Here’s an example: Say I’m a woman on trial for tax evasion. Say that, unbeknownst to my husband, he is not the father of “our” children. A prosecutor knows my secret and tries to get me to lie about it in court so she can use my lie to impugn my credibility: that is a perjury trap.
I’m pretty sure you’d agree that the prosecutor is out of line; and the Justice Department agrees as well.
Nonsense.
The right wing noise machine complains about perjury trap… as in “I didn’t have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
Daddy! Mr. Nadler is pointing at me. Make him stop.
just like that attention-grabbing hussy Amy Carter, you just can’t help people being envious of your closeness to power, it makes you corrupt
(stage direction: Ivanka brings out her wallet)
Ivanka gets kid gloves treatment because she is the one that maintains what brief moments of lucidity Donald can maintain. I’ve long believed she listens in on all his phone calls, is on speaker phone during meetings, is just outside the door at all times as her sole purpose is to step in when Donald starts going off the rails (not in his usual way, but when his meds degrade and he loses control). The flip side is she’s probably the one person that knows everything, but when a literal crazy person is running the country, disrupting their bubble of normalcy can cause problems too big too tackle and now that all but the worst Trump sycophants are left to run the various parts of our gov’t, popping that bubble without a plan is dangerous. All that said, I hope she’s in prison within two years time.
I would be afraid to hear her testify for fear of finding out how vacuous and ignorant she really is
I think most of us already know.
Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In business, as in life, nothing is ever handed to you.” Ivanka quickly adds caveats. “Yes, I’ve had the great good fortune to be born into a life of wealth and privilege, with a name to match,” she writes. “Yes, I’ve had every opportunity, every advantage. And yes, I’ve chosen to build my career on a foundation built by my father and grandfather.” Still, she insists, she and her brothers didn’t attain their positions in their father’s company “by any kind of birthright or foregone conclusion.”
The cognitive dissonance on display here might prompt a reader who wishes to preserve her sanity to close the book immediately. But “The Trump Card” is instructive, if not as a manual for young women interested in “playing to win in work and life,” as the subtitle advertises, then as a telling portrait of the Trump-family ethos, an attitude that appears quite unkind even when presented by Ivanka, its best salesman, in the years preceding her father’s political rise.
More or less on a Sarah Palin level, just with more couth.
Daddy never sent her to acting school …
It’s not her fault —
As much as I feel that Ivanka, the adult, is deserving of disrespect, I do believe that as a little girl she was molested by her father. I think it is a mistake to dilute that appalling reality.
She lied on TeeVee that Donnie knew nothing about Jared’s clearance.
Now we’re gonna have John Kelly’s memos and testimony to the fact that Donnie did it. Unless John chooses to lie. I doubt he’ll risk prison for Trump, though.
Yes, we should definitely all give up right now. Woe. O Woe.
Aw, c’mon, add her to the list. I really wanna call her Subpoena Barbie.
I keep wondering why Stormy Daniels isn’t being asked to testify. She has first hand knowledge of the campaign violation which you would think might be important. Why investigate the cover-up of the crime but not add the basis for the crime in the public record? If nothing else, it would be hilarious watching the Republicans questioning her while trying not to bring attention to the fact that their buddy Donnie had sex with her. Jim Jordan would have his own land mine to avoid while talking about the cover up of sexual encounters.