Ivanka Trump Partied with Trump-Haters Prior to Inauguration

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Disloyal: Ivanka Trump Partied with Trump-Haters Prior to Inauguration
Posted by Lee Stranahan | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured, News | 18  |     
http://thepopulist.us/2017/04/disloyal-ivanka-trump-partied-with-trump-haters-prior-to-election/

  "Introduction
   
   Some have suggested that President Trump has elevated his daughter
   Ivanka Trump to a position of power inside the White House because of
   her "loyalty" to him, but based on the people she chose to surround
   herself with just prior to Trump taking office, her loyalty to her
   father seems suspect.
   
   Multiple news sources reported that in January, shortly before Donald
   Trump was inaugurated as President, Ivanka Trump had a "secret dinner
   party" that was organized by her advisor Dina Powell. The guest list
   seems to not include a single person who supported her father during
   the election. Instead the list included people who didn't merely
   support her father's opponent Hillary Clinton during the election, but
   who actively and publicly insulted, demeaned, criticized and attacked
   her father both before and after his election.
   
   Given Ivanka's role in what The Populist has referred to as The Coup
   against the ideas that Donald Trump promised his supporters he believed
   and Ivanka's role setting policy in the administration, it's
   disturbing. Ivanka used the occasion not merely to have dinner with but
   to seek advice from the Trump haters. It also helps explain headlines
   like "Ivanka Trump influenced my father to launch Syria strikes,
   reveals brother Eric."
   
   Why would Ivanka Trump surround herself with a group of people who
   clearly loathe her father, the ideas he ran on and his supporters? Why
   seek counsel from those who worked to defeat and humiliate Donald
   Trump? As the Los Angeles Time reported:
   
      It looks like Ivanka is trying to regain the respect of the Democrats
      and independents with whom she socialized for much of her adult life.
      People working with her and her husband have leaked reports about how
      they are persuading the president not to revoke protection for the LGBT
      community or to completely defund Planned Parenthood.
     
      During the transition, she helped bring former vice president and
      environmental activist Al Gore to Trump Tower to brief her father, a
      skeptic about climate change, and floated the idea of becoming a
      climate czar within the administration. She is now focused on child
      care and maternity leave, an issue historically championed by Democrats.
     
      "She is very well-versed in the issues, thoughtful and sincere," said
      Sheila Marcelo, the chief executive of Care.com, who attended a dinner
      party in January at the home of Wendi Deng at which Ivanka Trump
      solicited ideas from business executives, many of whom had been
      fundraising for Hillary Clinton during the campaign.
   
   First, we'll look at the stories about party and then go through the
   attendees and what they've said about Donald Trump and the ideas he
   espoused during the election.
   
   Donald Trump is known to prize loyalty, but this trait does not seem to
   have been passed on to either his daughter nor her close advisor Dina
   Powell, who has risen quickly in the administration and put together
   the event. Powell was made deputy defense advisor shortly before Donald
   Trump ordered a missile strike on Syria.
   
   It's hard to grasp why she or Ivanka surround Ivanka with people so
   hostile to the agenda that got her father elected...until you look at the
   details about Dina Powell, her Goldman Sachs colleague Gary Cohn or The
   Coup they've undertaken.
   
   The Stories
   
   Ivanka Trump dines with female media personalities and executives ahead
   of move to Washington
   
      The private gathering was organized by Dina Powell, a longtime Goldman
      Sachs executive who has been advising Ivanka Trump and this week
      announced she would be leaving the financial firm to take a job in the
      White House as an assistant to the president and senior counselor for
      economic initiatives. Ivanka Trump was instrumental in recruiting her
      to the new administration, an aide said.
     
      The group, according to one attendee, included Tina Brown, the longtime
      journalist and magazine editor; Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's
      "Morning Joe"; Tory Burch, the fashion designer behind the eponymous
      brand; model Christy Turlington Burns; Ursula Burns, chair of Xerox;
      Cathy Engelbert, chief executive of Deloitte; Nancy Gibbs, managing
      editor of Time magazine; Cindi Leive, editor of Glamour; Dana Perino,
      former White House press secretary; Ginni Rometty, head of IBM; and
      Pattie Sellers, executive director of Fortune's Most Powerful Women
      summits.
     
      Two men — Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and
      former mayor of New Orleans, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford
      Foundation — also attended. Morial and Rometty seemed to have the seats
      of honor, on either side of Ivanka Trump.
   
   Ivanka Trump Threw a Secret Dinner Party at Wendi Murdoch's Apartment
   
      the guest list was comprised of "IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Deloitte CEO
      Cathy Engelbert, Xerox chairman Ursula Burns, Tory Burch, Mika
      Brzezinski, Tina Brown, Christy Turlington Burns, Time editor Nancy
      Gibbs, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, National Urban League
      CEO Marc Morial, and Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell." Powell has
      been lured away from her gig at Goldman Sachs to work as an assistant
      to Donald Trump, as well as a "senior counselor for economic
      initiatives."
     
      Sellers added, "Trump explained that she wanted to learn from the
      efforts of leaders in their fields. We talked about entrepreneurship,
      equal pay, paid leave, and a lot about where the Donald Trump
      Administration may have the most opportunity: education."
   
   Ivanka Trump lays groundwork for policy role in Washington
   
      On Thursday, she attended a dinner with female executives at the home
      of her friend Wendi Deng, ex-wife of media executive Rubert Murdoch.
      The dinner was put together by Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs partner who
      is joining the Trump administration as an assistant to the president
      and senior counselor for economic initiatives. Powell has been advising
      Ivanka Trump and is expected to continue working closely with her.
     
      Other guests included MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski,
      model Christy Turlington Burns, former White House press secretary Dana
      Perino, Xerox Chairperson Ursula Burns, Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert,
      Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cynthia Leive and Time Managing Editor Nancy
      Gibbs. Another attendee, Pattie Sellers, executive director of
      Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summits, wrote on Fortune.com that Ivanka
      Trump "explained that she wanted to learn from the efforts of leaders
      in their fields."
     
      Also there was Sheila Marcelo, founder of www.care.com, a website that
      connects families with caregivers, said an attendee who spoke on
      condition of anonymity because it was a private dinner. Marcelo spoke
      about the high cost of caregiving, both for children and adult family
      members.
   
   The Disloyalty File: Who Was There
   And what they've said about Donald Trump
   Nancy Gibbs, Editor of Time
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851928931330609152
   
   Trump named Time Person of the Year, editor Nancy Gibbs says
   
   For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth
   is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering
   a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its
   fears, and for framing tomorrow's political culture by demolishing
   yesterday's, Donald Trump is TIME's 2016 Person of the Year.
   
   When a President Can't Be Taken at His Word
   
   Dana Perino – Fox News host
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851927356600184833
   
   Just the month before the election...
   
   Fox News' Dana Perino On Donald Trump: "I'm Done!"
   
   Watch Dana Perino Remind People Why GWB Won't Endorse Trump
   
   Watch: Perino, Bolling in Shouting Match Over Trump – Breitbart
   
   Cynthia Leive – Glamour Editor-in-Chief
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851921674836606978
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851923244387053570
   
   In This Election, I'm With Her
   
      As the editor of a brand that values all political perspectives, I've
      never wanted to discuss my choice before. This year is different.
     
      ....
     
      And through his actions and words, Donald Trump has told us that he
      condones white supremacy. That if a woman is being harassed at work,
      she should find a new job. That rape in the military is the inevitable
      result of having women serve. He has told us—before he got clobbered
      for it—that he would support "some form of punishment" for the roughly
      one in four of you reading this story who have had an abortion. That
      he's willing to dismiss professional women he doesn't care for as
      having "the face of a dog" or "a fat ass," and that he'll get up at 5
      AM in the middle of a presidential election to do it. That he is up for
      mocking the grief of a ­Muslim American Gold Star mom. He has told us,
      essentially, that he is a bumbling old-school chauvinist at best, a
      misogynist at worst, and a man who believes that simply declaring "I
      love women"—a statement so banal any human could make it—somehow
      tempers decades of disdain and an almost-total absence of helpful
      policy on the issues women care about. He has told us who he is.
   
   Mika Brzezinski — co-host on the MSNBC show Morning Joe/h3>
   
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851913619474452481
   
   Trump Campaign Calls Out MSNBC's Brzezinski's Admitted 'Bias'
   
      "'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski unbelievably went into full
      meltdown mode and admitted she can't fairly cover the election
      unbiasedly, before turning on Pastor Mark Burns."
   
      Brzezinski said: "And I can't pretend and, sort of, try to cover this
      fairly and put into the veil of objectivity."
   
   MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski calls Trump's term 'a fake presidency'
   
   https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/840660845516447744
   https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/851883029299638272
   
   Marc Morial – president of the National Urban League
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851893696010309632
   
   Urban League CEO says Trump has made racist statements
   
   Civil Rights Groups Sound the Alarm About the Trump Administration
   
      The groups also refused to say whether they would seek a meeting with
      Trump before or after his inauguration. "Today is not a day to discuss
      meetings. Today is a day to say as loudly as possibly where we stand,"
      said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.
   
   Christie Turlington
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851911335986311169
   https://twitter.com/CTurlington/status/846889823415652352
   https://twitter.com/CTurlington/status/830847757485277185
   https://twitter.com/CTurlington/status/830052348500275200
   
   Tory Burch – Fashion designer
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851911335986311169
   
   Where To Buy Cute Hillary Clinton Merch If You Want To Rep Your Girl
   
      Back in February, a photo of Kendall Jenner in a Hillary Clinton tee
      made rounds on the Internet after she posted the selfie on Instagram.
      And, we saw Anna Wintour rocking one too, and we learned that Public
      School, Marc Jacobs, and Tory Burch had all made tees in support of
      Clinton. Public School's was minimalist and cool, the Marc Jacobs
      classic, and the Tory Burch quite colorful.
   
   Tory Busch's campaign donations — Hillary and Democrats.
   
   Ursula Burns – Xerox CEO
   https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/851919785986228224
   
   Xerox CEO Ursula Burns on Clinton's VP shortlist, email shows
   
      A stolen email released by WikiLeaks shows that Xerox Corp. CEO Ursula
      Burns was on Hillary Clinton's shortlist for vice president.
   
      The list, compiled by campaign manager John Podesta in March 2016,
      included 26 names on what was described as "a first cut of people worth
      considering."
   
   9 CEOs With the Absolute Worst Reputations
   
      Ursula Burns made headlines in 2009 when she became the first
      African-American woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Burns has been
      exceptionally visible during her tenure, making frequent public
      appearances even as the company's prospects have faltered. Burns pushed
      for the $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services that
      closed in 2010, claiming it would help the business. Xerox Corp. (NYSE:
      XRX), though, has yet to see any substantial benefit from the deal.
      Late last year, the company called the police prior to announcing 168
      layoffs at its Cary, N.C., facility, noting they "were expecting
      trouble." It was the second round of a total of roughly 500 layoffs.
      This treatment of employees stands in contrast to how the board treats
      Burns, awarding her an average of $13 million a year between 2010 and
      2012. One former employee, commenting on Glassdoor, said, "Most upper
      management have received salary increase over the last 6 years, but
      staff has not."
   
   In 2011, Obama convened a jobs council that was led by GE CEO Jeff
   Immelt and an export council headed by Xerox Corp. CEO Ursula Burns.
   
   Ursula Burns' political donations included thousands of dollars to
   Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
   
   Darren Walker – President of Institutional Left Funder Ford Foundation
   
   Darren Walker's campaign donations are to Democrats and Democrat
   organizations.
   
      Darren Walker is President of the Ford Foundation, the nation's second
      largest philanthropy, and for two decades has been a leader in the
      nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. He led the philanthropy committee
      that helped bring a resolution to the city of Detroit's historic
      bankruptcy and chairs the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance.
     
      Prior to joining Ford, he was Vice President at the Rockefeller
      Foundation where he managed the rebuild New Orleans initiative after
      Hurricane Katrina.  In the 1990s, as COO of Harlem's largest community
      development organization, the Abyssinian Development Corporation,
      Darren oversaw a comprehensive revitalization program of central
      Harlem, including over 1,000 new units of housing. He had a decade long
      career in international law and finance at Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
      Hamilton and UBS.  He is a member of the Commission on the Future of
      Riker's Island and serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, New York City
      Ballet, the High Line, the Arcus Foundation and PepsiCo.
   
   More on the Ford Foundation

   Discover the Networks: Ford Creates the Open-Borders Lobby
   
      The concept of "open borders" has long been an leading agenda item for
      the political and ideological Left. Since the 1960s, a vast network —
      including hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots
      activists, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from leftwing
      foundations — has waged a sustained campaign to open America's borders
      to a mass migration from the Third World. Though these groups talk in
      terms of "human rights," the rights they demand are not the
      restrictions on government enshrined in the American Bill of Rights,
      but the claims on society for "equity" and "welfare" and special
      treatment for designated groups that are the familiar menu of the Left
      and would, if enacted, amount to a revolution in America's existing
      social order. Which is precisely their intent.
     
      The "open borders" movement emerged from the radicalism of the 1960s
      and matured in the fight over amnesty for illegal aliens in the 1980s.
      It gained a certain mainstream status in the 1990s as the
      "globalization" and "multilateralism" fads of the decade encouraged
      talk of a "world without borders" and the decline (even the demise) of
      the nation-state. At the center of the movement was the Ford Foundation
      – the largest tax-exempt foundation in the world, and one increasingly
      guided by the political Left.
   
   Many connections to Soros, such as:
   
   Soros, Ford Foundations 'Lavish' $196 Million to Push Internet
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Wendi Deng and Ivanka Trump attend the Women's Brain Health Initiative Launch in 2015. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

LOVE LIVES
Wendi Deng Intervened When Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Broke Up in 2008
By Nicholas Hautman  August 16, 2016
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/wendi-deng-intervened-in-ivanka-trump-jared-kushners-2008-split-w434681

  "An unexpected matchmaker. Wendi Deng was responsible for getting Ivanka
   Trump and Jared Kushner back together following the now-married
   couple's brief split in 2008.
   
   PHOTOS: Donald Trump's Most Offensive and Outrageous Quotes

   According to The New Yorker's August 22 profile of the pair, Deng, now
   47, invited Trump, 34, and Kushner, 35, on her and then-husband Rupert
   Murdoch's yacht in an attempt to reconcile their broken relationship.
   However, Deng didn't alert the real estate heirs that she had invited
   both of them.
   
   After Trump and Kushner broke up over their religious differences
   (Kushner is Jewish and Trump was Presbyterian at the time), Deng called
   Kushner (publisher of The New York Observer) and said, "You're working
   so hard. Come with Rupert and me on the boat for the weekend,"
   according to The New Yorker.
   
   
   Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump attend the Ninth Annual Eric Trump
   Foundation Golf Invitational Auction & Dinner in 2015. Grant Lamos
   IV/Getty Images
   
   PHOTOS: Celebrity CEOs: Stars Who Run Their Own Business Empires

   Once Kushner arrived, he reportedly found that Trump had also been
   invited on the family's boat.
   
   Things apparently went well, as the couple tied the knot in a
   traditional Jewish ceremony in October 2009. Prior to the wedding,
   Trump underwent a rigorous process to convert to Judaism, which
   included "extensive study of the Torah, the laws of Judaism and a deep
   commitment to religious observance," The New Yorker reports.
   
   Trump and Kushner now have three children, Arabella, 5, Joseph, 2, and
   Theodore, 4 months.
   
   PHOTOS: Donald Trump's Former Flames

   As previously reported, the former Apprentice boardroom judge — who is
   the daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his
   first wife, Ivana Trump — and Deng recently went on a trip to
   Dubrovnik, Croatia, where the pals went sightseeing together.
   
   Us Weekly exclusively revealed in March that Deng is now dating Russian
   president Vladimir Putin.
   
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Alex Brandon/AP
Ivanka's Business Booming: Chinese Gov't Approves Three Trademarks for First Daughter's Company
by PENNY STARR | 18 Apr 2017 | 761
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/18/ivankas-business-booming-chinese-govt-approves-three-trademarks-for-first-daughters-company/

  "It may not be illegal to use the prestige of government service to
   positively impact one's private sector business pursuits, "but criminal
   conflict of interest law prohibits federal officials, like Trump and
   her husband [Jared Kushner], from participating in government matters
   that could impact their own financial interest or that of their
   spouse," the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
     
   Earlier this month Ivanka Trump Marks LLC won provisional approval from
   the Chinese government for three trademarks for her line of jewelry,
   handbags, and spa services — which protects her brand by giving the
   company exclusive rights to sell it in that country.
   
   AP reported, without providing sources or links, that the trademarks
   were approved on the same night that Trump and Ivanka's husband dined
   with Chinese President Xi Jinping at President Donald Trump's
   Mar-a-Lago, Fla. home, adding that they ate "steak and Dover sole."
   
   "The scenario underscores how difficult it is for Trump, who has tried
   to distance herself from the brand that bears her name, to separate
   business from politics in her new position at the White House," AP
   reported.
   
   The AP story does include some facts that disclose what the first
   daughter, who is serving as an adviser to her father, has done to take
   steps to address even the "appearance" of ethical concerns or conflict
   of interest, including a statement from Trump's attorney.
   
   "Ivanka will not weigh in on business strategy, marketing issues, or
   the commercial terms of agreements," Jamie Gorelick said in a
   statement. "She has retained authority to direct the trustees to
   terminate agreements that she determines create a conflict of interest
   or the appearance of one."
   
   "China, however, remains a nagging concern," AP reported.
   
   "Ivanka has so many China ties and conflicts, yet she and Jared appear
   deeply involved in China contacts and policy," Norman Eisen, who served
   as chief White House ethics lawyer under Barack Obama said in the AP
   report.
   
   "I would never have allowed it. For their own sake, and the country's,
   Ivanka and Jared should consider stepping away from China matters,"
   Eisen said.
   
   AP reported that Ivanka's fashion business ventures are doing
   exceedingly well:
   
      The number of Ivanka Trump items sold through [the fashion website]
      Lyst was 46 percent higher the month her father was elected president
      than in November 2015. Sales spiked 771 percent in February over the
      same month last year. In March sales on Lyst were up 262 percent over
      the same period last year.
   
   Net sales for Trump's G-III Apparel Group Ltd. clothing line increased
   by $17.9 million during the year that ended Jan. 31.
   
   "Her brand is flourishing, despite boycotts and several stores limiting
   her merchandise," AP reported, noting that U.S. imports, almost all
   from China, rose some 166 percent last year with sales hitting record
   levels in 2017.
   
   AP noted that during the summit with Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping,
   Ivanka Trump's 5-year-old daughter Arabella sang a Chinese song in
   Mandarin. The video of the performance was viewed over 2.2 million
   times on Chinese state media.
   
   https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/850689690080395265
   
   In February, after remarks in support of Trump's fashion and beauty
   line were made by President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, Nordstrom
   announced it would no longer sell the brand.
   
   A Breitbart News exclusive revealed that the move by the retailer
   backfired:
   
      Retail department store Nordstrom's decision last week to cut first
      daughter Ivanka Trump's fashion line has sparked a tremendous backlash
      from consumers—especially women—who say the company's move has led them
      to boycott the store and cut up their Nordstrom's cards.
   
      Nordstrom's claimed that the Ivanka Trump brand wasn't performing well,
      but industry insiders tell Breitbart News that's just not accurate.
      Nordstrom's decision to mislead the public on why they are stopping
      carrying the Ivanka Trump brand is part of the fury out there among its
      longtime customers, who tell Breitbart News they're cutting up their
      Nordstrom's cards and won't shop at the store anymore. Some even say
      they plan to return all their recent purchases.
   
   Aside from trademarks in China, Ivanka Trump's brand also has obtained
   or applied for them in numerous countries, including Canada, India,
   Japan, Israel, Mexico, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and Europe, AP
   reported.
   
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