Ivanka Trump denies claim she wanted to see ‘mulatto cocks’ after BuzzFeed CEO tweet
Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed’s CEO, questioned Ivanka Trump’s reaction to her father’s lewd comments
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Your support makes all the difference.Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed’s CEO, questioned Ivanka Trump’s reaction to her father’s lewd comments by tweeting a story involving “mulatto cocks” on Wednesday afternoon.
“Surprised Ivanka would be shocked by lewd language. I met her once & she casually said: ‘I've never seen a mulatto cock, but I'd like to!’”
Ivanka, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, recently said that she was shocked by her father’s comments in the leaked audio from 2005 where he bragged about grabbing women’s genitals without permission.
“That’s not language consistent with any conversation I’ve ever had with him, certainly, or any conversation I’ve overheard,” she explained at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. “So it was a bit jarring for me to hear.”
Mr Peretti claims the conversation took place at a Manhattan dive bar nearly 10 years ago with at least five others present.
“She was saying how she first said she had never seen an uncircumcised cock,” he told BuzzFeed News, “and then she said, ‘I’ve never seen a mulatto cock. There’s lots of cocks I’ve never seen,’ or something like that.”
“Of course, it was memorable just because of the use of the lewd language and racist language," he explained. "It was also memorable being in the environment of being… in New York, sometimes liberal and progressive people make comments meant as jokes and not necessarily earnest. I didn’t know how to take it.”
Andrea Harner, Mr Peretti's wife, supported her husband's claims.
She told the news outlet, “I was there and did hear it but have no comment beyond that.”
Ms Trump has since denied the accuracy of the story, "I am not sure if this was meant to be a joke, but in case there is any ambiguity, this is a complete and total lie."
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