Posted on 08/02/2018 8:38:06 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Ivanka Trump broke with her father’s administration on Thursday, calling President Donald Trump’s policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border a “low point” during her time in the White House, and saying she "vehemently" opposed the policy.
“That was a low point for me as well. I feel very strongly about that, and I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children, so I would agree with that sentiment,” she said when asked about the policy at Axios’s “Conversation on Workforce Development” Forum.
“I think immigration is incredibly complex as a topic," she added. "Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated. I am the daughter of an immigrant. My mother [Ivana Trump] grew up in Communist Czech Republic, but we are a country of law. So, she came to this country legally."
She also said that she did not see the press as “the enemy of the people,” an oft-repeated phrase employed by the president to attack members of the media, usually because of negative coverage of his administratio
“I’ve certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate, so I’ve had some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they’re sort of, feel targeted,” she said. “But no, I do not feel that the media is the 'enemy of the people.'”
She also discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, saying she has not been contacted by Mueller’s office and had not known anything at the time about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where top members of the president’s campaign met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin.
Too bad she’s so easily misled by fake news.
I wish she would SHUT UP about stuff she knows little about. She is supplying the dummocraps rich fodder with her mindless yapping.
Ivanka is trying to keep her liberal street creds. She is liberal, always has been. Anytime she is involved in a decision, I cringe because PT does listen to her advice.
Ivanka...do you really think you’ll make points with these bastards by sucking up to them? They’ll flush you down the toilet once they’ve gotten what they want. You’re nothing but toilet paper to them.
Obviously NO CLEAR understanding of the situation. Or, maybe lil Jimmie acosta texted her.
Freeper calls Ivanka Trump a ‘low point’ for the administration
Why can’t she go home and spend time with family. Sure didn’t vote for her father as president to hear her views. Maybe she should ask why they were even allowed into the country in the first place? Why they were sent home as a family?
If one child is saved from victimization by hardened criminals, the separations are worth it. People lose sight of that.
She feeeeeeeelz. In contrast, President Donald Trump follows law and court decision. So glad she ain’t President.
Idiot. Sounds like a RINO criticizing Trump.
Need Blondie to go back to NYC and do lunch with her rich buddies and leave dealing with reality to the adults.
“”””””Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated.”””””””
Actually it is quite simple. If you are not here legally then get out or go to jail. Quite simple to me.
She should visit some US jails and prisons. She will find that none has a daycare. If you get arrested in this country your kids don’t get to go with you.
I have a liberal daughter. I lover her and even like a lot of things about her. Her liberal sensibilities are very useful to me to interpret and understand what other liberals say.
I’d never take her advice on anything relevant to her liberal beliefs though.
Careful....if you attack Ivanka, you attack Melania.
Her statement isn’t unreasonable, but she definitely doesn’t know or understand (like her father does) the the MSM doesn’t care about nuance or details.
She also doesn’t get that everyone connected with Trump are considered the enemy. the media will lie, spin and obfuscate to destroy her and her Father.
Fake NBC news. What was it supposed to be, a highlight? The separations have been going on for decades. She said her mom came in legally.
<><> they are well-taken care of in US custody b/c your Dad's admin wants to make sure the kids are not being
trafficked for sex or other nefarious purposes.
<><>callous Third World parents willingly leave their children behind to ride the US gravy train.
Their kids are sent alone on long journeys to the border and when the freeloading parents show up to claim them,
they whine about being "separated."
Um; this was happening long before President Trump was sworn in.
Besides; what option is there. The children must be separated from the adults while a background check is being done to make sure the kids aren’t being trafficked to some pimp.
Maybe Ivanka would leave her children with a kidnapper but I’m glad we don’t.
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