The event opened with the first daughter explaining her lack of vision as advisor in the White House.
“You are first daughter — German audience not familiar — what is your role — to whom are you represented? Your father, the American people, or your business,” asked Miriam Meckel, editor of German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
“Well, certainly not the latter, and I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me,” replied the daughter. “It has been a little under 100 days, but it is just been a remarkable, an incredible journey.”
But Ivanka still has no idea what her role should be, even after a hundred days. “So it’s very early for me. I’m listening, I’m learning, I’m defining the ways in which I think I’ll be able to have impact,” she added.
The audience hissed and booed during a discussion on paid leave when she began describing her father as an advocate for women.
During an interview with Today, Ivanka suggested that “Syrian refugees” should be allowed into the US, a complete reversal of her father’s policy to keep them out.
The first daughter also visited Berlin’s Holocaust memorial during her first international trip as an official adviser to her father as he condemned Holocaust deniers and anti-Semitism while delivering remarks at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance event this week. Ivanka converted to Judaism herself ahead of her 2009 marriage to Jared Kushner. Her husband is a senior adviser to the president.
The warning signs that Kushner was fronting for the neo-conservatives was always present. His media company, Observer Media, which publishes the weekly on-line New York Observer, prominently features several neo-conservative writers.
Arch-neocon Paul Wolfowitz is now back in the public debate, on the side of President Trump. The warmongering Wolfowitz told the Wall Street Journal that Trump should follow up his bombing strike in Syria with yet more aggression, privately emailing with Trump Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security advisor HR McMaster, both longtime contacts since his Bush days.
In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel in 2016, when asked if Donald Trump is a security risk, Wolfowitz said, “Yes he is… He says he admires Putin, that Saddam Hussein was killing terrorists, that the Chinese were impressive because they were tough on Tienanmen Square. That is pretty disturbing.”
Now Wolfowitz says he is happy that Trump will pursue a US strategy of more “engagement” in the Middle East. The Iraq war architect and others only weeks ago still openly proclaimed Trump and his family unfit for the presidency.
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