and giggles

[nightwalker]

17. Trump Jr. interview cut off after charity questions

Seem's it happened again.

Donald Trump Jr.'s interview with a Pennsylvania TV station ended abruptly after a reporter asked the Republican presidential candidate's eldest son about Washington Post reports that Trump used foundation funds to pay for a portrait of himself at an auction.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-jr-foundation-charity-interview-228223

[2naSalit]

18. Awww...

Poor baby.

[SCantiGOP]

20. Ambassador to Russia?

Is that the job she will get? If it happened she would be a multi-billionaire in less than a year.

[AgadorSparticus]

21. The truth is so inconvenient sometimes. These people are ridiculous.

[wordpix]

22. Besides, she has her clothing brand made in china

Make America great again! Riiiight

[TomCADem]

23. God forbid that the media asks a simple question about Trump's actual proposals

You can see why so many media outlets give them a free pass.