Why It’s Troubling That Ivanka Trump Joined in on Her Dad’s Call With Argentina’s President

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Mere days after sitting in on her father Donald Trump’s first foreign diplomacy meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Ivanka Trump has yet again been caught mixing her father’s business with his presidency.

In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Argentine President Mauricio Macri revealed on Monday that he spoke with Ivanka during a phone call with the president-elect — which should immediately raise red flags for quite a few reasons.

To begin with, Ivanka joining in on the call is already troubling enough, for the same reason it was troubling when she sat in on the meeting with Abe: Ivanka and her siblings will reportedly be running Trump’s businesses in a “blind trust” once he enters office. Her sitting in on these diplomatic meetings — and possibly influencing their conversations — is unethical at very best.

But the situation becomes even shadier once you discover Trump has reportedly been trying to start construction of a new Trump Tower in Buenos Aires since 2012. He was never able to get approval from the city, however, until mysteriously, after his (and Ivanka’s) phone call with Macri, the president-elect suddenly appeared to get the go-ahead to begin construction in 2017, with plans to complete the project before 2020.

And who’s probably going to be in charge of overseeing all this while Trump is in the White House? You guessed it: Ivanka Trump, the person Macri admitted to speaking with on the phone without specifying why.

Multiple local media outlets in Argentina soon after began reporting that Trump had specifically asked about the stalled construction permits during his call with Macri, but both of them quickly denied it and the media just as quickly brushed over it. However, many are still skeptical that the topic of the Buenos Aires Trump Tower wasn’t at least broached during the call — or that the call didn’t have some influence on the approvals — and Twitter user Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) has given a pretty thorough and well-cited explanation as to why. (It’s long, but well worth a read.)

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