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发帖数: 897 | 1 Kellyanne Conway used her platform Thursday to urge Americans to “go buy
Ivanka’s stuff,” potentially violating ethics rules of the executive
branch.
Standing in the White House press briefing room, Conway, a counselor to the
president, encouraged Americans to purchase Ivanka Trump’s products, one
day after President Donald Trump himself lashed out at the department store
Nordstrom for dropping his daughter’s clothing line.
“It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it,” Conway told “Fox & Friends.”
“I fully — I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today,
everybody. You can find it online.”
Conway’s remark appears to violate the executive branch’s ban on staff
endorsing products or companies. The regulation, from the Office of
Government Ethics, also prohibits using public office for private gain of
oneself or friends or relatives.
Under the regulation, OGE’s director can notify the employee of the
violation and ask the agency to investigate. The director can recommend
discipline, including suspension, loss of pay or termination, but would
probably just issue a warning for a first offense.
Ordinarily, a violation in the White House would be dealt with by the White
House counsel. But it’s not clear how the regulation will be enforced under
a president who, based on his own statement on Wednesday, seems likely to
approve of what Conway said. (The president himself is technically exempt
from the regulation, but White House policy has long applied it to him.)
Citing declining sales for Ivanka Trump’s label, Nordstrom announced
earlier this month that it would no longer carry the president’s daughter’
s line, a move that sparked anger from Donald Trump, who tweeted Wednesday
that his daughter had “been treated so unfairly” by the department store.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have been highly visible
members of the administration since Donald Trump took office just under
three weeks ago. The president’s daughter accompanied him to Dover Air
Force Base last week for the return of the remains of a Navy SEAL killed
during a raid in Yemen and has advised him on policy issues, including the
environment and parental leave.
Conway told Fox News she found it “ironic that you’ve got some executives
all over the internet bragging about what they’ve done to [Ivanka] and her
line.”
“Yet, they’re using the most prominent woman in Donald Trump’s — you
know, most prominent — she’s his daughter, and they’re using her, who has
been a champion for women empowerment, women in the workplace, to get to
him,” she continued. “I think people could see through that. Go buy Ivanka
's stuff is what I would tell you. I hate shopping. I’m going to go get
some myself today.”
While Nordstrom claimed that the decision to drop Ivanka Trump’s line of
clothing and shoes was based solely on business, at least some of the
decline in sales of her products could be attributed to the #GrabYourWallet
campaign urging consumers to boycott Trump products.
Nordstrom also hasn’t shied away from voicing opposition to Trump’s
policies, releasing a statement in support of immigrants in the wake of the
president’s executive order temporarily banning individuals from certain
Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. in the name of national
security. The retailer announced its decision to drop Ivanka Trump’s line
three days after releasing that statement.
On Fox News, Conway called Ivanka Trump a “very successful businesswoman”
and an “incredibly confident, creative, talented woman” and indicated that
should be welcomed into a role at the White House to work on women's
empowerment issues, if she so chooses.
“Obviously, she’s stepped away from it now, but in the past she’s helped
to run her family’s real estate empire, and on the side she developed
another fully, unbelievably, entrepreneurial, wildly successful business
that bears her name,” Conway added. “And I think she’s gone from 800
stores to 1,000 stores or 1,000 places where you can buy — you can
certainly buy her goods online. She’s just at a very good place.” | p******e
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: Kellyanne Conway used her platform Thursday to urge Americans to “go buy
: Ivanka’s stuff,” potentially violating ethics rules of the executive
: branch.
: Standing in the White House press briefing room, Conway, a counselor to the
: president, encouraged Americans to purchase Ivanka Trump’s products, one
: day after President Donald Trump himself lashed out at the department store
: Nordstrom for dropping his daughter’s clothing line.
: “It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it,” Conway told “Fox & Friends.”
: “I fully — I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today,
: everybody. You can find it online.”
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