Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Said to Have Helped Thwart L.G.B.T. Rights Rollback

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — The two most influential social liberals in President Trump’s inner circle — daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner — helped kill a proposed executive order that would have scrapped Obama-era L.G.B.T. protections, according to people familiar with the issue.

A third, Gary D. Cohn, the chairman of the president’s National Economic Council, a Democrat who was brought to the West Wing by Mr. Kushner and reflects the socially liberal and economically conservative views of many Wall Street power brokers, privately told aides to the president that he was disturbed it was even being considered.

The executive order has exposed what is likely to be a persistent schism in Mr. Trump’s paradoxical presidency: He is a cosmopolitan New Yorker who has long operated in an environment where sexual orientation is often an afterthought, but is nonetheless beholden to the social conservatives who backed him overwhelmingly in 2016, despite reports of his crudeness and sexual misdeeds.

Mr. Kushner, a lifelong Democrat, and Ms. Trump, an independent, travel in liberal social circles and have long supported L.G.B.T. rights. Neither had seen the order before details were leaked. They expressed their dissatisfaction to Mr. Trump’s other advisers, and then weighed in directly with the president, who opposes same-sex marriage but has spoken out against discrimination.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/us/politics/lgbt-rights-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[JI7]

1. this is PR . they were also the ones who wanted Pence on the Ticket

and Pence is one of the most anti gay officials in the country. and then there is the supreme court justice which is probably even more important in terms of rights for lgbt across the country.

i think we are getting these stories because of the boycotts against trump crap including ivanka's crap.

[erpowers]

6. I Agree With You

I am not buying any of this information. I also think a great deal of the stuff that is coming out about Jared and Ivanka Kushner is part of an effort distance them from Donald Trump in order to protect their businesses.

[GP6971]

2. I don't believe this for a nano second

Their objective is greed. Delay it now and then sneak it in down the road.

[hibbing]

3. Not buying it n/t

[tanyev]

4. President Bannon will just wait a couple weeks and get Trump to sign it

on a future Friday evening or Saturday.

[matt819]

5. Why should we believe anything

That comes from the mouths of these parasites?

[dflprincess]

7. Damage control

Nordstrom and Nieman Marcus are both dropping Ivanka's lines. They're trying to soften her image.