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While visiting Germany in her first visit overseas as a member of the presidential staff, Ivanka Trump downplayed front-page headlines there calling her a loyal accomplice to her father.
I dont like the word accomplice because in this context, I dont know that thats productive, she said in an exclusive interview with NBC News' White House correspondent Hallie Jackson.
http://www.today.com/news/ivanka-trump-talks-today-exclusive-interview-i-don-t-word-t110776
noun
noun: accomplice; plural noun: accomplices
a person who helps another commit a crime.
synonyms: partner in crime, associate, accessory, abettor, confederate, collaborator, fellow conspirator, co-conspirator; henchman;
president's whisperer...
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)FDT..& accomplices. ALL of 'em.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,743 posts)Some serious denial is going on there. The apple didn't fall far from the paternal tree.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Scoopster
(423 posts)Stop aiding & abetting a criminal enterprise then.
Coventina
(27,123 posts)If she's the brightest of the bunch, they are a pretty dumb family.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Ivanka had better get all the deals she can get, since her father famously told Stern that woman are too old once they turn 35. Unlike HIM, of course, who seems to think he is virile, handsome and desirable.
sad1
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)underpants
(182,837 posts)Let's be honest, they are close to a turnip truck by Manhattan/blue blood standards.
Hugin
(33,167 posts)I think they're being polite with 'accomplice'.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)That she is an accomplice in all of his 'empowering of women'? What good is an accomplice if your accomplice won't accomplice you?
Sort of like how the hell can I talk about hell if hell is a swear word and I can't say hell?
What in the hot damn hell is she getting on about?
If that's the worst of her worries - then its time to gird her loins because we are just getting started here.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)spanone
(135,846 posts)malaise
(269,065 posts)She an unqualified accomplice to boot!
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)Ivanka Antoinette also tried to redefine the word "complicit" recently. I guess we're supposed to keep a list of words that the imaginary princess "doesn't like" and should refrain from using in her presence.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)isn't gonna like the other.
Yonnie3
(17,444 posts)I wonder if she truly believes her father is doing nothing wrong. Of course, even if she believes that, she is still an accomplice. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Just suck it up Ivanka or better yet quit the criminal enterprise.
I was in Bremen Germany in the 90's and was walking back to my hotel via the town square. There was a cacophony of bicycle bells, whistling, hissing and general racket. There was a man on a stage speaking over a PA, but I could not hear a word over the crowd. I asked my host what was happening and he replied that the politician speaking was not liked in northern Germany. When we got closer I asked my host what the man was saying. "Be afraid of the Russians. Only I can protect you." Doesn't that sound familiar? I don't remember his name, but he was running for Chancellor and as I recall lost badly.
My point with this story was Ms. Trump was treated well in comparison to this man.
CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)Wear it Ivanka as you are a spawn of the devil!
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Surely you have much more to concern yourself about.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Fuck you, Ivanka.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)No one is forcing you.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)if the shoe fits...
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Cry us a river.
Demsrule86
(68,599 posts)call her complicit? You have blood on your hands and looked like a fool in a room with women who have real accomplishments and are not just Daddy's little princess.
Gothmog
(145,344 posts)The truth hurts
wishstar
(5,270 posts)As was Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush since their husbands needed support and propping up, but at least they were not grifters seeking to enrich their own brand of merchandise.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Butterfly Princess Grifter Sof-Tone (TM) is not pleased!
pnwest
(3,266 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)and bottles at the ready at all times.
Apologies to actual babies everywhere.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Well said!
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)What do you say Ivanka?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)on it.
ivanka-drumpfuck's Accomplice.. freaking partner in crime.. Fucking with the Planet.. there.. that better?
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)They both fit her perfectly.
DinahMoeHum
(21,795 posts)With apologies to Bob Marley.
samnsara
(17,623 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)fits wear it.
LakeArenal
(28,823 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Step 1)
Step 2)
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Her new official title.
FSogol
(45,491 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)but you can't be an innocent bystander. Do the right thing and get your mentally ill Dad out of office.
Or else you are an accomplice. To the crime of the century.
Why don't you find out what you are helping him do, you innocent snowflake you?
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)If she didn't know she was stepping into a fishbowl where everything you say or do is parsed and examined, it is high time she learned it. Her father is a highly controversial figure who has created the persona he presents to the public. Of all people, she should be the one to know him and in fact, has been a close confidant and advisor to him since her younger days. So for her to get her ass on her shoulder about being called an accomplice is a bit much. I guess since we generally talk about accomplices in terms of a criminal act, it stings to be thought of as a criminal.
Get used to it, Buttercup, and buckle up. Your ride on this train is just getting started.
unblock
(52,257 posts)if accused of murder, would an innocent person say, "hey, that's not productive"?
if someone said you were a rapist, would you say, "hey, I don't like that word"?
she damn well knows "accomplice" is exactly what she is.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)That's all.
LisaM
(27,815 posts)I didn't like having my heart ripped out on November 8th. That wasn't productive for me at all.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That's exactly what you are.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Because ACCOMPLICE is just what Ivanka is to Cheeto.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)The Accomplice: Premise will be that each week former members of the Trump campaign, administration, and remaining appointees will be brought before a review panel (special prosecutor). At the end of each episode, the one receiving the most stabs in the back from fellow contestants will be escorted, perp walk style, from the studio after being told "You're Indicted!"
Surely will be "Must see TV!"
Johonny
(20,854 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)2. Stop working your business now. No more seeking permits, etc.
3. Turn over the evidence on Jared and his associations with criminals.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Suck it up and be the filthy rich daughter of an arrogant, blustering, know-nothing of a criminal chief executive hellbent on filling up his pockets with as much cash as he can in the shortest amount of time. You deserve the criticism. You've got enough wealth to give everyone the finger and love it. Why should you give a damn what others think now? You never did and neither does your old man.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)...suck it up, buttercup.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)You'll be called far worse before this terrible administration is over.
Initech
(100,082 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Poor little czarina, she and her daddy-man don't understand why nobody loves them.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Poor, poor little daughter-wife. She's just as thin-skinned as her asshole father.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Worthy of a Trump accomplice.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Ivanka vicious just demonstrated, to the world - just how vicious she is...lacking in the social graces...and lying for her feeble father about his support for women...and this new foreign funded foundation - what a crock...I just hate when people project..it's all about me....I will just say, congrats Hallie...
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)about some one hurting your feelings
This is what you have done since you were given your nepotism job from your sexual predator father:
And you seem to forget that your traveling around looking like a wart on a toad, you went to China and got three, yes three copyright plans to have items made in China to exploit woman in china and other workers for 1 dollar an hour, just like your proverbial sexual predator father going around and saying that he will bring jobs back, when he has neck tie hanging around his sexual predator neck made in China, so in closing FU
"Ivanka Trumps Clothing Line Is Made in a Chinese Factory Where Workers Earn $1 an Hour
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A view of an Ivanka Trump brand coat for sale on Feb. 10 in New York City.
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Donald Trump and his offspringnow that theyre in and around the White Houselike to say theyre champions of the American worker, preferably coal. This sleight of hand from the Trump gene pool comes despite having lived lives, over the course of decades, relentlessly focused on enriching themselves at the expense of othersoften workers, contractors, investors, taxpayers, you name it. The latest example of the familys me-first priorities, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, is that the fashion line of Ivanka Trumpself-styled champion of working womenis manufactured in China at a factory where workers are forced to work beyond the legal limit of allowable overtime in the country for what could be less than minimum wage. (The location of the factory was not disclosed in the audit, so it is not clear if local minimum wage laws were broken.)
Workers at a factory in China used by the company that makes clothing for Ivanka Trumps fashion line and other brands worked nearly 60 hours a week to earn wages of little more than $62 a week, according to a factory audit released Monday, the Post reports. The factorys 80 workers knit clothes for the contractor, G-III Apparel Group, which has held the exclusive license to make the Ivanka Trump brands $158 dresses, $79 blouses and other clothes since 2012.
The October 2016 inspection of the G-III factorycarried out by an industry self-monitoring collective, the Fair Labor Association, which includes companies like Nikefound two-dozen violations of international labor standards as determined by the United Nations International Labor Organization. The G-III factory also produces clothing for other brands, including Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
From the Post:
Workers at the G-III factory in China were required to work 57 hours a week on a regular basis to hit production targets, inspectors found. Though Chinese law sets the limit for overtime at 36 hours per month, workers in all of the factorys departments exceeded that limit, working up to 82 hours of overtime a month between September 2015 and August 2016. The factorys workers made between 1,879 and 2,088 yuan a month, or roughly $255 to $283, which would be below minimum wage in some parts of China. The average manufacturing employee in urban China made twice as much money as the factorys workers, or roughly 4,280 yuan a month, according to national data from 2014.
Fewer than a third of the factorys workers were offered legally mandated coverage under Chinas social insurance benefits, including a pension and medical, maternity, unemployment and work-related injury insurance, inspectors found. The factory also did not contribute, as legally required, to a fund designed to help workers afford housing, inspectors said. Workers earned five days of leave a year, though a small fraction of experienced employees were eligible for more
Inspectors also cited the factory for a number of workplace safety concerns.
G-III has been the exclusive supplier of Ivankas clothing line since 2012 and contracts out the production of the products mostly in China. The factory pledged to make some progress to improve training, assess hazards, hire more workers and reduce overtime demands, according to the Post. But it did not commit to increasing worker pay and at times pushed back against recommendations that could improve workplace safety.
LakeArenal
(28,823 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)I don't care if she doesn't like it. She has inserted herself into public life and those who do that will suffer the consequences of doing that.
In my opinion, the term fits perfectly.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)Bettie
(16,111 posts)Daughter-wife.
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)Do you like that any better, sugar princess?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/rundown/trump-okd-business-partner-with-alleged-iran-laundering-ties
"Six months before he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump announced a new real estate project in Baku, Azerbaijan. His partner was the son of a government minister suspected by U.S. diplomats of laundering money for Iran's military and described as "notoriously corrupt."
Eighteen months later, and only weeks after daughter Ivanka Trump released a publicity video of the nearly finished project, references to the Baku project have disappeared from Trump's website. Trump's general counsel, Alan Garten, told The Associated Press that it was on hold for economic reasons.".
area51
(11,912 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)buttercup.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)boston bean
(36,222 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)sounds so much more appropriate in the mother language
alarimer
(16,245 posts)What a twit.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)I haven't actually heard her speak much at all. But if she does not have a cold or chest congestion, there is something wrong with her vocal chords. It hurts my ears to hear her talk.