Ivanka Trump To Appear On ‘Fox & Friends’: What To Expect From Her Interview
President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump is set to appear on Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” Monday. This would be the first time when Ivanka would appear on the show after her father became the president.
Her interview has been scheduled for 7 a.m. EST. Trump tweeted Sunday saying his daughter would be appearing on the show, which he has praised in the past.
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"I have to say, ‘Fox & Friends’ in the morning, they're very honorable people," Trump said in February. "They're very — not because they're good, because they hit me also when I do something wrong. But they have the most honest morning show. That's all I can say. It's the most honest."
The 35-year-old mother of three is expected to talk about the president’s plans for infrastructure reform and workforce development. She is also likely to publicly react to former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee that happened Thursday.
In his testimony, Comey said he maintained memos of his conversations with Trump. In the memos, he wrote Trump told him to “let go” of the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia and asked him to pledge personal loyalty. He also said the president defamed him and the FBI, and lied about the nature of his firing.
“Although the law requires no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly, the FBI, by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its lead,” Comey said, in the testimony. “Those were lies plain and simple. And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them and I am so sorry that the American people were told them.”
However, Trump criticized Comey and called him a “leaker” because the latter admitted he released the details of his conversation with him to the press.
Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s eldest son, tweeted several times during the testimony and expressed his disapproval of Comey’s move to release the contents of the conversation with the president.
“Did I miss something or did Comey just say he asked a friend to leak information to the press? Is this a joke?” Trump Jr. tweeted.
Separately, Ivanka also found herself at the center of criticism in recent months — especially after she took up the senior adviser job in her father’s administration. Her eponymous clothing was taken off shelves from major retailers across the country over poor sales in February. Most recently, Twitter users roasted her after she appeared on the June cover of Us Weekly magazine. The cover page of the magazine read: “Ivanka takes a stand: Why I disagree with my dad.”
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Twitter users asked how Ivanka would take a stand against her father if she worked for him and his administration. The magazine’s article did not have direct quotes from the first daughter, but cited a source instead.
"Sometimes she and [her husband] Jared [Kushner] are a big influence on Donald and sometimes he takes other opinions into account and does something they disagree with," the source told the magazine. "They win some and they lose some."
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