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The Joke That Is Ivanka Trump's Brand

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President Trump's daughter-wife (kudos to Bill Maher for coining the denomination ) had dreams of Versace. Then, reality slapped her in the face and she had to pivot! The New York heiress with no sex tape decided to become an inspiration for what a very smart marketing team called "Women Who Work". After all who could embody the dreams of self made success better than Donald Trump's daughter? Gag on the irony! For Ivanka's target audience, Donald Trump was just the Orange guy who hosts the apprentice and who whines about everything Obama. They knew nothing or very little about the sex scandals, the bankruptcies, the I-would-date-her-if-she-wasn't-my-daughter, the obsession with the Central Park Five, the marking-Afro-Americans-applications-with-the-letter-c-for-colored and every other thing that surfaced or resurfaced ever since he declared all Mexicans  rapists. Even if they knew, they didn't really care. As far as they were concerned, Ivanka wa...
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Review of Jeffrey Toobin's "The People vs OJ Simpson, The Run of his Life"

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In the epilogue of his book Jeffrey Toobin summarizes the civil trial (1997) at the end of which Orenthal James Simpson was found liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. And while one would think OJ Simpson would silently disappear in the land of criminals who got away with murder, the verdict was the beginning of another trial starring the unapologetic ex American football player. Ordered to pay nearly 35 million dollars to the families of his two victims, OJ claimed bankruptcy. Today, he owes them as much as 58 millions. Among the possessions Simpson gave away to avoid them being seized by the Goldman's lawyers were the trove of items OJ will stand trial in 2008 for stealing at gunpoint. At the end of this third trial, OJ was sentenced to 33 years in jail with eligibility of parole in nine year. Shockingly or not so shockingly enough, he was granted parole and becomes eligible for release as early as October first,2017.  In his remarks dur...
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