Why secret?? Because #IvankaTheTerrible is always #Complicit https://t.co/eGoGkI2jUA
— ginger slapp (@GingerSlapp) April 6, 2017
Politico reports this morning that Ivanka Trump held a “secret” meeting with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards after her father’s inauguration to find “common ground on the contentious issue of abortion”:
Ivanka's secret Planned Parenthood outreach https://t.co/IFo8mkXwE9 via @AnnieKarni pic.twitter.com/4RetAoFp7F
— POLITICO (@politico) April 6, 2017
The opener:
In the weeks following her father’s inauguration, Ivanka Trump quietly reached out to the president of Planned Parenthood seeking common ground on the contentious issue of abortion.
The first daughter requested a sit-down with Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood and a vocal surrogate for Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail, to talk about an organization that is being targeted by Republicans seeking to defund it because it provides abortions, among other women’s health services like cancer screenings.
Their under-the-radar meeting — a rarity between a well-known Democratic activist and a close adviser to a Republican president — has not been previously reported.
“The purpose of the meeting, from Cecile’s point of view, was to make sure that Ivanka fully understood what Planned Parenthood does, how it is funded, and why it would be a terrible idea for Planned Parenthood to be removed from being able to see Medicaid patients,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “The main thing that Cecile Richards was doing was explaining that the money doesn’t actually go to abortions — we get reimbursed the same way a hospital does. We were clearing up misinformation about how this works.”
Read the whole thing here.
But if Ivanka thought this outreach would go over well with liberals, she was mistaken:
https://twitter.com/TheSavvyDSTGyal/status/849922811904839680
If it really was a "women's issues" listening tour, why so secret? And since her father keeps making so many anti-woman policies why bother?
— Unpresidented (@dialogician) April 6, 2017
Mrs. #Complicit only looks out for wealthy women. She has no clue how the rest of us deal with reality. #Shame #selfish #poser
— ❤️Amor Omnia Vincit ???????️?✌? (@NativeTexan74) April 6, 2017
She can’t win.
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