The shoe warehouse site shoes.com removed all Ivanka Trump products from its website Friday, Fast Company reports.
According to a representative for Shoes.com, the website dropped her products because they “were not selling well." Cleveland.com reports the move was a response to the #GrabYourWallet campaign that encourages consumers to boycott businesses selling Trump products.
In early October, marketing strategist Shannon Coulter compiled and circulated a list of businesses selling Trump products, targeting stores like Macy’s, Amazon, and Nordstrom. According to Cleveland.com, shoes.com was originally on Coulter's list, but has since been removed since dropping the Trump brand.
Trump responded to the boycott late last month, touting her brand’s “advocacy for women” and insisting “tens of millions of American women” are “inspired” by her line of shoes, clothes, handbags and more.
“I never politicized that message,” Trump told Good Morning America. “People who are seeking to politicize it because they may disagree with the politics of my father, there’s nothing I can do to change that.”
Rejecting former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege, a federal judge has ordered Mark Meadows and other top aides from Trump's administration to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the lead up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, ABC News reported.
Trump's lawyers argued against the subpoenas, saying that executive privilege protected Trump's right to keep his communications during his time as president private.
Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege for several former aides including Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Robert O'Brien, Stephen Miller, and Dan Scavino. The order also included Nick Luna, John McEntee, and Ken Cuccinelli.
As ABC News points out, Trump is likely to appeal the ruling.
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"The DOJ is continuously stepping far outside the standard norms in attempting to destroy the long accepted, long held, Constitutionally based standards of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege," a Trump spokesperson said in a statement. "There is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump. The deranged Democrats and their comrades in the mainstream media are corrupting the legal process and weaponizing the justice system in order to manipulate public opinion, because they are clearly losing the political battle."
Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump for concealing more than 100 classified documents in his Florida home.
The Republican-majority U.S. House of Representatives Friday morning passed HR 5, the "Parents' Bill of Rights," legislation similar to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' laws that have led to book bans and targeting of LGBTQ children.
The bill passed 213-208, with 14 Members not voting. All yes votes were from Republicans only. Five Republicans joined Democrats to vote no.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu of California warned the legislation "pits parents against parents."
"The extreme MAGA H.R. 5 bill will let other parents dictate what books your child gets to read. It'll make it easier for other parents to know if your child has an eating disorder, or is experiencing a mental health crisis," Lieu warned.
U.S> Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) warned, "H.R. 5 would codify Republican book bans all over the country. Stories of Holocaust survivors, enslaved Americans, and over 1,600 other stories have already been pulled from shelves."
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said HR5 is "a vehicle for hate and political nonsense."
Congressman Greg Murphy, Republican of North Carolina, in a recorded statement falsely claimed the bill was needed because "Children are being taught to hate our country," and "parents are labeled as domestic terrorists."
In his speech before the bill passed, Speaker Kevin McCarthy declared, "We believe parents should know what your children is [sic] learning."
CNN reports the bill would also "require elementary and middle schools that receive federal funding to obtain parental consent before 'changing a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form; or allowing a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.'"
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the legislation “Orwellian to the core,” and promised it “will not see the light of day.”
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Uganda has passed one of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, and U.S. evangelical groups had their hands all over it.
The East African nation has long pursued criminalizing homosexuality, and a draft version calls for the death penalty for "serial offenders" and other cases involving gay sex, and American religious organizations have invested millions of dollars to deepen homophobic views commonly held in the region, reported the Washington Post.
"In 2020, London-based OpenDemocracy found that more than 20 American religious organizations advocating against LGBTQ rights, safe abortion, access to contraceptives and comprehensive sex education had spent at least $54 million furthering their agendas in Africa since 2007," wrote foreign affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor. "Close to half that figure was spent in conservative, predominantly Christian Uganda alone, where religious advocates advocate for gay 'conversion therapy' and tout supposed success stories of 'ex-gay' people."
Evangelical pastor Scott Lively and other Americans delivered a series of lectures in Uganda almost 15 years ago that inflamed homophobia in the country, according to local LGBTQ rights activists, and his address to parliament promoted the idea that homosexuality was a Western-imported “disease” that could be spread to the country’s children.
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“This recasting of homosexuality as akin to pedophilia, alongside the widespread use of similar language, is meant to legitimize the response and crackdown by governments and institutions,” said Caleb Okereke, a Nigerian journalist.
Those same tactics are spreading back in the U.S., where Republican lawmakers have been targeting LGBTQ rights under the guise of protecting children from sex abuse, and Uganda serves as a warning.
“Ugandans have been radicalized into hatred for LGBTQ persons,” said Frank Mugisha, director of the LGBTQ rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda.
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