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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Defends Ivanka’s Presence at G20, ‘She’s Created Millions of Jobs!’

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders came to Ivanka Trump’s defense on Sunday, after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the president’s daughter appearing at last week’s G20 summit.

The New York representative shared a clip of the first daughter apparently trying to join a conversation between French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde.

Ocasio-Cortez wrote alongside the video: “It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in [and] the world moves on.”

She continued: “The U.S. needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either.”

Defending Ivanka Trump and her father, Sanders accused Ocasio-Cortez of “phoning it in” herself by “wasting” time on social media and “destroying jobs” in New York.

Ocasio-Cortez made headlines back in February after online megastore Amazon scrapped plans to build an additional head office (HQ2) in Queens, New York.

The representative praised the news, having previously slammed the company for asking city boards to bid on the facility.

“The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when…our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here,” she tweeted in November.

But others, including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, expressed dismay over the lost deal. He blamed “a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community,” for a “lost economic opportunity” he claimed could have created some 25,000-40,000 jobs.

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