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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 06:00 PM Jul 2017

Unelected, unqualified

By Kristine Phillips
July 8 at 2:21 PM

Ivanka Trump .. was spotted sitting in her father's seat Saturday at a working session on “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health” ...

... government ministers are typically the ones called to stand in for heads of state at such sessions ...

... her presence at a November meeting between her father, then president-elect, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe .. raised questions about .. conflicts of interest ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/08/unelected-unqualified-the-internets-reaction-to-ivanka-trump-taking-her-dads-seat-at-g-20/?utm_term=.8fa688280631

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Unelected, unqualified (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
Reports say she sat there like a bump on a log, only prettier Warpy Jul 2017 #1
She was sent as a shiny object for media & people to focus on rather than CYBER partnership w/Vlad!! MedusaX Jul 2017 #2

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
1. Reports say she sat there like a bump on a log, only prettier
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 06:21 PM
Jul 2017

This unelected, unappointed, unapproved, and supremely unqualified woman might ultimately be the flash point around which her daddy gets evicted from an office he has absolutely no intention of carrying out properly.

I have no idea why Daddy's Little Girl was sent in to sit in his chair. I do know there were likely more than a few people in his entourage who were much more qualified and entitled to do so were he indisposed.

Eventually the humiliation of being pushed out of the way in favor of Ivanka might just get someone to challenge this bullshit. That she was shoved into a chair she had no right to be in and no idea how to fill was a slap in the face to every other attendee.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
2. She was sent as a shiny object for media & people to focus on rather than CYBER partnership w/Vlad!!
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 07:10 PM
Jul 2017

And rather than the SECRECY of the meeting ...
and the lame justification that there was not room for more than a total of 6 people?

WTF was it a broom closet? Is this the only place available for a full blown bilateral meeting?

Why was Sec of State present but not
McMasters /National Security or Sr Advisor on all things Russia ????

Oh look Ivanka....

{Sorry squirrels... you've been replaced as the go-to distraction}

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