Ivanka Trump Reportedly Won China Trademarks The Day She Dined With Xi Jinping

function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Ivanka Trump, leader of a retail brand bearing her own name and adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, won provisional approval of three trademarks from China on the same day she dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife,The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.The president hosted Xiand his wife at his Mar-a-Lago estate in early April. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Trump adviser Jared Kushner,were present throughout the weekend and sat next to the couple at dinner.Ivanka Trump has distanced herself from her retail brand since her father won the presidential election in November 2016, but sales of her products have continued to surge. The brand, which she still owns, saw a spike in sales in the weeks after her fathers inauguration and after White House counselorKellyanne Conway urged consumers to go buy Ivankas stuff.When Nordstrom announced it would no longer carry Ivanka Trumps line, the president posted a negative tweet about the company, showing no apparent interest in separating himself from his familys businesses while serving in the White House.Trump and his children have been criticized for conflicts of interest since his election. The president has brushed off that criticism, arguing that he cant have a conflict of interest.The laws totally on my side, the president cant have a conflict of interest, Trump said in November 2016.According to the AP,Ivanka Trump Marks LLC applied for at least nine new trademarks in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Canada and the U.S. after the election.Read more atthe AP. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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