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"We have family clan experiences in autocracies, Seibel told Politico. Ivanka Trump isnt elected, she is a daughter. She didnt say anything in the elections when he was saying nasty things about women and migrants. She is his voice, but somehow she has a nicer face.
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On Tuesday, Ivanka was in Berlin to represent the United States in a panel at the W20 Summit, an international convention dedicated to the economic empowerment of women. The moderator of Ivankas W20 panel pulled no punches, asking her right away to clarify her White House role.
Whom are you representing? the moderator continued, as the audience burst out in laughter. Your father as the president of the United States, the American people, or your business?
Ivanka replied by saying certainly not the latter.
I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well as it is quite new to me, she continued. As an entrepreneur and an individual prior to this in the private sector, I cared very much about empowering women in the workplace. And the opportunity to have an elevated platform, to be able to sit here on this stage and thank you chancellor for your very gracious invitation I am humbled to be here with so many formidable leaders, to engage in dialogue, to learn, to bring the advice, the knowledge back to the United States, back to both my father, and the president, and hopefully that will bring about incremental positive change, and that is my goal.
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samnsara
(17,650 posts)....in a Children of the Corn kinda way.
Bettie
(16,130 posts)and people (in person type people) keep saying, "No, she's smart and decent".
No. She. Isn't.
She's a grifter just like her father. We can never forget that.
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)Well, I dont like the intonation of that, which, you know, assumes that, I think, you know, I dont like the word accomplice, because, you know, in this context, I dont know that thats productive, she said.
Yeah. Complete.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)sentences more than he who shall not be named.
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)But not one of the human characters...
Skittles
(153,212 posts)IcyPeas
(21,910 posts)are there any facts to back that up?
this quote from her book will always be there:
Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.