Of Course Donald Trump's Ridiculous Bible Photo OP was Ivanka's Idea

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Earlier this year, we noted that while the old saying goes, “behind every great man is a great woman,” the more appropriate adage for the Trump era would be, “behind every presidential fuckup is a first daughter and son-in-law who have no idea what they’re doing but nevertheless think they should be advising the leader of the free world.” Obviously, Donald Trump was (and remains!) extremely capable of destroying the country on his own, but as senior advisers, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner frequently helped things along. From not-a-doctor Kushner playing a key role in the government’s pandemic response—a role that reportedly included telling people early in the pandemic that the virus wasn’t a “health reality”—to Princess Purses reportedly demanding her dad deliver an address to the nation on a moment’s notice, which resulted in him telling millions of people, “The risk [of this virus] is very, very low,” wherever there was a screwup, those two could be found. And now, thanks to a new book from someone very familiar with the matter, we know that Ivanka was responsible for one of the most ridiculous, sacrilegious moments of Trump’s time in office.

According to the Religious News Service, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s book offers a “detailed account” of the 45th president’s “infamous Bible photo op at St. John’s Church in June 2020,” which, it turns out, was reportedly Ivanka’s idea. For those who need a refresher, in June 2020, at the height of racial-justice protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Trump, concerned about media coverage of his retreat to a White House bunker, had peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could make his way to the nearby St. John’s church. There, he held up a Bible and posed for photos while telling reporters, “we have a great country” and vowing he would “make it even greater, and it won’t take long.”

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One person who presumably was indeed proud of herself? The first daughter. Per RNS:

Ivanka Trump [had] received calls about the fire [that had been set in the basement of the church], according to Meadows. In response, she hatched a plan: She suggested the president “give his address in the Rose Garden as planned, and then lead a group of his closest aides and advisers over to St. John’s Church, where he would deliver a short message to the American people.” Ivanka’s goal, Meadows said, was to signal that “law and order would prevail” and “send a message to people of faith.”

“As I watched President Trump listening to his daughter, I could tell he loved the idea,” Meadows writes. Meadows also writes that Trump’s aides scrambled to find a Bible for the president to use on June 1, pulling ones from their offices and stacking them on a desk outside the Oval Office. Trump, he says, ultimately chose one of the Bibles less because of its appearance and more for “the way it felt in his hands.”

The former congressman writes that Ivanka kept the Bible in her purse until the group arrived at St. John’s. They had expected to enter the church, inspect the damage and possibly say a prayer, but opted for an outside photo shoot upon realizing the sanctuary was boarded up.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-bible-photo-op

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1. Notice not a word from Ivanka?

Is she keeping a very low profile because she knows daddy is guilty as hell?

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2. K&R