Lara Trump uses alternative facts to brag about her father-in-laws record of hiring women

Source: Think Progress

Lara Trump, who is not only married to Eric Trump but is also a senior adviser to her father-in-law’s 2020 re-election campaign, used International Women’s Day to say two nice things about her father-in-law’s record on women that are not exactly true.

In an interview on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo that covered topics ranging from trade tariffs to the 2020 election, the discussion turned to International Women’s Day. Bartiromo contrasted a February NBC interview where Ivanka Trump rejected a question about the 14 women accusing her father of sexual assault with a recent ABC interview with Chelsea Clinton where she was not asked about Bill Clinton. She asked Lara Trump what she thought about that. Lara Trump called it “shocking, ridiculous, sad,” and lamented the “double standard” in the media.

Bartiromo then said, “we will leave it there — the president actually has a lot of women in his administration, doesn’t he?”

Lara Trump replied, “yes, the most of any president, I believe, and one of the first, or I think the first to have a woman in charge of his campaign, so there you go.”

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