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| Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Chevalier(op): 4:25pm On Mar 30, 2017 |
Ivanka Trump will take an official government role as an unpaid adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, the White House announced on Wednesday. The first daughter, whose husband Jared Kushner also works as a senior advisor to the president, will not receive a salary for her work as a federal employee. Kushner, a real estate developer, is also unpaid. "We are pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this step in her unprecedented role as first daughter and in support of the president," a White House statement said. "Ivanka's service as an unpaid employee furthers our commitment to ethics, transparency, and compliance and affords her increased opportunities to lead initiatives driving real policy benefits for the American public that would not have been available to her previously." In the couple of months since her father became president Ivanka, 35, has been a regular presence at the White House, where she already has an office. She was present when her father received Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in January, and earlier this month took part in a round-table discussion with President Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel during the German leader's visit to the White House. Her involvement with her father's official duties has raised eyebrows in some quarters over possible conflicts of interest. But Ivanka, who was part of her father's business empire and ran a fashion line, said those qualms are unfounded. "I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules, and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees," she said in a statement. "Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House Counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role." Neither Kushner nor Ivanka Trump has any experience in elected office or public policy. In addition to raising questions over possible conflicts of interest, the young couple's influence on the president has fueled broader debate on the absence of clear boundaries between the Trump family's business dealings and its member's political activities. Ivanka Trump's lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, told the news website Politico last week that the president's daughter will have access to classified information and be bound by the same rules that apply to other White House advisers who are on the government payroll. "Our view is that the conservative approach is for Ivanka to voluntarily comply with the rules that would apply if she were a government employee, even though she is not," Gorelick told the outlet. "Having an adult child of the president who is actively engaged in the work of the administration is new ground." Part of the novelty stems from the fact that relatives of elected officials cannot legally be hired for most federal jobs due to potential conflicts of interests. Yet Trump succeeded in getting Kushner on board at the White House by arguing that the executive office of the president was not covered by federal anti-nepotism rules. Kushner said that by putting his interests in a trust, and not being paid for the job, he could avoid the rule. Kushner's family business has invested some $7bn in property acquisitions in the past decade, often with overseas partners - and his father-in-law now is formally in charge of financial regulation. Two Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tom Carper of Delaware, sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday saying that Ivanka Trump's "increasing, albeit unspecified, White House role ... (has) resulted in substantial confusion," and questioned how her ethics compliance would be ensured. Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/ivanka-trump-president-adviser-170330043937842.html
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| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by delishpot: 4:45pm On Mar 30, 2017 |
Family business white house is their store location |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by ikp120(m): 5:32pm On Mar 30, 2017 |
Family business! America sorry! |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Yarduni: 7:02pm On Mar 31, 2017 |
trump likes ivanka's pussiyy this much? |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by juman(m): 6:28am On Apr 02, 2017 |
If it was done in a third world country, the western media would be crying day and night condemning it as nepotism. Presently, america democracy is not a good model. |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Lucasbalo(m): 5:00pm On Apr 02, 2017 |
Yarduni:The scam artist named Trump is turning the White House into Father and Daughter Pop Shop. America,s Democracy has gone to the dogs. |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Yarduni: 8:25pm On Apr 02, 2017 |
Lucasbalo:He will be impeached soon |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Lucasbalo(m): 8:31pm On Apr 02, 2017 |
Yarduni:Do not raise your hope too high on that because his party controls The House and The Senate. Things are going so bad for him now that he's always in reactionary mode. Russiagate will be his death knee and the press and American people won't let go. It's gonna be interesting four years for the clueless clown in the Oval Office. |
| Re: Ivanka Trump To Become US President Adviser by Rossikk(m): 4:45pm On Apr 03, 2017 |
The only thing one fears about this man is that he can start a nuclear war, and destroy the earth. He is that unhinged. His presence in the White House constitutes a great danger to the world. |
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