Well, well, well. It seems Moscow’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova gave a rather long winded answer when asked about the current state of U.S.-Russia relations.

And you haven’t heard about it, because it contains information about “secrets” the Obama administration had asked the Russian government to keep private, and the liberal mainstream media conveniently kept quiet about it. See her bombshell of a statement for yourself (and – SPOILER ALERT! – pay extra attention to the second to last paragraph):

Question: “How do you see the future of Russian-US diplomatic relations in the context of the current atmosphere in Washington? Can you confirm that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will come to Moscow in April?”

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Maria Zakharova (Moscow): “Apparently, many volumes have been written about the development of Russian-US relations. I announced the release of the Foreign Ministry’s yearend Diplomatic Bulletin and even showed it at the previous briefing. I believe that about 20 per cent of that bulletin was devoted to Russian-US relations, the way we see them, how we want them to develop, what we expect from Washington, what we are willing to do with the United States, the priority areas of cooperation, areas where our cooperation should be revived without delay and the areas where this can wait, at least for a limited time. This issue has been covered in interviews by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and in numerous statements made at all levels by representatives from various Russian agencies, political analysts and politicians, as well as officials from the legislative and executive authorities. We can talk about bilateral relations with a different degree of mastery, but we would like to start implementing our relationship at long last.

We provided our views on bilateral relations and the reasons for blocking them under President Obama. We said that we were willing to work with the new US administration, under President Trump. I don’t think we need to invent anything in this respect, because so much has been said before. Simply, we should start concrete practical work. We are ready for this.

You know that we always invite our American colleagues and diplomats to join bilateral or multilateral dialogues on issues in which the United States has traditionally played a big and active role, such as Syria, the consultations in Astana and many others. We expect Washington to formulate its foreign policy approaches in the form of a concept. We are ready for pragmatic and specific work on the principles that we have described many times.

The first daughter, Ivanka Trump, is a special adviser to President Donald Trump, but in a recent interview with “Fox & Friends” she claimed she avoids politics.

If what she has been doing is staying out, I would like to see what she thinks is staying in.

To start off with, she has been all over climate change.
“You know, I try to stay out of politics,” Ivanka told Ainsley Earhardt. She was responding to a question about whether she ever advised her father about his Twitter feed. “I feel blessed just being part of the ride from day one and before. But he did something pretty remarkable. But I don’t profess to be a political savant.”

“I’m more interested in being for something than against something,” she said.

Then she went on to explain that the two of them disagree at times… on politics. LOL!

“So naturally, there are areas where there is disagreement. We’re two different human beings. I think it’s normal to not have 100 percent aligned viewpoints on every issue. I don’t think anyone operates like that with a parent, or within the context of an administration,” she said. “And I think that all different viewpoints being at the table is a positive thing. And I think one of the things that, in this country we don’t have enough of, is dialogue.”

CNN gave an attempt to analyze, explaining she most likely was dogging the no-win Tweet question.

“What Ivanka is doing here is clear. She doesn’t want to answer questions about her dad’s Twitter feed. There’s no “good” answer for her. If she says she doesn’t like that he tweets as much as he does, that’s a big story. If she says she endorses every one of his tweets, then, well, she has to stand behind every one of his tweets — which she almost certainly doesn’t want to do.
So, she says “I try to stay out of politics,” which, if you think about it, doesn’t really make sense in terms of even fake-answering the question she’s being asked. It would be like if I was asked “Do you like lollipops,” and I responded: “I’m gluten-free.””
Maybe so. I tend to think she sees ‘politics’ as the gamesmanship that surrounds her, more than being inclusive of the issues.
Ivanka’s Trump’s official position within the White House is as a special assistant to the president, a job for which she is unpaid. Of course, she would have daddy’s ear whether she was in the White House of Antarctica.

Ivanka was formerly a registered Democrat in New York, and has been rather outspoken on her disagreement with her father on climate change. Wouldn’t you have liked to have been a fly on the wall during the Paris Accord discussions?

But Ivanka obviously did not sway daddy too much. If she was trying to stop the President from withdrawing from the Paris Accord, it did not work.