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Ivanka Trump Tweets Support for Goya Foods Amid Boycott Campaign
Ivanka Trump Tweets Support for Goya Foods Amid Boycott Campaign WorldViralMedia 20 Views • 5 years ago

U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to support Goya Foods after the largest Hispanic-owned U.S. food company became the target of a social media boycott campaign sparked by its CEO's effusive praise for President Donald Trump.

"If it's Goya, it has to be good," Ivanka, daughter of Donald Trump, tweeted the company's slogan in English and then repeated it in Spanish on Tuesday night.

Ivanka's tweet, in which she is seen holding a can of Goya's black beans, garnered over 35,000 retweets and 62,000 likes in little over 4 hours.

However, her comments could violate government ethics rules prohibiting the use of public office to endorse products or advance personal business gains. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway was criticized in 2017 after she appeared to break similar federal ethics rules when she said on television that Americans should "go buy Ivanka's stuff."

The White House did not take any disciplinary action against Conway even after calls from the ethics watchdog.

In an interview with Fox News last week, Conway decried the Goya Foods controversy. "It's just a shame that people make everything so politicized, including food," she said.

The hashtags #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya trended on Twitter after Robert Unanue, chief executive officer of the New Jersey-based company, appeared with Trump at the White House on Thursday for the signing of an executive order creating an advisory panel aimed at spurring Hispanic prosperity.

"We're all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder, and that’s what my grandfather did,” Unanue, who is the third generation of his family to run the business, had said.

Trump himself weighed in on the dispute late on Friday, writing on Twitter simply: "I LOVE @GoyaFoods!"

Disturbing video shows moment two men are fatally shot in the Bronx
Disturbing video shows moment two men are fatally shot in the Bronx WorldViralMedia 22 Views • 5 years ago

⁣Disturbing footage released by the NYPD shows the moment two men were murdered and another wounded during a wild, close-range shootout in a Bronx apartment building.
The surveillance video — recorded Sunday evening inside the building on East 171st Street near College Avenue in Claremont and tweeted by Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison — shows three men peeking down a staircase and then making a beeline for an apartment.
Two gunmen suddenly emerge, one from the staircase and the other from down the hallway, the footage shows.

One suspect appears to fire his weapon once before disappearing down the staircase, while the other pops off several shots.

⁣The clip cuts out as two of the victims struggle on the floor while the third man desperately tries to open the door.
Cops say Joel Baba, 22, who was shot multiple times, and Eghosa Imafidon, 23, who took a bullet to the neck, were pronounced dead at BronxCare Health System.
The other victim, a 29-year-old, was shot in the arm. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
The shooting came amid a tremendous spike in gun violence in the city.


Two men were killed and another wounded during a wild, close-range shootout in The Bronx.
NYPD

Between Monday, June 29, and Sunday, July 5, the city saw 74 shooting incidents with 101 victims, the sources said. That’s compared to 26 shootings with 33 victims during that time last year.
Meanwhile, 18 people were murdered in the city last week — six more than during the same period last year.

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