Julia Ioffe Fired Over Obscene Ivanka Trump Tweet
Image by YouTube
Reporter Julia Ioffe has been fired by Politico after she suggested on Twitter that President-elect Donald Trump is having sex with his daughter Ivanka.
Her tweet followed a report in The Hill that Ivanka will get an office in the White House in the space traditionally reserved for the First Lady. Trump’s team denied the report.
Politico announced her firing, saying “incidents like this tarnish POLITICO and the great work being done across the company.”
Ioffe reacted to her firing on Twitter, saying “I guess my phrasing should have been more delicate.”
Last month Ioffe was named as one of the Forward 50 list of influential Jews in 2016.
Earlier this year, Ioffe clashed with Trump after publishing a revealing profile of Melania Trump for GQ magazine. Critics flooded her with calls playing Adolf Hitler’s speeches, photoshopped images showing her in death camp uniform, and called her a “filthy Russian kike.”
Last week, The Atlantic announced Ioffe would join the magazine next year as a national security, foreign policy and politics reporter. The magazine has not commented on Ioffe’s tweet.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
