Maternity leave has been at the forefront of this presidential election, with Hillary Clinton promoting her plan to ensure all parents—regardless of gender and whether or not their children are biological or adopted—receive twelve weeks of paid leave, and Trump lobbying around maternity leave strictly for women. One of Trump's ads on the subject recently caught the eye of one of his daughter [Ivanka Trump]'s former employees, who had a lot to say about how the Trump company handled her maternity leave. (Spoiler: they apparently didn't handle it well.)

When the sponsored post popped into Marissa Velez Kraxberger's Facebook feed, she took the opportunity to share her maternity leave experience while working for the Republican nominee's daughter, as Jezebel reports. Kraxberger, who served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Trump's clothing line, signed on with the company when she was two months pregnant so maternity leave was an obvious concern for her. When she asked about the company's policy, however—after receiving an offer from Ivanka Trump herself—Trump's daughter allegedly "said she would have to think about it, that at Trump they don't offer maternity leave and that she went back to work just a week after having her first child."

Ironically, it was Kraxberger's team that implemented Trump's #WomenWhoWork campaign and solidified that the company grant mothers maternity leave. "I somehow was dumb enough to accept the job after agreeing upon having the discussion further down the road about how we would handle the time after my baby was born," Kraxberger writes. "Our team—the ones who created #WomenWhoWork and the ones who the hashtag really stood for—fought long and hard to get her to finally agree to 8 weeks paid maternity leave."

So imagine Kraxberger's puzzlement when she later discovered that the campaign had been co-opted by a man whose comments define what rape culture is and who is spoken about more for his misogynistic and racist comments than his policies. "The company and the #WomenWhoWork platform we created was meant to inspire and encourage women to work at all aspects of their lives and live the lives they wanted to live, but before our eyes she took the platform and made it all about herself," says Kraxberger, "and now it's being dragged along side of this man who could potentially be the face of our country. A man who puts down women and makes lewd comments, a man who is an outspoken racist, a man with no real vision for our future just scare tactics and threats. I'm not only saddened by the state of our nation, but mostly by the fact that our kids foundational years in school, where they learn about our nation's history, could be under the leadership of this man."

A brand spokesperson for Trump reached out to us with the following statement: