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“Ivanka Trump Is A Senior Adviser To The President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions” - my latest for ⁦@theintercept⁩ on the awful CBS Face The Nation softball interview with ⁦@IvankaTrump⁩ & 12 tougher questions she should have been asked: theintercept.com/2019/12/30/iva…

@theintercept @IvankaTrump So here is a #thread with my 12 better/tougher questions for Ivanka Trump that @FaceTheNation and Margaret Brennan should have asked, on the topics of impeachment/paid leave/her own role at the White House
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 1. You have criticized House Democrats for calling witnesses who “didn’t have firsthand knowledge” of the issues under investigation. So why didn’t your father allow Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, to testify in the House?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 2. Do you believe it is appropriate for U.S. political leaders to call on foreign governments to dig up dirt on the children of their opponents? Would you be OK with the Democratic presidential candidate...calling on, say, the Iranians to investigate you and your brothers?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 3. You mentioned your father’s “mood” at the rally in Michigan on the night of the House impeachment vote, but would you be willing to apologize on his behalf to Rep. Debbie Dingell for suggesting, at that rally, that her late husband, John Dingell, might be in hell?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 4. You said the president doesn’t “even feel like he was being impeached,” but what happened to that popular conservative adage: ‘Facts don’t care about your feelings?’”
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 5. Isn’t the truth that it was congressional Democrats who used your father’s “desire for a Space Force to extract funding for the new paid leave policy”?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 6. Do you think it is hypocritical that you are here today on this show to promote this new policy of paid parental leave for government workers while the contractor that designed your own... clothing line “does not offer workers a single day of paid maternity leave”?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 7. Your former chief marketing officer Marissa Kraxberger has written that she and her colleagues had to fight “long and hard to get [you] to finally agree to 8 weeks paid maternity leave.”
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 8. What do you say to at least 25 different women who have accused your father, the president, of sexual harassment and assault? What’s your response...to the accusation this past summer from the writer E. Jean Carroll that your father raped her?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 9. What do you think qualifies you to be a senior adviser to the president of the United States, and participate in talks with the leader of North Korea, given your background is in clothing and fashion?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 10. What do you think qualifies your husband to be a senior adviser to the president of the United States, and a Middle East peace negotiator, given his background is in real estate?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 11. In July 2018, you announced you were shutting down your clothing business to focus on your...r ole advising your father, so why were you still getting trademarks from the Chinese government in Nov 2018? And how are all these trademarks not a massive conflict of interest?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation 12. You told ABC News that your father had “no involvement” in the granting of controversial security clearances to you and your husband, and yet we have since learned that Trump personally pushed for you both to be given clearances...You weren’t telling the truth...were you?
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@theintercept @IvankaTrump @FaceTheNation Here are the concluding 2 paragraphs to my new @theintercept piece on the awful, softball, kid-glove interview with @IvankaTrump on CBS "Face The Nation" yesterday, recalling a horrific&honest Les Moonves quote on Trump and CBS and ratings:
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