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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 10:40 AM Sep 2017

Ivanka Trump: Many have 'unrealistic expectations' of my influence with father

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 09/14/17 10:34 AM EDT

Ivanka Trump says her liberal critics have "unrealistic expectations" of her ability to influence President Trump's agenda.

"Some people have created unrealistic expectations of what they expect from me,” she wrote in an email to the Financial Times.

“That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him," she continued. "It’s not going to happen. To those critics, shy of turning my father into a liberal, I’d be a failure to them.”

Some Democrats have looked to the president's eldest daughter to moderate his policies. But her moderating role has been called into question by some recently, who point to Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, among other decisions, as evidence that Ivanka has ultimately been ineffective.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/350637-ivanka-trump-many-have-unrealistic-expectations-of-my-influence-with

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Ivanka Trump: Many have 'unrealistic expectations' of my influence with father (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Trump's "core values"???? TreasonousBastard Sep 2017 #1
Oh, he has core values. Girard442 Sep 2017 #3
Ivanka Trump is wrong again SharonClark Sep 2017 #2
No, Ivanka. We have no expectations of you at all. MineralMan Sep 2017 #4
Please buy my stuff! Don't hold him against my brand! Solly Mack Sep 2017 #5

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
2. Ivanka Trump is wrong again
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 10:47 AM
Sep 2017

“That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him,"

The American People voted for Hillary. The American People do not support Trump's agenda.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
4. No, Ivanka. We have no expectations of you at all.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 10:51 AM
Sep 2017

We know you are just a side show. We don't care. Please go away now.

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)
5. Please buy my stuff! Don't hold him against my brand!
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 11:19 AM
Sep 2017

That's what I'm hearing anyway.

She's her father's daughter in all ways, so why would anyone expect anything different from her? Nah. That was a brand pitch and nothing more.

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