State Dept. deletes retweet promoting Ivanka Trumps book

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

State Dept. deletes retweet promoting Ivanka Trump’s book

By CONOR FINNEGAN - May 4, 2017, 7:56 PM ET

Less than two weeks after a firestorm over a controversial blog post, the State Department found itself in hot water again on Thursday for publishing material that critics say promotes Trump family business interests.

The Twitter account for the department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues retweeted a post by White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump in which she touts her new book.

Link to tweet

Her book -- “Women Who Work” -- draws its name from a marketing campaign she began for her eponymous fashion brand.

Shortly after the retweet was noticed by journalists, the department took it down.

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[NunnesBuznat]

1. It's sad how the girl on the left gets the pro photographers and the one on the right got someone

to snap a picture with their iPhone

[procon]

2. Why can't she set up a card table to hawk her goods like every other grifter?

Hell, she's got access to a limo and driver, she could peddle her books out of the trunk on any corner.

[Freethinker65]

3. TBH promotion of the Trump brand is a State Department top priority now

Rex pretty much confirmed he is not very concerned about promoting American values, but is concerned about making money as the Secretary of State.