The Golden Couple (Ivanka and Jared)

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

Aren't you glad Dear Orange Leader is allowing "Merry Christmas" again?

Praise Dear Leader and his infinite wisdom!  

For years, we lived in fear that someone would break down our front door and seize our collection of Christmas movies and television specials. We flaunted the law by wishing other subversives a Merry Christmas, and boldly sent cards, letters, and packages through the mail that not only contained the forbidden words inside, but sometimes on the outside as well. It was our little way of saying, come at me, bro!

I heard that the Godless heathens cried bitter tears, because The Charlie Brown Christmas Special was once again allowed to be broadcast over our airwaves! My fellow patriots, we are winning! Hollyweird is sobbing uncontrollably into their organic wheat grass squeezins, because Dear Leader has taken his rightful place atop America's golden throne! 

I will joyfully praise Dear Leader for as long as there is breath in my non-elite, non-coastal dwelling body, for allowing me once again, to openly wish you all a very Merry "trigger the libs!" Christmas! 

[Audrey2]

@Cartmann99, Also remember that, before out Beloved Leader chased out those evil liberals, any idiot who went around with "Merry Christmas" on his lips was boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stick of Holly through his heart. (With apologies to Charles Dickens, paraphrased from A Christmas Carol.)

[AmazonGrace]

 

[fraurosena]

I say dog whistle.

Ivanka Trump’s holiday vacation photos include shot of a Confederate flag

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n Tuesday morning, the president’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump shared photos of her and Jared Kushner’s family fishing expedition — and in the background of the top right photo, a Confederate flag flew.

>tweet with photos<

As The Daily Dot noted, “the Confederate flag flying in the background of a family photo might not be the best optics” given President Donald Trump’s strange defense of the Confederacy and those who protested to “protect” their monuments.

As former Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub noted after the first daughter’s apparent flub, the photo was either a “dogwhistle” or a telling accident.

>Shaub's tweet<

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[GrumpyGran]

5 hours ago, fraurosena said:

I say dog whistle.

Ivanka Trump’s holiday vacation photos include shot of a Confederate flag

 

The tweet didn't show up in the text you posted. Is there a screen shot anywhere? Where the hell were they?

[fraurosena]

37 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

The tweet didn't show up in the text you posted. Is there a screen shot anywhere? Where the hell were they?

Here's Ivanka's tweet. It's the top right photo.

An enlargement wherein you can see the Confederate flag in all its glory is in the article itself.

Here's Shaub's tweet.

 

[fraurosena]

Are we surprised? Nope.

Ivanka Trump's Old Jewelry Business Is Now Caught Up in an Alleged Fraud Scheme

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Throw a dart at a map of the world and there’s a solid chance it will land near a spot where a Trump family business has allegedly gotten caught up in a money laundering scheme.

There’s Panama, where the Trump Ocean Club is said to have washed dirty cash for Russian gangsters and South American drug cartels. There’s Azerbaijan and the Trump Baku, where the money allegedly being laundered was said to belong to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. And of course, there’s the Trump Soho in Manhattan, a magnet for money from Kazakhstan and Russia, and a property that one former executive on the project now calls “a monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion."

In each of those cases, the Trump Organization has denied any wrongdoing and has sought to distance itself—and the Trump family—from the property, saying they merely licensed the Trump name. But as it turns out, it’s not just Trump-branded real estate developments that perhaps have attracted the wrong kinds of money.

Thanks to an overlooked filing made in federal court this past summer, we can now add a jewelry business to the list of Trump family enterprises that allegedly served as vehicles to fraudulently hide the assets of ultra-rich foreigners with checkered backgrounds. In late June, the Commercial Bank of Dubai sought—and later received—permission to subpoena Ivanka Trump’s now-defunct fine jewelry line, claiming its diamonds were used in a massive scheme to hide roughly $100 million that was owed to the bank, according to filings at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

High-end real estate is a common vehicle for money laundering, in part because, until recently, the industry was effectively exempt from many of the laws that prevent laundering through other types of assets, such as the “Know Your Customer” laws that apply to banking. But diamonds, too, hold an important place in the money launderer’s toolkit. Mountains of dirty money can be converted into tiny diamonds, which are easy to store or smuggle across national boundaries, and convert back into cash when the opportunity arises.

The Trumps are not the only Western business owners whose ventures have been tied to alleged money laundering and fraud schemes, but they are the only ones who are also in charge of American foreign policy, making the entanglements—and possible points of leverage—that arise from such ventures matters of national security.

Ivanka Trump launched Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry roughly a decade ago, partnering with a young real estate and diamond heir named Moshe Lax. It was her first independent business venture. She licensed her name for use by Madison Avenue Diamonds, which did business under Trump’s name in exchange for royalties. Trump also owned an equity stake in the business for an unspecified period. Around the time they were going into business together, Lax introduced Trump to Jared Kushner, the man who would become her husband, at a luncheon for real estate heirs he convened in Midtown Manhattan.

Trump and Lax set up a flagship boutique on Madison Avenue and publicly showered praise on each other, but the partnership eventually soured. Lax has been accused of all kinds of wrongdoing, from stiffing creditors to extortion, in numerous lawsuits, some of them related to Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry and some of them unrelated.

Trump terminated her relationship with Lax late last year, and according to the Trump Organization, Lax still owed her money as of August. Meanwhile, the defunct diamond line is getting dragged into court proceedings like this latest Dubai case, which alleges a plot by the family of prominent Emirati oil traders named the Al-Saris.

A decade ago, the high-flying Al-Saris controlled a multibillion-dollar oil-trading empire, but then hit a rough patch, reportedly becoming mired in legal battles over unpaid bills and sanctions imposed in 2012 on the family’s firm, FAL Oil, for selling oil to Iran.

Apparently strapped for cash, the Al-Saris are alleged to have borrowed over a $100 million from the Commercial Bank of Dubai. They defaulted on the debt and, according to court documents, proceeded to hide their assets in a network of shell companies, through which they bought diamonds and Las Vegas real estate. In addition, to Ivanka’s line, the bank—which filed a fraud suit in 2014—says the Al-Saris purchased diamonds from Jacob Arabo—better known as “Jacob the Jeweler”—for the same purpose. As “Jacob the Jeweler,” Arabo became famous as a diamond dealer to the stars (he was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2008 for lying to investigators about Detroit’s “Black Mafia Family” drug trafficking ring).

In this new case, the Commercial Bank of Dubai has not accused the jewelry line or Arabo of any wrongdoing. Arabo’s business did not respond to requests for comment, nor did FAL oil, the Al-Sari- owned enterprise at the center of the dispute. Lawyers for the Dubai bank, which is being represented in New York by Mayer Brown LLP, declined to comment.

Josh Raffel, a White House spokesman who fields Ivanka-related inquiries, did not respond to questions about the subpoena request, nor did Alan Garten, the general counsel of the Trump Organization.

The attempt to subpoena the jewelry business has so far escaped public notice, likely in part because court documents name only “Madison Avenue Diamonds”—the corporate entity that was registered to do business as “Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry”—and do not mention the Trump name. Though Trump has since cut all ties to Madison Avenue Diamonds, the timeline of the underlying case suggests any alleged transactions would have taken place when the company was still doing business as Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry.

As a practical matter, such a subpoena request—from the Commercial Bank of Dubai—now potentially injects the business dealings of the first family into a vicious legal fight between Arab world power players at a time when the Trumps are also using the power of the presidency to influence the region.

In recent months, Trump’s father, President Donald Trump, and her husband, fellow White House adviser Kushner, have waded aggressively into a civil war within the Arab world. In June, shortly after a trip to Saudi Arabia, Trump endorsed a move by the Saudis, the Emiratis, and others to blockade Qatar even as his own State and Defense departments struck a more conciliatory tone.

As it so happens, the Commercial Bank of Dubai—which was created by royal decree and remains partly owned by the Emirati government—made its subpoena request around the same time.

Then, in August, a judge granted the bank permission to issue a subpoena to the jewelry business. According to Lax, who along with his wife presides over Madison Avenue Diamonds, the bank hasn’t yet served one.

In an email, Ivanka Trump’s old business partner, Moshe Lax, cast any possible business relationship with the Al-Saris as limited to a single retail transaction. “They might have bought a piece of fashion jewelry at our former boutique,” he wrote. “We will fully comply in verifying and providing info the court might ask from us.”

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[JMarie]

On 12/21/2017 at 6:21 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

We’re speaking of Ivanka Trump, as you might have divined. She was out talking nonsense again on Thursday: “I’m really looking forward to doing a lot of traveling in April when people realize the effect that this has … The vast majority will be [doing their taxes] on a single postcard.” Thunk. There’s no postcard. That was a prop. And the filing for the first year under the new tax code will be in 2019.

Doesn't she do a lot of traveling every month?  At taxpayers' expense?  So she's going to squeeze in some self-paid travel in April?

[fraurosena]

Meanwhile, he still has a security clearance and is quietly wreaking diplomatic havoc with his inexperienced, arrogant blathering. A country cannot be run like a business, you incompetent twat-waddle!

Jared Kushner willing to blow up US alliances: ‘I’m a businessman, I don’t care about the past’

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Jared Kushner — the president’s son-in-law, senior White House adviser and “de facto second Secretary of State” — reportedly can’t be bothered to learn about international alliances. According to a new Politico Magazine report, Kushner showed little interest in maintaining long-standing U.S. alliances, especially in Western Europe.

“He told me, ‘I’m a businessman, and I don’t care about the past. Old allies can be enemies, or enemies can be friends,’ so the past doesn’t count,” one official told the magazine. “I was taken aback. It was frightening.”

Kushner has taken an unusually active diplomatic role, and was reportedly the driving factor behind the controversial White House effort to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Longtime State Department officials have complained for nearly a year about the inexperienced Kushner’s role, which they see as a direct threat to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Kushner reportedly worried Tillerson by engaging in secret talks with the Saudi crown prince, which the Secretary of State fears could “tip the region into chaos.”

“This administration is unconventional in so many ways,” said one top official from the Middle East.

 

 

[allthegoodnamesrgone]

I was just going to say that I'm stunned that the GOP has let it go this far, but then I realize the GOP does think of the country as a corporation, and they are its shareholders demanding profits for their "hard work".

[GreyhoundFan]

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are house hunting in Washington"

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It seems Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are looking to put down roots in Washington — the couple has recently been touring homes for sale, people familiar with the search say.

Javanka, both White House advisers in addition to being the son-in-law and daughter of the president, respectively, rent a six-bedroom home in the swanky Kalorama neighborhood — a spot they settled into last year after leaving Manhattan for Washington following President Trump’s election. The location has its upside: loads of charm, plus it’s close to their synagogue, TheShul of the Nation’s Capital, meaning the couple and their three children have a short walk on Sabbath days, when the observant family eschews transportation.

Downsides? The house is very close to two streets, making it highly visible. Even though Secret Service has cut off access to sidewalks bordering the property, paparazzi have frequently snapped comings and goings of the family and guests to their parties. The exposed locale also has attracted protesters, including one group that threw a “queer dance party for climate justice” on their street in April.

“They are looking for something more private,” said one person familiar with the couple’s house hunt. We’re told they’ve visited at least one property in the Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood, another ritzy area a little north of their current nabe. Many homes there are more secluded (some even have proper driveways!), making it a more desirable spot for folks who don’t want their every move public.

If they do decamp, some Kalorama residents won’t be too sad to see moving trucks pull up — the power couple’s security detail hasn’t exactly been a popular addition. The Secret Service curtailed parking in an already tough-to-find-a-spot neighborhood. Some neighbors complained about the ruckus agents made. Even portable toilets temporarily installed outside the house rankled nearby residents.

Much has been made about how their rental made Javanka the neighbors of former president Barack Obama and his family, who occupy a home a few blocks away. But if the couple does wind up in Massachusetts Avenue Heights, they’ll be within sugar-borrowing distance of another of Ivanka’s father’s sworn enemies: Former presidential rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, own a home there.

I thought the rumor was that they were looking to move back to NYC. I'd love to see them leave DC.

[fraurosena]

15 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are house hunting in Washington"

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It seems Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are looking to put down roots in Washington — the couple has recently been touring homes for sale, people familiar with the search say.

Javanka, both White House advisers in addition to being the son-in-law and daughter of the president, respectively, rent a six-bedroom home in the swanky Kalorama neighborhood — a spot they settled into last year after leaving Manhattan for Washington following President Trump’s election. The location has its upside: loads of charm, plus it’s close to their synagogue, TheShul of the Nation’s Capital, meaning the couple and their three children have a short walk on Sabbath days, when the observant family eschews transportation.

Downsides? The house is very close to two streets, making it highly visible. Even though Secret Service has cut off access to sidewalks bordering the property, paparazzi have frequently snapped comings and goings of the family and guests to their parties. The exposed locale also has attracted protesters, including one group that threw a “queer dance party for climate justice” on their street in April.

“They are looking for something more private,” said one person familiar with the couple’s house hunt. We’re told they’ve visited at least one property in the Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood, another ritzy area a little north of their current nabe. Many homes there are more secluded (some even have proper driveways!), making it a more desirable spot for folks who don’t want their every move public.

If they do decamp, some Kalorama residents won’t be too sad to see moving trucks pull up — the power couple’s security detail hasn’t exactly been a popular addition. The Secret Service curtailed parking in an already tough-to-find-a-spot neighborhood. Some neighbors complained about the ruckus agents made. Even portable toilets temporarily installed outside the house rankled nearby residents.

Much has been made about how their rental made Javanka the neighbors of former president Barack Obama and his family, who occupy a home a few blocks away. But if the couple does wind up in Massachusetts Avenue Heights, they’ll be within sugar-borrowing distance of another of Ivanka’s father’s sworn enemies: Former presidential rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, own a home there.

I thought the rumor was that they were looking to move back to NYC. I'd love to see them leave DC.

I’d love to see them move to prison. 

[onekidanddone]

19 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are house hunting in Washington"

  Reveal hidden contents

It seems Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are looking to put down roots in Washington — the couple has recently been touring homes for sale, people familiar with the search say.

Javanka, both White House advisers in addition to being the son-in-law and daughter of the president, respectively, rent a six-bedroom home in the swanky Kalorama neighborhood — a spot they settled into last year after leaving Manhattan for Washington following President Trump’s election. The location has its upside: loads of charm, plus it’s close to their synagogue, TheShul of the Nation’s Capital, meaning the couple and their three children have a short walk on Sabbath days, when the observant family eschews transportation.

Downsides? The house is very close to two streets, making it highly visible. Even though Secret Service has cut off access to sidewalks bordering the property, paparazzi have frequently snapped comings and goings of the family and guests to their parties. The exposed locale also has attracted protesters, including one group that threw a “queer dance party for climate justice” on their street in April.

“They are looking for something more private,” said one person familiar with the couple’s house hunt. We’re told they’ve visited at least one property in the Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood, another ritzy area a little north of their current nabe. Many homes there are more secluded (some even have proper driveways!), making it a more desirable spot for folks who don’t want their every move public.

If they do decamp, some Kalorama residents won’t be too sad to see moving trucks pull up — the power couple’s security detail hasn’t exactly been a popular addition. The Secret Service curtailed parking in an already tough-to-find-a-spot neighborhood. Some neighbors complained about the ruckus agents made. Even portable toilets temporarily installed outside the house rankled nearby residents.

Much has been made about how their rental made Javanka the neighbors of former president Barack Obama and his family, who occupy a home a few blocks away. But if the couple does wind up in Massachusetts Avenue Heights, they’ll be within sugar-borrowing distance of another of Ivanka’s father’s sworn enemies: Former presidential rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, own a home there.

I thought the rumor was that they were looking to move back to NYC. I'd love to see them leave DC.

Well crap, this is a sign they plan to stay.

[GrumpyGran]

56 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

“They are looking for something more private,” said one person familiar with the couple’s house hunt.

Isn't that prison where Martha Stewart spent time pretty isolated?

So are they running from the flies who continue to multiply at a frightening rate in their current digs?

[GreyhoundFan]

3 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

Isn't that prison where Martha Stewart spent time pretty isolated?

Yes, she was housed in Alderson, WV, which is in the middle of nowhere. But, you know, it would be an appropriate place for Ivanka, since her daddy just LOVES West Virginia. It's a women-only correctional center, so Jared would have to be sent elsewhere. My suggestion would be Red Onion, which is also in the middle of nowhere, but in Virginia. Unfortunately, Red Onion is a state prison, not federal, and it's maximum security, so Jared wouldn't be sent there.

[JMarie]

Oh, that Ivanka!  Spilling her father's hairdo secrets!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-reveals-the-truth-about-trumps-hairand-mocks-it-too

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Betrayed by his own daughter.

Forget North Korea. Forget talk of treason and alleged collusion with the Russians. Forget the size of his fingers and the size of his nuclear button.

If President Donald Trump is sensitive about one thing, it is the strange mass of matter—human or otherwise—that adorns the top of his head.

Is this hair real? A comb-over? How much of it is there? Where does it begin? Where does it end? What is its true color? Is it really a domesticated pet? Does it bite?

The mystery of Donald Trump’s hair (“style” would be an over-reach), so long contested, may have finally been solved by his daughter Ivanka Trump—at the same as she reportedly mocks her father’s hair affair to friends.

As reported by Michael Wolff in his new book about President Trump’s first year in office, Fire and Fury: Inside Trump’s White House, we learn that it is Trump’s beloved daughter that leads the chorus of those who mock the Trump “do” (or “don’t’).

“She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others,” Wolff writes, as extracted in New York magazine. “She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate—a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery—surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.”

So, Trump has had surgery on his head because he thought it was too big, and yet his fingers remain so frustratingly small? The hair would not be bidden or calmed. It stayed like determined Triffids, then surrounded the pate and laid it to siege. Be warned, Rocket Man: Trump fought back.

If only Trump could unite the country with the same, determined focus as he diligently gathers those disparate clumps and strands of hair together every day.

From every corner of his allegedly surgically altered scalp he carefully marshals them, and then in one dramatic move he sweeps as much as he can back and fixes it in place.

Every morning, Trump is his own ’60s housewife, wrestling his bouffant to prettified submission.

The only method of control for these wanton tendrils: spray, and more spray.

Ivanka Sassoon wasn’t done.

“The color, she would point out to comical effect,” Woolf continues, “was from a product called Just for Men—the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color.”

This would explain why Trump’s hair flows like the world’s maddest orange river, north, south, east, and west; the reason for its many tones of white, blonde, and orange.

It also explains why Trump’s hair goes left, right, front, and back: a rollercoaster ride that even the greatest brains at Six Flags could not construct.

This also explains Trump’s hair’s only minimal capitulation to natural forces. Wind is its declared enemy: it will not move for wind. When the wind comes, the Trump hair hunkers down. On the rare occasion the wind has not been briefed about his presence beforehand and comes at him too strong, Trump’s hair explodes in all directions: He could be Tippi Hedren’s stunt double in the most intense scenes of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.

 

[GrumpyGran]

15 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

so Jared would have to be sent elsewhere.

Butner. Then he could have a pity party with Madoff. Except Madoff may be in the medical facility there, not sure.

[fraurosena]

Tee-hee...

The SEC is investigating the Kushner family’s company over its use of a controversial visa program

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into Kushner Companies, the New York real-estate firm owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

The investigation reportedly focuses on the company’s use of the EB-5 visa program, which allows 10,000 immigrant visas each year in an effort to promote investment from foreign countries into less-developed regions or create jobs in the US.

Foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in US businesses and plan “to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs” in the US are eligible to apply for the program, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

A lawyer representing Kushner Companies told The Journal that the business “utilized the program, fully complied with its rules and regulations, and did nothing improper.”

In May, The Associated Press found that Chinese investors had spent at least $7.7 billion – and received more than 40,000 US visas in return – thanks to the EB-5 program in the last decade.

That same month, the Kushners’ company held an event at a ritzy hotel in Beijing to encourage Chinese investments for a development project in New Jersey.

“Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States,” read a brochure at the event, The Washington Post reported.

At the time, critics pointed out the potential for a conflict of interest considering Kushner’s relationship with Trump. Although Kushner resigned from his company upon taking the job at the White House, he still owns a minority stake in the business.

“It’s incredibly stupid and highly inappropriate,” Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer in the Bush administration, told the Post. “They clearly imply that the Kushners are going to make sure you get your visa … They’re [Chinese applicants] not going to take a chance. Of course they’re going to want to invest.”

A spokesperson for Kushner Companies later apologized for the poor optics, but just two months later, CNN reported that the business was again invoking Kushner’s status as a senior White House aide to attract investors.

The SEC probe isn’t the first time Kushner Companies has fallen under scrutiny. Last year, federal prosecutors subpoenaed the business for more information about its development projects. In November, prosecutors also sought to obtain the company’s records from Deutsche Bank, which has lent hundreds of millions over the years to the Kushner family, as well as to Trump.

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The net is slowly but inexorably closing around them. 

[AmazonGrace]

White House: Ivanka, Kushner 'sacrificing' for the nation

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367985-white-house-jared-ivanka-sacrificing-for-the-nation?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
 

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The White House on Monday remained firm in its rejection of Stephen Bannon's apology for attacking President Trump's children in a new book, saying that first daughter Ivanka Trump her husband Jared Kushner are "sacrificing" to serve the American people.

"When you go after somebody's family, in the manner in which he did — two of the president's children who are serving this nation, sacrificing in their service — it is repugnant, it is grotesque," Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard Air Force One. 

"They both gave up personal and private lives to come work at the White House and work for the American people. They do that every day. And it's ridiculous for anyone to try and attack what they do for this nation," he added.

Gidley's remarks come after Bannon is quoted in Michael Wolff's new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” in which the former White House chief strategist says Ivanka Trump is "as dumb as a brick" and suggests Kushner conducted some "greasy" business with Deutsche Bank.

Neither Kushner nor Ivanka Trump takes a salary for their work as White House advisers.

Bannon also went after Donald Trump Jr. for his controversial June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, calling him “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” — an attack he later walked back.

Bannon's shots at the president's family ignited the fury of Trump, who not sought to distance himself from the former White House aide, but also painted him as a deranged and bitter former staffer.

Trump took to Twitter to slam the book while calling Bannon "Sloppy Steve."

Days after the Breitbart News chief executive faced a heavy fallout from allies and donors alike for his comments, Bannon came forward with a statement of "regret."

"Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around," Bannon said in a statement to Axios, emphasizing that he meant the comments to be about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

"I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency," he added, without walking back his remarks about Ivanka and Jared. 

Gidley suggested Bannon crossed a red-line going after the president's family.

"I challenge anybody to go and talk about someone else's family and see if that person doesn't come back and come back hard," Gidley added.

 

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"I challenge anybody to go and talk about someone else's family and see if that person doesn't come back and come back hard," Gidley added.

Who could forget all those times that Obama called Axelrod Dowdy David for talking smack about Sasha and Malia.

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

And it's ridiculous for anyone to try and attack what they do for this nation," he added.

Which is exactly what? Please tell me what Ivanka has done for this nation. Re-decorate the office she occupies in the White House? Make clothing in sweat shops in China? Sell her crap for ten times what it's worth? Go to conferences and make speeches about empowering women while she does the exact opposite? Swan about at expensive social gatherings? Make videos of herself acknowledging her children and enjoying expensive vacations with them and her husband? How is any of this a sacrifice? How is it helping me?

[AmazonGrace]

Ivanka pretends she cares about the things Oprah spoke about

[fraurosena]

3 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Ivanka pretends she cares about the things Oprah spoke about

All the while ignoring the fact that her very own father is a self-confessed abuser. What a tone-deaf twit.

[KnittingOwl]

5 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Ivanka pretends she cares about the things Oprah spoke about

Maybe she should start closest to home. She is so incredibly tone deaf!

[GreyhoundFan]

4 hours ago, fraurosena said:

All the while ignoring the fact that her very own father is a self-confessed abuser. What a tone-deaf twit.

It's like her stepmother's cyber-bullying cause. Talk about clueless.

[GreyhoundFan]

The HuffPo published a bunch of reactions to Ivanka's tone-deaf tweet:

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