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    Ivanka Trump to Become Official White House Employee

    Ivanka Trump to Become Official White House Employee

    Bloomberg - 22 minutes ago



    Ivanka Trump to Join White House Officially After Ethics Stir


    by Ben Brody
    , Lindsey Rupp
    , and Bill Allison
    March 29, 2017, 2:10 PM PDT



    • First daughter says she will comply with all ethics rules
    • Decision follows criticism from ethics specialists, lawmakers


    Ivanka Trump said she will become an official unpaid federal employee after Democratic lawmakers said her unspecified role advising her father, President Donald Trump, raised questions about how she’d avoid conflicts-of-interests.


    “I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the President in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees,” Ivanka Trump said in a statement Wednesday.

    “Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House Counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role.”


    Her statement came just hours after Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper released a letter to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, asking whether the White House sought the agency’s guidance on the first daughter’s position. The senators also asked what the consequences would be if Ivanka Trump violated rules that apply to regular full-time employees and what financial disclosures she would be required to make.


    The White House praised the move.


    “We are pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this step in her unprecedented role as First Daughter and in support of the President,” the White House said in a statement Wednesday.

    “Ivanka’s service as an unpaid employee furthers our commitment to ethics, transparency, and compliance and affords her increased opportunities to lead initiatives driving real policy benefits for the American public that would not have been available to her previously.”


    Ethics Provisions


    Federal employees have to abide by stringent ethics provisions that can force them to divest assets and avoid participation in some decisions. “Special Government Employees,” which can include unpaid advisers who serve in government 130 days a year or fewer, face a lower standard. Still, SGEs are subject to conflict-of-interest statutes and in some circumstances can be required to divest assets.
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    Ivanka Trump announced in January that she was handing day-to-day management of her brand to top lieutenant Abigail Klem. A closely held company licenses her name to vendors that make goods, including a $100 million apparel line made by G-III Apparel Group, as well as shoes and accessories. She has transferred the company’s assets to a new trust overseen by relatives of her husband, Jared Kushner, but she has retained ownership and receives payouts.

    Phone calls to a spokeswoman for Ivanka Trump requesting comment on whether she intends to divest from her company weren’t immediately returned.

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    Well, I guess that's good. I just hope she and the other members of the Trump family are not harmed any more by their service to our country. I've just never heard of having to divest of your assets to work for the government as an employee. Have other employees divested of their personal wealth to work for the government as an employee? I'm not speaking about members of the Cabinet, but other employees. I've never heard of such a thing myself.
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    President Trump needs to have people around him he can trust and his daughter is probably top of that list. Reminds me of when JFK had his brother Bobby at his side. Sometimes a family member can help in numerous ways.
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    I've never heard of anyone divesting themselves before serving.

    Maybe 'putting it in a blind trust', which is really kinda silly.

    Now why not make her an unpaid employee. If it were my father in the WH, he would get my advise anyway - asked for or not/official or not.

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    Ivanka Trump’s role as adviser viewed with scorn, derision by left


    Having first daughter Ivanka Trump in the White House shepherding policy to empower women in the workplace or advising her father, as she did throughout the campaign, has hit a nerve with both members of the left and the general ...

    By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 30, 2017

    Ivanka Trump is learning that no matter what she does in Washington, the left will view her with scorn and derision.

    After taking a non-paying White House job to end ethics concerns about her serving as an unofficial adviser to President Trump, she was hit with allegations of nepotism and further criticism that she’s unqualified to have her father’s ear on policy.

    Sure, other presidents have had family members work in their administration. President Kennedy hired his brother Bobby for attorney general. President Clinton tapped his wife Hillary to lead a health care reform task force.

    But having Ivanka in the White House shepherding policy to empower women in the workplace or advising her father, as she did throughout the campaign, hit a nerve.

    “There’s a reason anti-nepotism laws went into effect after Bobby Kennedy served in his brother’s administration: we want to ensure that White House employees, including the president, serve the American people — and not collude to profit off them,” said Democratic strategist Christy Setzer. “It’s hard to know whether the Trump family cares more about whether the health care bill succeeds or whether their new hotel and Ivanka’s shoe line does. That’s a big problem.”

    Ms. Trump has been criticized every step of the way, for getting an office in West Wing, for getting security clearing, for meeting foreign dignitaries with the president.

    “I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees,” Ivanka Trump said in a statement announcing her new job title.

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware reacted by sending a letter to the Office of Government Ethics demanding more scrutiny because of the “confusion” surrounding Ms. Trump’s role.

    “We write today to request information about the ethics rules that President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, will be required to comply with, or has indicated she will voluntarily comply with, in her role as an advisor to the President,” the two Democrats wrote to OGE Director Walter Shaub.

    One of the most rabid attacks came earlier in the week from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who compared Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser to the president, to Saddam Hussein’s bloodthirsty sons, Uday and Qusay.

    “I kid about everything, but Uday and Qusay working for Saddam Hussein — you couldn’t go to a restaurant and have eye contact with those guys without getting killed,” Mr. Matthews said on his show. “These people are really powerful. Imagine getting into a fight in the office with Jared or Ivanka. They have enormous power, and they’re always gonna be there.”
    Ms. Trump also has suffered sharp attacks from the general public.

    During the transition, Ms. Trump, traveling with her children, was accosted on a JetBlue flight by a passenger who proclaimed: “Your father is ruining our country. Why is she on our flight?”

    The man, Hunter College professor Matthew Lasner, was removed form the plane before takeoff.

    When she marked the first birthday of her son Monday by tweeting a photo of herself holding the newborn last year, she was subjected to a flurry of attacks.

    Other women in politics have suffered attacks, such as Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who was labeled a rube despite being governor of Alaska.

    “With Ivanka Trump, it’s a different situation altogether. She has no policy experience, and it’s hard to imagine any scenario under which a Republican president other than Donald Trump would appoint her to such a role,” said Jennifer Lawless, director of American University’s Women & Politics Institute.

    Ms. Trump was not being treated unfairly, at least in the press, Ms. Lawless said. Her brothers, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, likely would get the same treatment — if not worse, she said.

    “They would be taken less seriously. Ivanka Trump at least spoke about policy on the campaign trail, whereas they did not; and Ivanka Trump is widely regarded as poised, reasonable, and articulate — far more so, it seems to me, than either of her brothers,” Ms. Lawless said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    President Trump needs to have people around him he can trust and his daughter is probably top of that list. Reminds me of when JFK had his brother Bobby at his side. Sometimes a family member can help in numerous ways.
    I guess that depends. I'm not so sure Billy Carter would have been much of a help to Jimmy Carter. Of course Billy would have been a good provider for refreshments.




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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    I guess that depends. I'm not so sure Billy Carter would have been much of a help to Jimmy Carter. Of course Billy would have been a good provider for refreshments.



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