Ivanka Trump, a person whom we now just sort of glumly accept as a relevant political figure because her nepotist father is president, participated in one of these soft-lit D.C. "conversations" on Thursday to discuss how very, very troubled she feels about the past few months of immigration-related unpleasantness. The policy of separating small children from their parents at the border—a policy specifically enacted to deter immigration by the same administration in which she works—"was a low point" for her, she said. Indeed, it is hard to think of anyone else for whom this might have been more difficult.

Reflecting on her experience as the daughter of an immigrant mother, Trump described herself as "very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children." She hedged a bit, though, employing the sort of language her father uses when discussing a topic about which he had no personal knowledge before bullet points slid across his desk several hours earlier: "Immigration is incredibly complex, as a topic. Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated."

This was just the latest stop on Trump's perpetual apology tour for the White House's intermittent spates of despicableness, where she smiles knowingly when asked the hard questions, offers a performative, pained chuckle, and then issues somber bromides designed to show that She Gets It. (At the same event, she bravely opined that the media is not, as her father frequently puts it, "the enemy of the people.") For respectable Republicans who find open displays of racism "unbecoming" but are quite fond of enormous corporate tax cuts, Ivanka Trump is the occasional splash of bleach that makes this whole mess tolerable. Whenever Trump's cruelty makes them the tiniest bit uneasy, the idea of her presence is what allows them to carry on. Well, at least he has that sensible daughter in his ear, they reason. Surely she will prevent this from getting too far out of hand.

As you know by now, this is horseshit. Ivanka Trump hasn't done a thing to stop the various practices that she would claim in private to abhor, even when opportunities to demonstrate a shred of integrity are gift-wrapped by interns and placed lovingly at her office door. She was reportedly trying to persuade Dad and/or Congress to put an end to this self-inflicted humanitarian crisis six full weeks ago. Based on her public silence, both at that time and in the interim, it does not appear that this issue has caused her much consternation since.

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