After her father barrel rolled into the 2016 GOP primary race by condemning undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists” bringing drugs and crime into the country, Ivanka Trump wrote a “clarification” to the remarks that went unused.
As part of a deposition given in an ongoing lawsuit with celebrity chef José Andrés, which stems from Andrés pulling out of a business deal over the GOP nominee’s anti-immigrant remarks, Trump said she drafted remarks in an attempt to right the ship.
“I had suggested a clarification because I felt that his comments were being misconstrued,” she said, according to reporting from BuzzFeed News. “Not a retraction. I don’t think that’s my place.”
The New York businessman’s remarks that Mexican immigrants were “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists” in his June 2015 campaign launch were “mischaracterized as being a categorical attack on Hispanics,” Trump reportedly said in the deposition.
Asked if she had written a statement about the remarks, Trump said she “drafted something for myself” but noted “it was not used.”
In his own deposition for the case, Donald Trump said he did not recall any conversation with his eldest daughter about reeling the comments back.
So, from this article, the daughter said something or wrote something but no one paid attention to it and it was not ever used in any legal proceding? That’s “breaking news”?
“Katherine Krueger is the breaking news editor at TPM in New York City”
Katherine, with all the news around this week, I think you picked up and wrote about one of the most irrelevant of all non-news items. Try to stay on topic. It’s 2016, and there’s a general election on.
Lol. Ivanka’s become an enabler.
Family shouldn’t let family tweet drunk.
His remarks were “misconstrued” and “mischaracterized”??
Wake up, honey, your dad is a racist, misogynistic pig, who is now inciting violence on multiple levels.
Do your country a favor and take him back to that garish, tasteless brothel-like pen he calls home, lock him up and take away his internet until the election is over.
The Tramp family are the scum of America. They are amoral, liars without compunction and have no decency whatsoever.
My guess is it’s Katherine’s turn to work the weekend or Saturday shift and this was the first new thing she spotted since last night.