Ivanka Gets Backlash After Announcement About Leaving WH

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President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump has proven one of the longest fixtures of her father’s administration. While others from the campaign days have been sometimes quite unceremoniously kicked to the curb, she and her husband and fellow presidential adviser Jared Kushner have stayed. It’s not like either of them had any government or public policy experience before their time in D.C., but they’ve stuck around anyway. Now, Ivanka Trump is leaving the door open to leaving government if her father wins the second term that he’ll be jockeying for in the 2020 elections.

It’s unclear whether that will be relevant, considering Trump still loses in the vast majority of polls pitting him against leading Democratic presidential primary candidate Joe Biden. Still, she explained that she wants to do what’s best for her family.

She said that “the day I walk into the West Wing and I don’t feel a shiver up my spine is the day I’ve been here too long.” As she explained to Face The Nation‘s Margaret Brennan:

‘I am driven first and foremost by my kids and their happiness. That’s always going to be my top priority. My decisions will always be flexible enough to ensure that their needs are being considered first and foremostSo they will really drive that answer for me. I think for me, I came down here — it’s about the impact. It’s about being able to deliver for the forgotten men and women that I met over the course of two years as I campaigned around this country. And over the last two and a half years as I’ve traveled to almost every state in this nation. It’s about providing pathways to opportunity.’

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It’s striking for her to still be stuck on the same campaign jargon that her father’s team first ran with years ago at this point. She went on to tout “tax reform,” “deregulation,” and other steps the Trump team has taken that have supposedly created a “pro-growth environment,” but it’s clear how much hot air is really driving the Trump team’s claims of success. President Trump has repeatedly made absolutely outrageous claims about the number of jobs that Ivanka has somehow personally created. Just this month, he claimed she’d created a full 14 million jobs, but in the entire time that Trump has been in office, the entire economy has created less than half that many.

Ivanka herself has blatantly lied about the nature of what she and her father’s team have accomplished too. About a year ago, she claimed that a workforce policy board she worked on was “up to 6.3 million new jobs” — but the board was providing workforce development and training opportunities, not jobs.

Still, that’s not stopping the Trump team anytime soon. During her Face The Nation, interview, she giddily exclaimed that “we’ve done so much, but it’s not enough yet.” In reality, policies on the horizon for the Trump team include continued pursuit of their southern border wall and other draconian steps.