Ivanka Trump lost her appeal and is officially set to testify in the fraud trial against the Trump Organization.

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    She claimed she’d face undue hardship because it’s during the school week.

    What?

    She’s got a husband. I bet she still has a nanny - she mentioned having one in her book. She’s got two brothers that aren’t going to be testifying at the same time.

    The kids will be in school for 8 hours, and literally any one of those people could watch her kids for the remaining time. Normal people have to deal with this all the time.

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    Ivanka is likely to be less coy about her father’s business dealings, according to Mary, who believes that the heiress will “tell the truth and throw him under the bus,” since she’s “legitimately wealthy” without her father and doesn’t need to rely on him.

    Lemme go out on a limb and predict that this won’t happen.

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      Yeah doubt that’ll happen. Though this next quote seemed pretty accurate.

      “They’re going to have to walk a very thin line between obfuscating in a way that’s not perjury and appeasing their father’s ego so that he doesn’t throw them under the bus when he testifies, which of course he’s going to do no matter what they do,” Mary Trump said … referring to the two sons.

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      Yeah… regardless of her independent wealth, what does she stand to gain by doing that? Maybe if she was paid to do it, but not for free.

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    What scares me about Ivanka is that if she stays in politics she’s likely to be Trump’s heir to the Maga throne. Sure Trump is an idiot and will die soon, but she’s smarter than him and can be president, as lots of “centrist” will jump to her over her dad

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      Somehow I get the impression she’d rather stay far away from political office after dealing with dad. Don Jr is more likely to try and fail on that front. She’d rather find a good sweatshop in China and start a new clothing line.

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      She doesn’t havea combination of toxic masculinity and an inferiority complex driving her to a self sabotaging rage, so I doubt she’ll tilt at too many windmills.

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      Yup, it plays well with his audience - she’s just a poor stay at home mom doing her best to take care of her kids, and the evil radical left is dragging her into their witch hunt, harming her kids

      Yeah it’s bullshit, but it’s good bullshit

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            Her husband gave up untold US security secrets for $2 billion. Anyone paying attention won’t be swayed by the childcare bit.

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                I’ve repeated this story a million times since 2016.

                Right after the election, there was a panel discussion. They invited the creators of all the top political TV shows. VEEP, House of Cards, The West Wing, Scandal, etc. All the producers/writers said the same thing : if they’d had a TV character say that he ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the netowrks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be shown to be hated and despised by all Americans.

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              Possibly also responsible for a number of deaths occurring because of what sensitive information those files contained. I imagine we will know more about the later when James is done squeezing the juice out of orange fatsy.

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            Actually, it makes them look dumb. But it seems to me, that the majority of the US American society simply believes whatever they want and fits their agenda

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    the best outcome i can hope for is that this whole mayonnaise family is barred from running for office in case any of them were thinking about it

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    It’s gonna be a big week I think.

    The warm up with the sons didn’t disappoint but it seems like ivanka is less likely to perjure herself.

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      Oh, it’s gonna be a big week. My son will be born. I’m not joking. Sorry.for capturing your comment, but I have to let the world know. Besides, there still are good things happening.

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        Oh, it’s gonna be a big week. My son will be born. I’m not joking. Sorry.for capturing your comment, but I have to let the world know. Besides, there still are good things happening.

        Dont name him Donald.

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            “Daddy why did you name me Fartsgerald Dickworth?”

            “Well my dearest son. It was either that or Donald.”

            “But dad Donald is a nice normal name, the kids at school wouldn’t tease me if I was named Donald.”

            “Here my son. Sit down at my knee and I will tell you a tale that will scare you to the bottom of your Dickworth.”

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          I don’t want to one up both of you guys, but my wife is making enchiladas tomorrow. So things are going really well around here. Sorry if I stole your thunder.

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          You just reminded me of trying to enjoy a video game while some dipshit yelled at his crying baby, Khaleesi, to be quiet so he could focus. The last thing he heard before being booted from the raid was, “The character’s name is Daenerys.”

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            Another one! I met a kid named Khaleesi too, I felt so bad. And that same day met a kid named Sephiroth. Like what are these parents thinking? I respect the Sephiroth slightly more though, at least that was the character’s name.

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              I like to imagine the parents explaining why they named their daughter Khaleesi. “Well, we thought it was the name of a lady who got sold by her brother to a barbarian warlord, became a queen, and then lost her shit, and burned a bunch of people to death. Oh yeah, there’s a bunch of incest and rape in the story too but we’ll save that for when you’re a little older. And anyway, that’s not even actually her name. Turns out Khaleesi is just ‘princess’ in a made up language.”

              Agreed completely on Sephiroth. Seph isn’t a terrible nickname either.

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            “She’s not named after the character, guys. She’s named Khaleesi because she’ll always be my little Princess.”

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        As a fellow Dad, this warms my heart to read. There will be no moment quite like that one in your life. Sending you good luck, good vibes and a whole lot of love.

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      Ivanka may be less likely to perjure herself, but she’s also much more likely to intentionally throw Donald under the bus to save her own skin. She already feels the noose tightening around the entire operation, and is desperate to distance herself.

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    I swear, this family will pull anything out of their ass to delay when they know they’re guilty as hell.