Ivanka Trump got Chinese trademarks approved, then dined with China's president

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By Erika Kinetz and Anne D’Innocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS APRIL 18, 2017

SHANGHAI — On April 6, Ivanka Trump’s company won provisional approval from the Chinese government for three new trademarks, giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world’s second-largest economy. That night, the first daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, sat next to the president of China and his wife for a steak and Dover sole dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

The scenario underscores how difficult it is for Trump, who has tried to distance herself from the brand that bears her name, to separate business from politics in her new position at the White House.

As the first daughter crafts a political career from her West Wing office, her brand is flourishing, despite boycotts and several stores limiting her merchandise. U.S. imports, almost all of them from China, shot up an estimated 166 percent last year, while sales hit record levels in 2017. The brand, which Trump still owns, says distribution is growing. It has launched new activewear and affordable jewelry lines and is working to expand its global intellectual property footprint. In addition to winning the approvals from China, Ivanka Trump Marks LLC applied for at least nine new trademarks in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Canada and the U.S. after the election.

The commercial currents of the Trump White House are unprecedented in modern American politics, ethics lawyers say. They have created an unfamiliar landscape riven with ethical pitfalls, and forced consumers and retailers to wrestle with the unlikely passions now inspired by Ivanka Trump’s mid-market collection of ruffled blouses, shifts and wedges.

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[Orrex]

1. This is actually a wise strategy

See, once she starts selling her Chinese products to North Korea and the people there become hooked on her cheap garbage, she can threaten to stop selling to them unless they abandon their nuclear program.


You have to think of the long game, people!

[JudyM]

11. That's it, of course, because she is so willing to sacrifice personal profit for country.

Like her dad, I'm sure.

[Orrex]

12. Doh!

Your joke was better than mine.

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. What I want to know is, who actually BUYS her ugly crap?

Oh yeah, Kellyanne does... and probably lots of people like her.

[kimbutgar]

3. A friend of mine just got back from seeing her family in China

She said they hate chump and tv makes fun of him and thinks he is a buffoon. I doubt she will have success selling her crap. The name chump means crap there.

[yallerdawg]

4. Using a government position for personal gain...

is the very definition of political corruption.

It doesn't seem to bother Republicans too much. Another distinct difference between the two parties. It bothers the hell out of us!

[Fast Walker 52]

6. #GOPcorruption #GOPcrooks

[DK504]

9. Isn't that illegal?

Yet another crime uncovered. How many will it take?

[Fast Walker 52]

5. This seems blatantly grossly unethical, if not outright illegal

FUCK!!!! How do Repubs get away with this shit?

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Grifters

with a capital G.

[barbtries]

8. this shit cannot be legal

how can it be stopped? it's so unamerican! aaaargh

[Duppers]

14. Yes.

She's officially a gov't employee, is she not? There are stiff rules about this sort of thing.

[notdarkyet]

10. Didn't she stand in front of cameras and say she would follow all the ethic rules of a government

Employee? They have turned the WH into a trump biz. FU them all.

[maxrandb]

13. Fuck the God Damn Media Too

Just check out this paragraph, and then imagine a scenario where a paragraph like this would appear if this story were about Chelsea Clinton, Sasha Obama or any Democratic Presidents children.

"The scenario underscores how difficult it is for Trump, who has tried to distance herself from the brand that bears her name, to separate business from politics in her new position at the White House."

No you fucking Boston Globe stenographer!!!! It doesn't "underscore how difficult it is"...and just who in the fuck has evidence that Ivanka "has tried to distance herself from the brand that bears her name"???

For something to be "difficult", you actually have to try to do it!

Oh My God...those poor Trump kids, they just try to be so ethical.

I think the Founding Fathers would have hung a "journalist" like this guy.

"Oh, poor King George...he just tries to be a fair and righteous ruler, but it's just soooo difficult

[Vinca]

15. Aw, come on people. She's doing it for us. Getting all those trademarks means she can set

up a factory in East Overshoe, Maine and manufacture all kinds of products to send to China under her newly trademarked brands.