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Women
Should Be Insulted by Ivanka's New Role
Amanda Carpenter - Cosmopolitan
Ivanka Trump sits with foreign dignitaries
during important meetings, is setting up an office in
the White House, is being issued government communications devices, and is
seeking national security clearance. What’s she doing exactly? Nobody knows.
What qualifies her? Apparently, being the president’s daughter.
There’s a
word for this: nepotism. And it makes everything Ivanka has done up to this
point to position herself as an example for working women into a farce. By
taking this role, Ivanka is taking away a life-changing opportunity from
another woman, who undoubtedly would have more expertise than the first
daughter.
Trump’s
spinners will argue the arrangement is not a violation of federal nepotism laws
because Ivanka is not being given a salary or title - a stunning symbol of
privilege in itself. Ivanka’s too wealthy to need the salary and too well-known
to need a title, a slap in the face to women who have toiled for years, for
little pay, hoping to work up the ladder and obtain a White House job one day.
If Ivanka
Trump were not the Trump’s daughter, would she be given a White House
office to perform a job that has no description? Of course not. Don’t believe
me? Just try calling the White House and asking if you can have some gratis
work space at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., one of the most coveted real estate
properties on the planet.
More worrisome, Ivanka’s White House entrance shows
how willing the Trump White House is to flout laws that apply to everyone else.
With the appointment of Jared Kushner,
Ivanka’s husband, as a senior adviser, the White House stated it did not
believe federal nepotism laws should apply
to the White House. The laws, they said, were only meant for agency
appointments. When the president has been questioned about the conflicts of
interest his businesses pose to his duties as president, Trump has said, “I can't have a conflict of interest.” The double standards are dubious.
Now Ivanka
wants us to believe, as she said in a statement, that she will “voluntarily
follow all ethics laws placed on government employees.” That statement,
however, only reinforces the central problem. Ethics laws are not voluntary for
other government employees; compliance is required. Plus, she’s already shown
she doesn’t understand the rules by using a 60
Minutes appearance with Trump to promote her jewelry line.
The next time this happens, will she “volunteer” to face punishment, which,
depending on the violation, could even include jail time? That’s not a hard
question to answer.
But answers we need. And since Ivanka is taking
advantage of taxpayer-funded resources, taxpayers have every right to ask to
know what Ivanka is doing with them. Ivanka’s attorney told Politico she will serve
as her father’s “eyes and ears,” a job description so vague, not to mention
creepy, that it only functions to give the billionaire heiress cover to do
whatever she, or her father, wants.
In the
past, Ivanka, to a large degree, was given leeway because it was widely
believed her new Washington role would mainly take place outside official
government channels. That changed with her decision to claim White House office
space and a national security clearance. We need the details. Ivanka has said
she doesn’t want to be thought of as
first lady, but she should know she’s giving off the
air of an entitled royal princess.
Ivanka
will continue to pretend she’s a model for working women, applauding herself
for having a “seat at the table” with foreign dignitaries, as she did in this Instagram photo.
Just remember she’s only sitting in that seat because her daddy let her. That’s
not the case for the overwhelming majority of working women in America and we
shouldn’t celebrate anyone for whom that is.
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