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UTUSN

(70,851 posts)
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 09:33 PM Mar 2017

With Jared & non-fed/employee Ivanka on spring break in Aspen, who's minding the Twitler account?!1

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-lives-washington-works-131050170.html
[font size=5]Ivanka Trump Lives in Washington, Works at the White House, But isn't an Employee Subject to Federal Rules[/font]

.... (Ivanka) Trump, who has a security clearance, is not a White House employee, which means she isn't subject to certain transparency and ethical provisions. And she doesn't have to worry about a law prohibiting conflicts of interest, which could affect her family's vast business empire. Her husband, Jared Kushner, is also a senior adviser to the president, but he is a White House employee.

“While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president, I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,” Trump, 35, has said in a statement.

But all of this doesn't sit well with government watchdogs, who are urging President Donald Trump to officially hire his daughter. They wrote a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn Friday that claims Ivanka Trump's position "creates a middle space that does not exist,” The Associated Press reported. The letter signed by two former White House lawyers states: “On the one hand, her position will provide her with the privileges and opportunities for service that attach to being a White House employee. On the other hand, she remains the owner of a private business who is free from the ethics and conflicts rules that apply to all White House employees.” ....


http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/politics/jared-kushner-aspen-ski-trip-obamacare/index.html

[font size=5]Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered[/font]

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With Jared & non-fed/employee Ivanka on spring break in Aspen, who's minding the Twitler account?!1 (Original Post) UTUSN Mar 2017 OP
Only Ivanka knows the new password FakeNoose Mar 2017 #1
that's what I was wondering, could have some epic tweets tonight. grantcart Mar 2017 #2
Tomorrow morning should be epic. Loki Liesmith Mar 2017 #3
I thought I read somewhere Control-Z Mar 2017 #4
Yes, but they've been gone all week & Twitler has been uncharacteristically controlled UTUSN Mar 2017 #5

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
4. I thought I read somewhere
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 09:56 PM
Mar 2017

that he got back earlier tonight. It might have been in the second article you named.

"Trump unhappy Jared Kushner took a powder on the ski slopes as health care bill floundered"

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