Donald Trump says he would tell his daughter to find a new job if she were harassed at work

Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump.
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When asked what he would tell his eldest daughter, Ivanka, if she was being sexually harassed in the workplace, Donald Trump gave a stupefying response.

"I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case," the Republican nominee told interviewer Kirsten Powers, a paid political contributor to Fox News. Powers wrote about their discussion in an opinion piece for USA Today, which takes a closer look at the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against former Fox News CEO Rogers Ailes by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson and others.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.