Positive news like this should help counter some of the effects of such reckless social media memes:
Ivanka Trump Says She Got Her Moral Compass From Donald in Appeal to Rich Donors
By Jessica Kwong On 9/13/19 at
At a recent Trump campaign fundraiser, first daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump appealed to wealthy donors by sharing that she got her moral compass from her father, President Donald Trump.
She made her confession, something that could be pleasing for the president's supporters to hear, at a fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in mid-August when asked to reveal what personality traits she got from her parents.
The first daughter quickly replied that her mother, Ivana Trump, showed her how to be a successful and powerful woman. Ivanka Trump then said her father gave passed to her his moral compass, two attendees at the fundraiser with about 120 donors told Politico in a report published Friday.
It wasn't the first time that Ivanka Trump has credited her father for her moral compass. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, she said, "my father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass."
https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trum...donors-1459194
There are still critical reports coming out about Trump's top donor but there is better balance now with positive news also.
‘NYT’ says Netanyahu influences White House because he can ‘sway US public opinion’ (and never mentions Adelsons)
Media Analysis Philip Weiss on September 5, 2019 8 Comments
Donald Trump giving Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Feb. 2019. AP shot.
This is a marvel. The New York Times Magazine published a long article about Benjamin Netanyahu’s unsuccessful effort to get Obama to attack Iran and successful effort to get Trump to abandon the Iran deal, and authors explain Netanyahu’s outsize influence on the White House by saying that he has the ability to “sway public opinion” in the U.S. Netanyahu told them as much.American public opinion was the key, and the ability to shape it in some ways cut to the very heart of Netanyahu’s political persona. “In the last 30 years, I appeared innumerable times in the American media and met thousands of American leaders,” he says. “I developed a certain ability to influence public opinion, and that is the most important thing: the ability to sway public opinion in the United States against the regime in Iran.”
This argument might be a bit more persuasive if in the course of 7,000 or 8,000 words the Times had mentioned Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s biggest donor and Netanyahu’s backer too, who called on Obama to nuke Iran. John Bolton is a major figure in the article, but Bolton only got access to Trump by calling him from Adelson’s office in Vegas (as Politico reported).
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson have given $175 million or more to Republican Party coffers and is “driving” Trump’s Middle East policy, says the Guardian. Adelson has “more influence” than the Secretary of State, says an NYT columnist. Adelson speaks of himself as a “citizen” of Israel. Follow the money, right? The Adelsons are never mentioned.
Netanyahu’s influence is stated as a given, like oxygen. He even has the ability to “use our politics” to his advantage, say, during the 2012 election. How did the leader of a pint-size nation acquire that Svengali ability? There is no mention of the Israel lobby. AIPAC, the leading lobby group, is mentioned only in passing, a place where leaders give speeches.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/netan...nces-adelsons/
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