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Ivanka and Jared Just Released a Truly Gross Statement About Attending John McCain’s Funeral

Could they be any more disgusting?

If you’ve ever stopped and wondered why so much news from the Trump era keeps resurfacing, wonder no more. It’s because it’s taken us this long to find out just how awful they actually were.

Not just sold-arms-to-the-Saudis awful, either. We’re talking completely out of touch with reality. Absolutely disconnected from anything decent or good in the world. Devoid of compassion. Emotionless.

Before her dad was president, Ivanka Trump could have passed for a relatively liberal person — in favor of women’s rights and marriage equality, bound to specific charities that helped women and the poor, and just generally an okay person by outward appearances.

But we’ve come to understand that it was all because it was fashionable. In reality, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are elitist socialites that couldn’t care less about any actual causes. They just wanted tax write-offs and friendly write-ups in magazines.

Some people had to find that out the hard way. Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Arizona Senator John McCain, just came out with a new book, Bad Republican. Inside the pages, she details at least one encounter with “Javanka”: Her dad’s funeral.

You might remember how Trump himself pretended that he had to “approve” McCain’s stately funeral, despite not being invited. But Javanka was there, and as far as Meghan McCain knew, they were crashing the event. She had been unaware that any Trumps were given an invitation, and with good reason. After the way the former president treated her father, even after his passing, it was unthinkable.

From her book:

I saw Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner sitting towards the back. As far as I knew, they had not been invited but they showed up anyway. Funeral crashers. It never even crossed my mind that they would come. Why would you go to something like that? It seemed audacious even for them. When I saw them I thought, ‘I hope this is the most uncomfortable moment of your entire life.’

But it turns out that Jared and Ivanka may have been welcome after all.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, once a sworn enemy of Trump, became so enamored of the power that his new friendship with the president that he turned into one of his biggest defenders. That translated into ignoring Trump’s treatment of McCain — his former best friend — and helping Ivanka and her husband secure an invite from the late Senator’s widow Cindy.

She was upset they were there — I understand that, and she has hard feelings but I know what happened and nobody showed up uninvited. I love Meghan McCain and I understand how stressful all this has been for her and those who criticize her dad will never be forgiven by her.

Did they go because they loved John McCain so much that they had to pay their last respects? Of course not. Since everything they do is about being seen by the right people doing the right thing, Ivanka and her creepy man-child had Graham ask if they could come, when they apparently didn’t even want to.

That’s right: They made a statement so disgusting after seeing what Meghan printed in her book that it’s almost hard to even print it here.

A source close to the power couple told the Washington Post that not only did they not actually want to go, but they were annoyed by Meghan to begin with:

Jared and Ivanka had about as much interest in attending the funeral as they did the half dozen or so dinner invitations that Ben and Meghan pestered them with after the funeral.

I don’t doubt for a moment that Ivanka would have a similar sentiment about even her OWN father’s funeral. She’s just that disgusting.

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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