Brian Fallon, Hillary Clinton’s former press secretary, called out Ivanka Trump on Thursday for tacitly condoning her father’s response to the Charlottesville violence.
“Hey Ivanka: This is what it looks like to break from your father,” Fallon wrote on Twitter, referring to James Murdoch pledging to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.
Murdoch is the chief executive officer of 21st Century Fox and son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The younger Murdoch announced his pledge in an email sent to friends amid backlash to President Trump’s statements regarding the deadly unrest in Charlottesville over the weekend, where white supremary groups and neo-Nazis clashed with counter-protesters.
Fallon’s quip was in response to a tweet from CNN reporter Dylan Byers, who said Murdoch’s announcement was “truly stunning, esp. given his father’s ties to Trump & Fox News pro-Trump posture.”
Ivanka Trump, who converted to Judaism before she married Jared Kushner, who like her is now a White House senior adviser, has been criticized for not censuring her father’s reaction to the situation.
While the first daughter has not called out the president for his comments related Charlottesville, she did issue a statement Sunday which included language he initially neglected to use, criticizing neo-Nazis and white supremacists by name.
“There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” Trump tweeted. “We must all come together as Americans — and be one country UNITED.”
Hey Ivanka: This is what it looks like to break from your father.https://t.co/CI38VGSVkm
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 18, 2017

