Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump Meet With Al Gore
Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump Meet With Al Gore
The president-elect’s oldest daughter reportedly hopes to make climate change a key issue in the coming administration.
By Curt Mills | Staff Writer Dec. 5, 2016, at 3:03 p.m.
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Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, met with Al Gore, the former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee, on Monday in New York City.
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"I had a lengthy and very productive session with the President-elect," Gore said after the meeting. "It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the President-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I'm just going to leave it at that."
Gore was originally scheduled to meet only with Ivanka Trump at Trump Tower. It is unclear how his meeting with the president-elect came about.
Gore is a long-time environmentalist, both from his time as senator and vice president, and perhaps even more so, since his 2000 election defeat. His climate change activism won him and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
CNN reported Monday that Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are moving to Washington. Anti-nepotism laws may prevent both from assuming official roles in the administration, but both are expected to take influential unofficial roles.
Ivanka Trump and her husband are believed to be the least conservative members of the Trump family. She has been pitched as a possible climate czar. It's been speculated she has more moderate views on climate change than her father. The president-elect's previous statements on climate change -- including remarking that climate change was a Chinese hoax (which he later denied saying) -- are controversial.
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