Clinton Takes Swipe At Trump’s ‘Half-Baked’ Maternity Leave Plan

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at University of North Carolina, in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Clinton returned to the campaign trail after a bout of pneumonia tha... Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at University of North Carolina, in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Clinton returned to the campaign trail after a bout of pneumonia that sidelined her for three days and revived questions about both Donald Trump's and her openness regarding their health. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Hillary Clinton took a shot at her opponent Donald Trump’s paid maternity leave plan in a Thursday speech in Greensboro, North Carolina, getting in an apparent swipe at his daughter Ivanka Trump’s testy interview with Cosmopolitan on that subject as well.

“We don’t need a president who apparently thinks only married people deserve paid leave and only mothers ever stay home with the kids,” Clinton said in her first public appearance since taking a few days off the trail while she recovered from a bout of pneumonia.

“We don’t need someone who rushes out a half-baked plan just weeks before an election after decades of ignoring or putting down working moms,” she added.

Clinton knocked her opponent for several of his economic policies, including paid family leave, seeming to take a swipe at Ivanka Trump’s Cosmopolitan interview on the subject, which Trump abruptly ended after it got intense.

Ivanka Trump had taken heat after she was pressed in an interview with Cosmopolitan to explain why her father’s plan, which she was given credit for, did not include gay men or those who have children via surrogate. She hit back at her critics and at Cosmopolitan Thursday on Twitter:

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  1. Shorter Ivanka: Afterall, I am my father’s daughter.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Good Lord. I can see Ivanka takes after her dad.

    Puts out a half-baked, poorly thought out “plan”. And when called out on its weaknesses, doubles down, attacks the interviewer, fails to apologize, and doesn’t care to improve it.

    Makes me think the agenda is not to improve the lives of working Americans, but merely to get credit for a “policy idea”.

    Sad.

  3. Apparently a daughter he likes to kiss alot

  4. Think about this: If Trump actually manages to get elected, his family will be his kitchen cabinet (if not actual Cabinet)!

  5. She [Ivanka Trump] hit back at her critics and at Cosmopolitan Thursday on Twitter

    Takes after her dad who also during an actual live person-to-person exchange can’t think quick enough to answer softball questions or even describe their supposed well thought out plans, so they result to a twitter response.

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