The foreign deals Ivanka made that implicate the emoluments laws or that Jared made with Middle Eastern countries who agreed to pay down his debt as he influenced policies that favored them also serve as a perverse method of résumé-padding, especially to a gullible and sometimes compromised American press. That Jared and Ivanka’s activity in office has abetted enemies of America (like Russia) or states rife with human rights violations (like Saudi Arabia) has proven irrelevant to media personalities seeking to normalize them: after all, many of these media personalities are themselves the sons
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