Ivanka Trump either had classified info or embarrassed herself to Korean president: MSNBC analyst

[ehrnst]

“Ivanka Trump wasn’t just in South Korea to throw shade at snowboarders. The president’s daughter also “briefed” the president of South Korea on plans for sanctions against North Korea.

It’s significant on many different levels,” says Lu. “We are left now with the wholly unqualified presidential daughter providing a briefing to the president of one of our major allies about economic sanctions. So one of two things happened. Either she got access to classified information in order to do the briefing, which would be improper, or she simply gave President Moon a briefing that he probably could have read about in a newspaper, and that’s embarrassing.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/ivanka-trump-either-classified-info-embarrassed-korean-president-msnbc-analyst/

[ehrnst]

2. I think that the embarassment comes with her lack of having any knowledge of the topic

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that's classified, and being considered the best candidate to meet with them.

[whathehell]

4. Her father embarrasses himself (and the nation) every day

What else is new?

[pnwmom]

20. But doesn't she have an interim clearance, like Jared? So why is anyone

assuming she hadn't seen classified information?

[WhiteTara]

31. Remember when a family member fully qualified

on the subject was the wife a president and the republicons excoriated her.

This woman can't even multiply...saw a Howard Stern segment...has NO security clearance and no expertise in the subject. But she does have botox access and sports a perfectly airbrushed face.

[sheshe2]

37. Harsh but True, WhiteTara.

[shanny]

5. I find it embarrassing that that twit

has any role representing our country, at all.

[Old Vet]

23. Yup, What in her background gives her the right to represent the US?

[hatrack]

6. Everything about this is embarassing . . .

A clueless little girl, who's floated through life on a golden raft of Daddy's Money, is "negotiating" with a foreign power.

Without experience, without training, without education, without anything but Lucky Sperm Club membership, she's been dispatched to ooze her breathy clueless smarm to the leaders of an important ally and a major industrial nation - people who take their responsibilities seriously, and who know what they're talking about.

If this is beyond your understanding, well, it sucks to be you.

[HipChick]

11. Agree...they probabely ran circles around Kremlin Barbie..

[smirkymonkey]

36. It's more than embarrassing, it's preposterous.

Who in their right mind gave the go-ahead for this brainless bimbo to go negotiate with a key ally regarding the highly volatile situation with effing North Korea! FFS, not only is she not qualified, she is an absolute joke! I realize that we currently have no ambassador to South Korea, but at least send someone who has some diplomatic experience! I feel like we are living in the fucking Twilight Zone!

[SergeStorms]

41. "Lucky Sperm Club"?

I don't know about that. Even with his supposed wealth, I wouldn't want Trump for a father under any circumstances. I'd rather have a poor, honest man for a father than a self-centered, lying piece of crap like Trump. Many might call her a member of the "Lucky Sperm Club", but I refuse to be counted among that number.

[FSogol]

7. WTF? Everything is embarrassing about Little Trumpina having a role in our govt.

Korea is laughing at us.

[FSogol]

22. Сегодня у меня проблемы, товарищ?

You want a link to my opinion?

[Iggo]

25. .

[FSogol]

26. Whoops, someone trolled poorly!

[Iggo]

27. LOL...one of the rare times I'm there to see the axe fall.

And the DU version of whack-a-mole continues.

[FSogol]

30. He's the guy that was crowing that Trumpy increased his take home pay. Must remember

to buy the next round for MIRT.

[NewJeffCT]

12. She was not approved by the Senate

to say the least, so should not be discussing politics with another country's political leadership as a representative of the country.

If she had access to classified documents, it's another security breach by this White House.

[pnwmom]

21. Haven't they said she has interim clearance? Not that I think she SHOULD,

but I think I heard she did.

[flibbitygiblets]

24. I heard that too. Also, the president can

"clear" anyone he wants, so it's a technically moot point. The fact that she can't GET a regular, permanent clearance is the point. A point that congress should be hollering about, except IOIYAR naturally.

[pandr32]

29. Interim clearance because she can't clear the comprehensive background check

She and her husband are basically government security risks due to all the ties to foreign investors and neither should be given interim clearance--it boggles the mind, but then what do you do when the usurper POTUS appoints them to upper roles in his administration? They've both been operating on interim clearances for over a year now.

[OldHippieChick]

14. On the contrary. Everything about this is

embarrassing and not because MSNBC said so. She has no security clearance so she should not be handling any classified matters. If she acted as if she had access to classified info in approaching the President of S. Korea she embarrasses herself as well as all of us. What part of this do you not understand?

[OldHippieChick]

17. I have no idea. You are the one bringing this

to our attention, not me. It really doesn't matter what their conversation was if she was there under false pretenses.

[babylonsister]

18. Sanctions...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-briefed-south-korea-191659963.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

Ivanka Trump Briefed South Korea President On North Korea Sanctions Despite Reportedly Lacking Permanent Security Clearance

[stonecutter357]

3. K&R

[enough]

8. Oh well, we live in a monarchy now, so what's the problem?

[Javaman]

10. a little from column A and a little from column b, what she said was...

"start building fallout shelters".

[TNNurse]

16. If we had an ambassador there, we might know more.

[progressoid]

19. Meanwhile on Fox newz they are talking about how mean that Olympic athlete was to Ivanka on Twitter.

[Funtatlaguy]

28. Substitute the name Chelsea Clinton for

Ivanka Trump.
Imagine how right wing heads would have exploded.
But, now with Trump, only crickets.
Incredible.

[dchill]

32. All embarrassment rests on the GOP.

They have enabled this world-threatening crap show to an ever-increasing degree to the point of traitorous collaboration. Embarrassment is the least of the penalties that karma owes them.

[Deb]

33. On the bright side, who can follow her

as she speaks eloquently in practiced whispers of monotones? She's Charlie Brown's teacher on the top shelf in any language.

[Wounded Bear]

34. Princess Ivanka, wed to Crown Prince Jared...

[Hekate]

42. Daddy is the Mad King, so she's the Crown Princess (heir apparent) & Jared is Prince Consort...

...because he married her. Prince Beavis and Prince Butthead don't seem to have much standing.

There, all explained.

What a disgusting family of grifters.

[Wounded Bear]

43. I bow to your superior knowledge of Royal titles...

there was a time when that didn't matter to us Americans.

[Hekate]

44. Chris Matthews keeps calling them The Romanovs, possibly out of a subconscious hope ...

...that they will meet a similar fate, but I contend the actual Romanovs had a great deal more class in their upper-class ruling-class ways (altho horrid enough) than the parvenu nouveau riche crass and classless Trumps.

[karynnj]

35. It's not Ivanka, its her dad's inability to put together a competent administration

His choices as reflect how people acted towards him in the past. Then consider that Tillerson, with no background in either government or diplomacy, has taken on as his top task cutting the State Department. I know that there are companies where new CEOs call in "experts" to downsize the company. I can't think of any former businessman doing the same thing to a major government department. This ignores that government has extremely different goals than a business - they are not driven by short term shareholder gain.

If the US had a South Korean ambassador, he or she would have communicated that information. Without one, normally there would be some deputy State Department person with that regional responsibility that could be sent. The Secretary himself could be sent. There were times where important work was done by WH people - including people like Susan Rice, McDonough, Rhodes etc - but they ALL had clearances and most had very serious foreign policy backgrounds or had years where they were in the room when national security decisions were made.

With Ivanka, she has no clearance and she might have many of the same problems that Kushner has. In addition to being the wife of Kushner, her own efforts include Trump properties in Panama where it seems that the Trump labeled building was used for money laundering and partners included criminals ( https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/panama-tower-carries-trump-s-name-ties-organized-crime-n821706 ) and the Azerbaijan hotel where they partnered with the Revolutionary Guard of Iran ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal ) Either of these two would seem to raise HUGE security questions.

In addition, nothing in her background suggests that she has the diplomatic skills or the knowledge of the tricky foreign policy involved in North Korea. It is 100% clear that her ONLY credential is being Trump's daughter. This is enough for her to represent the US at the Olympics -- as many First Ladies have. It is pretty much ceremonial and it seems she handled it better than the VP did.

[ehrnst]

39. Ivanka is a grownup with aspirations to the Oval Office.

Yes, I think we can hold her accountable for her own actions.

[karynnj]

40. I certainly am NOT excusing her in any way - I am accusing her of things that should be why

she can not get a clearance and/or why she could be more likely to do jail time than run for office!

[onecent]

45. OH ho ho ho ho ha ha ha.... THIS SHE WILL NEVER GET, NO MATTER

WHO SHE BATS HER EYELASHES OR HER BOOB JOB......

still laughing.........................

[Cha]

38. Thank you, ehrnst.