Ivanka Trump’s ‘good cop’ routine is a sham
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According to Ivanka Trump in a recent interview with Axios, the issue of family separation “was a low point” during her tenure as assistant to and daughter of the President.
She discussed family separation in the past tense, as if it was over, further reinforcing her father’s message that he has ended family separation. That implication does not reflect reality, because family separation continues. Just this week we learned during a Senate hearing that hundreds of children remain separated from their parents.
Ivanka Trump’s intention in the interview was clear: try to quell the firestorms her father starts. Elsewhere in the interview, she also disputed his characterization of the media as the “enemy of the people.” But for words to have meaning and not just sound like what people want to hear, they need to be backed up by action. And on that point, Ivanka Trump fails the test, every time —
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