The Golden Couple (Ivanka and Jared)

[GreyhoundFan]

Good grief -- an investigation into more shady practices by Jared: "How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas"

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JERSEY CITY — Jared Kushner and his real estate partners wanted to take advantage of a federal program in 2015 that would save them millions of dollars as they built an opulent, 50-story residential tower in this city’s booming waterfront district, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan.

There was just one problem: The program was designed to benefit projects in poor, job-starved areas.

So the project’s consultants got creative, records show.

They worked with state officials in New Jersey to come up with a map that defined the area around 65 Bay Street as a swath of land that stretched nearly four miles and included some of the city’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods. At the same time, they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away.

The tactic — critics liken it to the gerrymandering of legislative districts — made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program.

The move was legal, and other developers have used similar strategies in recent years, often aided by state officials who welcome the infusion of cash. But it illustrates how Kushner, who ran his family’s real estate company before he became a senior adviser to President Trump, and his partners exploited a loophole in a federal program that prominent members of both parties say has been plagued by fraud and abuse.

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On the south side of Jersey City, which has some of the most entrenched poverty in the New York City region, many people interviewed one day last week were surprised that their neighborhood’s troubles were part of the reason that 65 Bay Street got cheap financing.

“That’s very sad,” said Pastor Shyrone Richardson of the World Outreach Christian Church in the struggling Bergen-Lafayette section of Jersey City. “Unfortunately, the people who are benefiting from this are not the people in this area.”

Richardson’s church is in a five-block area where nearly 1 in 5 were jobless and three fatal shootings occurred in 2015, according to an analysis of crime and census data.

His neighborhood seems a world away from the gleaming office towers and trendy cafes that surround 65 Bay Street. The Jersey City waterfront saw a building boom after 9/11 that transformed the area into one of the hottest real estate markets in the New York metro region, drawing residents from Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Apartments in the Bay Street building, marketed as Trump Bay Street, rent for up to $4,700 a month and offer sweeping views of Lower Manhattan. A nearby commuter train shuttles passengers to the World Trade Center within minutes. The area within a roughly three-block radius around the building had an unemployment rate of just 2.6 percent in 2015, according to census data.

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Under the EB-5 program, a wealthy foreigner can get a fast-track residence visa by investing at least $500,000 in a project in a “targeted employment area.” To qualify, the area must have an unemployment rate 1.5 times the national average. For developers, the terms of the investment are more favorable than a bank loan.

The Trump administration is considering whether to adopt changes that would prevent EB-5 gerrymandering. Kushner has said he will recuse himself from any discussions on the program.

Kushner Companies, meanwhile, is rushing to raise $150 million in low-cost financing through EB-5 for a separate project in Jersey City: a pair of luxury towers in an area called Journal Square. Kushner’s sister caused a stir this month when she mentioned her brother in a pitch for the project to investors in China.

For that project, too, the company is linking the development to blighted neighborhoods miles to the south while excluding adjoining neighborhoods that have lower unemployment rates, records show.

An executive at U.S. Immigration Fund-NJ, a firm helping Kushner Companies to raise EB-5 money for both projects, defended the practice. Mark Giresi, chief operating officer, called it a “common sense” approach that reflects the broader economic reality of each project’s surroundings. He also said jobs created by the project could be filled by workers from the depressed areas only miles away.

“In large urban markets like Jersey City these types of real estate development projects create much-needed jobs, particularly in the construction industry across areas of the city that cover multiple census tracts,” Giresi said in a statement. Census tracts are government-defined neighborhoods, sometimes as small as a few blocks in area.

Giresi said the Bay Street project created more than 1,280 construction and other jobs and that 1 Journal Square is projected to create 6,600. Under the EB-5 program, each $500,000 investment must create at least 10 jobs.

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The program’s critics say that cobbling together multiple census tracts to push up the average unemployment rate too often benefits developers and areas that do not need the government help. They point to EB-5 projects in prosperous areas of Manhattan, downtown Washington and in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The government caps the number of EB-5 visas it issues each year, and most of the resulting investment goes to high-profile projects in prosperous areas.

“Many of these affluent-area projects would have been built and jobs created without the infusion of EB-5 capital,” said Gary Friedland, a scholar in residence at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “Consequently, deserving projects can’t be built and the resulting jobs are lost because the projects are deprived of the essential capital to proceed.”

A spokeswoman for Kushner Companies declined to comment, as did Jared Kushner’s spokesman.

Jared Kushner has sold his interest in 1 Journal Square but maintains an ownership stake in 65 Bay Street. The KABR Group, a partner in the luxury tower on Bay Street, also declined to comment.

Kushner’s prominence is drawing renewed attention to the use of the EB-5 process to raise financing, which has been the subject of years of debate in Congress and furious lobbying by the real estate industry. A writer for the policy magazine City and State, which published the maps for both projects last week, wrote in a commentary that the projects made “a mockery” of EB-5’s intent.

In interviews along Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City last week, there was a common reaction. “It’s like we’re being used,” said Helen Gathers, a registered nurse who has lived in Jersey City for 38 years.

Down the block, Laville Penn, a 54-year-old who was released from prison in early 2016 after a drug-possession conviction, was looking for employment. He had been searching for steady work in construction for more than six months, he said, but had found only temporary day jobs.

Now, hoping to pick up some hours, he stopped by a lot where a friend was doing contract demolition work. Penn said the high-rises built in Jersey City are typically union jobs. “It’s difficult to get into the union if you don’t have certification or experience,” he said.

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The EB-5 program was initiated in 1990 to help attract foreign investment to rural and poor urban areas that have trouble drawing conventional financing or investment.

But developers are free to string together an endless number of contiguous census tracts until they reach the unemployment threshold. In the years since the Great Recession, this has often meant finding the nearest poor area and drawing a line to it.

Documents obtained from New Jersey through a public records request show just how easy that was for Kushner Companies and KABR Group as they sought to build the Bay Street tower.

On May 6, 2015, Michael K. Evans, a consultant working on behalf of the project, sent an email to an official in the New Jersey Department of Labor asking that the Bay Street vicinity be deemed an area with high unemployment. Individual states are responsible for reviewing unemployment data and issuing letters certifying that projects qualify for the federal program.

Evans wrote that such an area could be created by combining 26 census tracts in Jersey City that stretch more than two miles to the northwest and three miles to the southwest.

“The client as always is in a great hurry so if you can e-mail me the letter as soon as it is finished it would be appreciated,” Evans wrote. Evans did not respond to a request for comment.

There was a problem, though. Probably because the developers were using outdated census data, the tracts were not contiguous — and didn’t include the project itself.

Three weeks later, the state wrote back that the project qualified under a different but similarly attenuated configuration that achieved the same goal. New Jersey’s state website says it will help developers “perform a special tabulation for the area” of their project using census data.

The state-approved map strung together 16 census tracts that went nearly four miles to the southwest, crossing the New Jersey Turnpike and heading south to the Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville areas. Together, those neighborhoods had an average unemployment rate that edged just higher than 9.3 percent, the qualifying rate at the time.

That likely saved Kushner and his partners millions of dollars.

Developers typically pay only 4 to 8 percent interest annually on money raised through EB-5, experts said. Conventional financing can carry interest rates of between 12 and 18 percent. On the $50 million for Bay Street, the difference in interest charges amounts to millions of dollars annually over the life of the loan.

On Jan. 5, a little over two weeks before Trump was to take office, another consultant working on behalf of Kushner Companies got in touch with New Jersey state officials again. This time, it was about 1 Journal Square. The census tract where it is located had an unemployment rate of 2.9 percent in 2015, but the consultant suggested adding five neighborhoods to triple that unemployment rate.

The approval came four days later, records show. Kushner’s sister went to China in May seeking the $150 million in EB-5 financing.

The Trump administration will decide in the coming months whether to enact rules, proposed by the Obama administration, limiting the census tracts that can be considered for EB-5 eligibility to only those directly adjacent to the tract containing the development.

The proposal is being considered by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. Under the proposed rules, neither the 65 Bay Street tower nor the proposed 1 Journal Square project would be in a “targeted employment area.”

Shady, shady, shady.

[GreyhoundFan]

Wow: "Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing"

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SHANGHAI — A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man’s wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday.

Hua Haifeng was accused of illegal surveillance, according to his wife, Deng Guilian, who said the police called her Tuesday afternoon. Deng said the caller told her she didn’t need to know the details, only that she would not be able to see, speak with or receive money from her husband, the family’s breadwinner.

China Labor Watch Executive Director Li Qiang said he lost contact with Hua Haifeng and the other two men, Li Zhao and Su Heng, over the weekend. By Tuesday, after dozens of unanswered calls, he had concluded: “They must be held either by the factory or the police to be unreachable.”

China Labor Watch, a New York-based nonprofit, was planning to publish a report next month alleging low pay, excessive overtime and the possible misuse of student interns. It is unclear whether the undercover investigative methods used by the advocacy group are legal in China.

For 17 years, China Labor Watch has investigated working conditions at suppliers to some of the world’s best-known companies, but Li said his work has never before attracted this level of scrutiny from China’s state security apparatus.

“Our plan was to investigate the factory to improve the labor situation,” Li said. “But now it has become more political.”

Walt Disney Co. stopped working with a toy maker in Shenzhen last year after the group exposed labor violations. China Labor Watch has also published reports on child labor at Samsung suppliers and spent years investigating Apple Inc.’s China factories. In the past, the worst thing Li feared was having investigators kicked out of a factory or face a short police detention.

That has changed.

The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China’s ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labor Watch. Faced with rising labor unrest and a slowing economy, Beijing has also taken a stern approach to activism in southern China’s manufacturing belt and to human rights advocates generally, sparking a wave of critical reports about disappearances, public confessions, forced repatriation and torture in custody.

Another difference is the target of China Labor Watch’s investigation: a brand owned by the daughter of the president of the United States.

White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks referred questions to Ivanka Trump’s brand. The Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment for this story.

Abigail Klem, who took over day-to-day management when the first daughter took on a White House role as presidential adviser, has said that the brand requires licensees and their manufacturers to “comply with all applicable laws and to maintain acceptable working conditions.”

Li said China Labor Watch asked police about the three missing investigators on Monday but received no reply. Li added that a friend had tried to file a missing person report on Li Zhao in Jiangxi, where the factory is located, but was told he had to do so in the man’s hometown.

AP was unable to reach the other investigators’ families. China’s Ministry of Public Security and police in Ganzhou city and Jiangxi province could not be reached for comment Tuesday, which was a national holiday in China.

All three men were investigating Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co.’s factory in Jiangxi province, just north of Guangdong province. Su Heng had been working undercover at the factory since April, Li said. The parent company is known as Huajian Group.

In January, Liu Shiyuan, then spokesman for the Huajian Group, told AP the company makes 10,000 to 20,000 pairs of shoes a year for Ivanka Trump’s brand — a fraction of the 20 million pairs the company produces a year. A current spokeswoman for the company, Long Shan, did not reply to questions Tuesday. “I told you I could not check until tomorrow,” she said. “If your official letter contains a stamp and signature, we can confirm whether the media is real or not.”

Li said investigators had seen Ivanka Trump-brand shoes in the factory, as well as production orders for Ivanka Trump, Marc Fisher, Nine West and Easy Spirit merchandise.

“We were unaware of the allegations and will look into them immediately,” a spokeswoman for Marc Fisher, which manufactures Ivanka Trump, Easy Spirit and its own branded shoes, said in an email. Nine West did not respond to requests for comment.

Li Zhao and Hua Haifeng were blocked from leaving mainland China for Hong Kong in April and May — something that had never happened to his colleagues before, Li said. Hua Haifeng was stopped at the border May 25 and later questioned by police, Li said. During their final phone conversation on Saturday, Hua told Li that police had asked him to stop investigating the Huajian factory — another turn of events that Li said was unprecedented.

Li said the men had documented excessive overtime, with working days sometimes stretching longer than 18 hours, and a base salary below minimum wage. They were working to confirm evidence suggesting that student interns — some of whom allegedly quit in protest — were putting in excessive hours on work unrelated to their field of study, in violation of Chinese law, Li said. The use of student workers in China is legal, but meant to be strictly regulated. Rights groups and journalists have documented widespread abuse of the system over the years.

“It is the role of the police to prevent that kind of independent investigation,” said Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia director for Amnesty International. “The threshold is much lower today than it was one year ago, two years ago, and if this is something that has a foreign diplomacy dimension, that would make national security personnel even more willing to stop it.”

Hua’s wife, Deng, meanwhile, has yet to tell the couple’s children, ages 3 and 7, about their father’s plight. But they seem to know anyway, she said.

“My son suddenly burst into tears. He said he missed Papa,” Deng said by phone from her home in central China’s Hubei province. “I said Papa would come home soon and buy you toys.”

She said the child looked at her and answered: “Papa was taken away by a monster.”

Another reason to not purchase Ivanka's crap.

[fraurosena]

 

I am apalled.

Then again, in the role she has in the WH (deserved or not) she could very well be the most 'powerful' at the moment.

Powerful ≠ Respect and I am thankful for that in this case.

[candygirl200413]

CNN has been incredibly horrible as a news station during thee past few years, but I was so pissed with that tweet of Ivanka. She legit just sits there and looks pretty. How is that okay to say she is amazing?!

[AmazonGrace]

I don't know, if she is there in the White House to persuade Trump to stay in Paris and help women's rights and that sort of thing, she seems pretty powerless. 

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

I don't know, if she is there in the White House to persuade Trump to stay in Paris and help women's rights and that sort of thing, she seems pretty powerless. 

Now, now, @AmazonGrace. You know that's just wishful thinking... 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The only woman whose rights Agent Orange MAY care about is Ivanka. The rest of us, well, out of luck in his world.

[Childless]

On 6/3/2017 at 3:06 PM, AmazonGrace said:

I don't know, if she is there in the White House to persuade Trump to stay in Paris and help women's rights and that sort of thing, she seems pretty powerless. 

Ha!  She was never there to stump for women's rights.  Just look at that pathetic rich person tax break she tried to peddle as a daycare affordability bill.  She's there to line her own pockets and make sure her unstable daddy doesn't do anything to ruin it.

[GrumpyGran]

So what's the 411 on the golden couple this weekend? Was it dinner with daddy as usual last night?

I suspect that a part of the reason behind the timing on the Paris Accord pullout was a bit of punishment directed at Ivanka because of Jared. They may be on the outside right now so a "vacation" for them may be on the near horizon.

[ShepherdontheRock]

CNN and the rest of the media need to fucking stop sucking up to Ivanka. I'm fucking serious. I don't give a fuck that she's pretty and blonde and "nice" on the outside. 

Also how can she be the "most powerful Jewish woman" when she ain't even a Jew. Or powerful in any real capacity. 

She's an insult to any woman who's legitimately had to work for anything. 

[fraurosena]

Well now. I wonder what spin he's going to try to put on this then. If he is ever asked to testify, that is...

Was Kushner Seeking a Russian Bailout for Manhattan Building? Congress Will Ask

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A very expensive piece of New York City real estate with an ominous address could be Exhibit A when and if President Donald Trump's son-in-law and trusted adviser, Jared Kushner, appears before the Congressional committees probing Russian meddling in the presidential election.

One of the questions Kushner is expected to be asked is whether he tried to set up a secret back channel way of communicating with the Russians so he could find somebody in Moscow to take the 41-story tower at 666 Fifth Ave. off his family's hands, two Congressional sources with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to NBC News.

Trump has repeatedly touted Kushner, who volunteered to testify before Congress, as a "very successful real estate person."

But Kushner and his family real estate firm took a bath when they bought the building back in January 2007 for what was then a record price for a Manhattan building — $1.8 billion.

Kushner Companies has been bleeding money ever since, according to numerous published reports.

So far no date has been set for Kushner to appear before the Senate and House Intelligence committees. Part of the questioning will likely be about a bombshell May 26 report in the Washington Post that Kushner in December allegedly proposed to the Russians setting up a secret communications channel using secure diplomatic facilities.

The White House has not explained why Kushner met in December with Sergey Gorkov — a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Vnesheconombank, a bank that was hit with U.S. sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea.

But Kushner's contacts with the Russians came as his family's real estate firm was already in talks with Anbang Insurance Group, a Chinese firm with murky ties to the country's government, to invest $4 billion into 666 Fifth Ave.

When Bloomberg News reported that a possible deal between Kushner and Anbang was in the works, the Chinese firm quickly put the kibosh on the story.

"The information about Anbang investment in 666 Fifth Avenue is not correct, there is no investment from Anbang for this deal," the company said in a statement.

NBC News reached out to a Kushner Companies spokesperson and asked point blank whether the purpose of the alleged back channel to Moscow was to find investors for 666 Fifth Ave. A spokesman there declined to comment.

The same question was posed twice to Kushner's White House spokesman Joshua Raffel, a well-regarded former Hollywood publicist. He forwarded an earlier response from another White House flack, Hope Hicks, who said Kushner "was acting in his capacity as a transition official and had many similar discussions with foreign representatives after the election."

"For example, he also started conversations with leaders from Saudi Arabia that led to the President's recent successful international trip," Hicks's statement read.

Earlier, when it was first revealed that Kushner had been in contact with the Russians, Trump said he had "total confidence" in him and defended his son-in-law as a "very good person."

National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster has told reporters he's "not concerned" about reports Kushner was in contact with the Russians. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly echoed that during an appearance on Meet the Press.

"Just because you have a back channel, if indeed that's what Jared was after, doesn't mean that he then keeps everything secret," he said.

Kushner is married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka. He is also the son of New Jersey-based real estate tycoon Charles Kushner, who served 14 months in a federal prison camp for making illegal campaign contributions — and for retaliating against his brother-in-law by hiring a prostitute to seduce him.

When Charles Kushner was released, the family set its sights on Manhattan. Their first attempt at buying a marquee building at 1211 Sixth Avenue ended in failure. So in October 2006, they went after 666 Fifth Ave., which was owned at the time by the Tishman Speyer Properties.

In the Book of Revelations and in popular culture, 666 is the "number of the beast."

It was young Kushner himself who placed the call to Rob Speyer, the son of Tishman Speyer co-founder Jerry Speyer, according to New York Magazine.

"This isn't the way we do deals in New York," an angry Scott Latham, the broker representing Tishman Speyer, reportedly said.

The deal was saved, according to the magazine, when Kushner and Speyer had a quiet word in the hallway.

Asked by email about the New York Magazine account, Latham wrote back, "There are multiple points in the story that are not true." He did not respond to a call and second email from NBC News asking for specifics.

Kushner, however, was clearly delighted by his purchase.

"In this particular transaction, we bought really the center of the world," Kushner told The Real Deal in October 2007. "It doesn't get any better than that."

Kushner Companies put $500 million of its own money into the purchase and took out a $1.2 billion mortgage and additional loans to cover the rest of the purchase. The company then moved its offices from Florham Park, New Jersey to the 15th floor of what was supposed to be their flagship building.

The timing could not have been worse.

In 2008, the markets melted down. With the recession dragging rents down, the Kushners were forced to sell off parts of the building to cover their debt and then renegotiate the deal to avoid foreclosure.

Then in 2011, the Vornado real estate company bought 49.5 percent of the building's office space for $80 million. But the building still wasn't covering its operating costs.

Meanwhile, the Kushners commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to design a new 1,400-foot tower to replace the building on the site. Then they began looking for investors to kick in $3.3 billion of the projected $7.5 billion it will cost to demolish the old building and replace it with a new building, the New York Times reported.

Then in March, Bloomberg News reported Anbang was considering investing $4 billion in the tower — an apparent sweetheart deal that would have reduced the Kushners' mortgage "to about a fifth of its current amount" and give them a $400 million payout.

A company spokesman told Bloomberg that Kushner had sold his ownership stake in 666 Fifth Avenue to family members so the deal would pose no conflict of interest with his role as White House adviser.

But Anbang is believed to be so intertwined with the Chinese government that former President Barack Obama declined to stay at the Waldorf Astoria New York, which Anbang owns, for fear of being bugged.

 

[GrumpyGran]

Seriously, the address of this building is 666 5th Ave.? You can't make this shit up! Who even builds a building with that address?

[Flossie]

On 6/5/2017 at 2:43 PM, GrumpyGran said:

Seriously, the address of this building is 666 5th Ave.? ... Who even builds a building with that address?

Truly.  85% of buildings in the US that have 13 or more floors either skip the 13th floor (going from 12 to 14) or give that floor a different name.

In real estate, a physical address of 666 does occur, but not as often as you'd think.  Either developers manage to avoid the number when building, or a later owner applies to have it changed.  When former president Ronald Reagan bought a house in Bel Air, CA as a retirement home, it's address was 666 St. Cloud Road.  He had it changed to 668.  There are plenty of examples on the internet of owners doing the same thing.

While some people don't care about perceived bad luck associated with certain numbers, there are still plenty of people who find themselves nervous about "unlucky numbers" or dates, like "Friday the 13th".  There may not be proven, unbiased, stastical analysis to prove evil or bad luck is attached to such things, but ingrained suspicion will often blame every stubbed toe, overcooked casserole, car accident or crime on the dastardly numbers 13 or 666.

[AnywhereButHere]

9 hours ago, Flossie said:

Truly.  85% of buildings in the US that have 13 or more floors either skip the 13th floor (going from 12 to 14) or give that floor a different name...

Every time I see this, I just want to shout "You're still on the 13th floor, you idiot! Call it 14 all you want, it's still 13! You're still cursed - you're just playing ostrich about it."  I don't know who I'd shout it to, but the impulse is there.

[JMarie]

On ‎6‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 1:34 PM, fraurosena said:

 

I am apalled.

Then again, in the role she has in the WH (deserved or not) she could very well be the most 'powerful' at the moment.

Powerful ≠ Respect and I am thankful for that in this case.

The comments on this tweet are AWESOME!

[catlady]

1 hour ago, AnywhereButHere said:

Every time I see this, I just want to shout "You're still on the 13th floor, you idiot! Call it 14 all you want, it's still 13! You're still cursed - you're just playing ostrich about it."  I don't know who I'd shout it to, but the impulse is there.

i was in a building where the 13th floor was given over to maintenance (was labelled Maintenance on the elevator and had a key slot instead of a button), so there were no tenants or public areas on it.  

my SIL lives in a town that numbers its east-west running streets.  she lives on what would be the 13th one, but it's called East Street.  yep, they have 12th, East, 14th.

[GrumpyGran]

You can shout it at me, @AnywhereButHere. I was born on Friday the 13th. Cursed, damn, I just can't shake it. LOL. But it's a good excuse! Still not going in a building with the number 666 though. The last election has made me believe in the devil again.

[nvmbr02]

@GrumpyGran My dad was also born on Friday the 13th! We always joke with him that he is cursed with women. 

[AuntK]

On 6/4/2017 at 7:10 PM, ShepherdontheRock said:

CNN and the rest of the media need to fucking stop sucking up to Ivanka. I'm fucking serious. I don't give a fuck that she's pretty and blonde and "nice" on the outside. 

Also how can she be the "most powerful Jewish woman" when she ain't even a Jew. Or powerful in any real capacity. 

She's an insult to any woman who's legitimately had to work for anything. 

Amen, sistah! And she's not really blonde, either!

[onekidanddone]

On 6/4/2017 at 7:10 PM, ShepherdontheRock said:

Also how can she be the "most powerful Jewish woman" when she ain't even a Jew. Or powerful in any real capacity. 

If the story of her going through the full conversion is true, then she is Jewish 

[sawasdee]

@onekidanddone Where the trumps are concerned, what is truth? A moveable feast.

[GreyhoundFan]

I love the twitter replies to Ivanka's "brand" making Father's Day gift suggestions: "Twitter Had A Field Day With The Ivanka Trump Brand Father’s Day Gift Guide"

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Father’s Day is fast approaching, and lifestyle brands are sharing their top gift recommendations ― that includes Ivanka Trump’s brand.

On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump HQ tweeted out its Father’s Day gift guide. 

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The tweet features a photo of gift options, like grilling tools and coasters. “Whether a football lover or a coffee aficionado, these picks will please every dad,” Ivanka Trump HQ wrote. 

Trump has made moves to distance herself from her clothing and lifestyle brand and currently serves as an “assistant to the president,” but “Team Ivanka” remains in operation.

When Twitter users saw the Father’s Day gift guide, they were quick to direct their responses to the brand’s founder and namesake.

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[JMarie]

4 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I love the twitter replies to Ivanka's "brand" making Father's Day gift suggestions: "Twitter Had A Field Day With The Ivanka Trump Brand Father’s Day Gift Guide"

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Father’s Day is fast approaching, and lifestyle brands are sharing their top gift recommendations ― that includes Ivanka Trump’s brand.

On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump HQ tweeted out its Father’s Day gift guide. 

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The tweet features a photo of gift options, like grilling tools and coasters. “Whether a football lover or a coffee aficionado, these picks will please every dad,” Ivanka Trump HQ wrote. 

Trump has made moves to distance herself from her clothing and lifestyle brand and currently serves as an “assistant to the president,” but “Team Ivanka” remains in operation.

When Twitter users saw the Father’s Day gift guide, they were quick to direct their responses to the brand’s founder and namesake.

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I can't imagine Trump playing football or grilling anything.

[fraurosena]

11 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I love the twitter replies to Ivanka's "brand" making Father's Day gift suggestions: "Twitter Had A Field Day With The Ivanka Trump Brand Father’s Day Gift Guide"

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Father’s Day is fast approaching, and lifestyle brands are sharing their top gift recommendations ― that includes Ivanka Trump’s brand.

On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump HQ tweeted out its Father’s Day gift guide. 

...

The tweet features a photo of gift options, like grilling tools and coasters. “Whether a football lover or a coffee aficionado, these picks will please every dad,” Ivanka Trump HQ wrote. 

Trump has made moves to distance herself from her clothing and lifestyle brand and currently serves as an “assistant to the president,” but “Team Ivanka” remains in operation.

When Twitter users saw the Father’s Day gift guide, they were quick to direct their responses to the brand’s founder and namesake.

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And no one is giving a damn about the emoluments clause. 

I guess she'd have to have a (D) behind her name for that, though.

[GrumpyGran]

17 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I love the twitter replies to Ivanka's "brand" making Father's Day gift suggestions: "Twitter Had A Field Day With The Ivanka Trump Brand Father’s Day Gift Guide"

  Reveal hidden contents

Father’s Day is fast approaching, and lifestyle brands are sharing their top gift recommendations ― that includes Ivanka Trump’s brand.

On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump HQ tweeted out its Father’s Day gift guide. 

...

The tweet features a photo of gift options, like grilling tools and coasters. “Whether a football lover or a coffee aficionado, these picks will please every dad,” Ivanka Trump HQ wrote. 

Trump has made moves to distance herself from her clothing and lifestyle brand and currently serves as an “assistant to the president,” but “Team Ivanka” remains in operation.

When Twitter users saw the Father’s Day gift guide, they were quick to direct their responses to the brand’s founder and namesake.

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It was all fun and games until I got to the picture of her on his lap. I had just eaten lunch! I've seen waaaay too many pictures of her on his lap. Pretty sure I quit sitting on my dad's lap when I turned six or so. 'Course my dad wasn't a perv.