President Trump fired off a Twitter storm on Monday morning, retweeting a variety of “Fox & Friends” segments and defending his daughter Ivanka holding his seat at the G20 Summit.
Trump wrote, “When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!”
He continued: “If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!”
Although UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s aide briefly took her place while she stepped out, it was Trump’s action that fired up critics, sparking accusations of nepotism when the president’s daughter took a seat between May and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a session titled “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health.”
According to the Agency France-Presse, a White House official emphasized that “when other leaders stepped out, their seats were also briefly filled by others.” In addition to defending his daughter, Trump also tweeted about former FBI Director James Comey on Monday.
“James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal,” the president wrote immediately after retweeting a Fox News segment on the same subject.
Check out the president’s early morning tweets:
.@carriesheffield: The mainstream media is neglecting their duty to represent the public. They've failed to represent half of the country. pic.twitter.com/7NT3lf5ALV
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
Report accuses material James Comey leaked to a friend contained top secret information pic.twitter.com/Hkg4cAb6o9
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884361623514656769
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884363456849342464
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884374529660903424
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884378624660582405
https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/884206205769592832
.@jasoninthehouse: Comey went silent when I asked him about his memos, which raised a lot of eyebrows. pic.twitter.com/BfSPpUFeL5
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
Head of the NYPD union slams Mayor de Blasio for skipping vigil for assassinated cop Miosotis Familia pic.twitter.com/nVWLbbEiDh
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017