The Atlanticon Monday publisheda lengthy account of the Trump family’s rise, political aspirations and, allegedly, the infighting betweenIvanka TrumpandDonald Trump Jr.including suspicions of planted stories about the other.
“I found myself feeling sorry for the kids at different moments,” Huntsman said of Don Jr., Ivanka andEric Trump, who were partially raised in a tabloid swirl of their father’s own making.
“No offense, they crashed my dad’s funeral. They get nothing from me,” McCain cut in, referring to when Ivanka and Ivanka’s husband,Jared Kushner, attended Sen.John McCain‘s service last year.
President Trump was excluded from Meghan’s dad’s memorial aftera long history of denigrating him, which continued after he died.
“They’re not good people,” Meghan said onThe View.
A McCain family friend previously told PEOPLE, “There were a lot of people involved in the planning of the funeral, and she [Meghan] does not know whose list they were on.”
“I didn’t know they were coming,” Meghan toldPortermagazine earlier this year. “I didn’t know until I saw them there.”
She said: “I looked over and saw them and well… they got to listen to what I had to say.”
What she had to say indeed: Though Meghan never mentioned the president’s name,she repeatedly invoked the example of her fatheragainst “the opportunistic appropriation of those that live lives of comfort and privilege.”
She also took aim at Trump’s signature vow to “make America great again.”
“The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold. She is resourceful, confident, and secure. … The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” Meghan said then.
OnThe Viewon Tuesday, she had more cutting words for Ivanka, who has become the face of the Trump administration’s workforce and women’s policies. Meghanhas criticized Ivanka before, joining others who say she and Kushner are unqualified for such high-profile political positions.
“I still don’t know what she [Ivanka] does all day. … I know she does women’s initiatives but that’s all very nebulous,” Meghan said.
The White House quickly pushed back.
“The idea that the hosts ofThe Viewor a reporter atThe Atlantichave any factual reads on what goes on within the Trump family is completely asinine,” spokeswoman Jessica Ditto tells PEOPLE.
“Ivanka is proud of this administration and the work that they have done over the last two and a half years,” she continued. “Pledges for the creation of millions of training opportunities for American workers and over a billion dollars in funding towards women’s economic empowerment in Latin America are anything but nebulous.”
Ditto also contendsThe Atlanticarticle was more smoke than fire: “All of this is false and a flimsy single anonymous source will not succeed at creating a rift in the family.”
Ivanka recently returned to the U.S.after a South American tripto promote entrepreneurship and gender parity and America’s support of Venezuela Juan Guaidó in replacing the president there, among other issues.
She has previously faced scrutiny over her security clearance, her effectiveness and her motives as the daughter of the president now working in a government job.
source: people.com
