Ivanka Trump walks OUT interview after struggling w basic questions

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(CNN) Ivanka Trump cut short an interview with Cosmopolitan published Wednesday after being asked about some of Donald Trump's past comments about childcare and maternity leave.

Trump criticized the interviewer for having "a lot of negativity" in her questions.

Trump had hoped to highlight the Republican presidential nominee's new childcare policy, which she helped craft and introduce this week.

But the candidate's daughter bristled when interviewer Prachi Gupta asked, "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?"

"So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions," Ivanka Trump said, according to Cosmopolitan's transcript. "So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this, if you're going to make a comment like that."

She said the question was "an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women."

Gupta pressed on: "I would like to say that I'm sorry the questions -- you're finding them negative, but it is relevant that a presidential candidate made those comments. So I'm just following up."

"Well, you said he made those comments. I don't know that he said those comments," Trump said.

Presented with the source of her father's quote -- an NBC interview in 2004 -- Trump shot back that "there's plenty of time for you to editorialize around this," and again pitched the campaign's new childcare policy.

"I hope that regardless of what your political viewpoint is, this should be celebrated," she added.

Trump also clashed with Gupta when asked why the campaign's paid leave proposal didn't apply to gay couples or include paternity leave. She said that the reason the proposal wouldn't include to those groups is that "the original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth."

"So I just want to be clear that, for same-sex adoption, where the two parents are both men, they would not be receiving special leave for that because they don't need to recover or anything?" Gupta asked.

Trump said: "Well, those are your words, not mine. Those are your words. The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/ivanka-trump-cosmo-interview/

[TheKillerQueen 1,983]

Good for her for leaving. If you're a strong female, you don't need permission... 

[Stephen 30,433]

wow

[Scar97 1,695]

Yeah they are negative, but he's a negative twat and the media needs to call him out on in it

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

4 minutes ago, TheKillerQueen said:

Good for her for leaving. If you're a strong female, you don't need permission... 

She was leaving because the questions were why didn't the child care plan include gay parents who are men. lol Then accused the reporter of asking negative questions? Are questions about gay parents negative to her?

[PartySick 172,522]

I've been trying to stay away from politics to enjoy Joanne's release (god that feels good to say) but the train wreck keeps pulling me back in

This makes me curious about how Trump will deal with being pressed on his many, many, many, many issues and fumbles during the debates. Will he just get up and walk out too?

[calmar 22,768]

 I'm beginning to think the reason she likes her dad is that she's like her dad. Maybe just too young and intelligent to flaunt it.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

I was just about to post this. lol you beat me to it. The negative questions that were asked was why weren't gay male dads included in the child care plan.

 

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

nah homegurl helped come up with this flop attempt at pandering, gurl should be able to answer questions about her own brainchild.

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Thought this was on video

[Whispering 18,865]

Oh Ivanka, this isn't Daddy's company where everyone is going to treat you like a god. You jumped into politics. When you put forth a proposal in the political world, you have to expect to get some tough questions. She thought the whole world was going to tell her how Amazing she was....and it doesn't work that way.