HEIR STRIKE
Now Dems are attacking Trump’s kids
Brooklyn lawyer Daniel Jennings Goldstein (left) “chased” and “harassed” Ivanka Trump on a JetBlue flight out of JFK yesterday, and his husband proudly tweeted this picture of the confrontation — causing a backlash online. “Your father is ruining our country!” Goldstein yelled at Trump, who was sitting with her husband and three young children.
A Brooklyn lawyer vented his antiDonald Trump fury on daughter Ivanka on Thursday, lashing into the future first daughter as she sat with her husband and children aboard a JetBlue flight on the JFK tarmac.
The turbulence by avowed Hillary Clinton supporter Daniel Jennings Goldstein was so over the top that JetBlue staff escorted him, his Hunter College-professor husband and their baby boy off the California-bound plane prior to takeoff.
“Your father is ruining the country!” Goldstein, 42, shouted at Ivanka Trump as she sat with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three kids in the main cabin, according to TMZ.
“Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private,” Goldstein reportedly shouted.
Trump had her Secret Service escort with her on the plane, but the agents deferred to JetBlue.
The airline later issued a statement explaining that it’s company policy to remove customers who are “causing conflict on the aircraft.”
The plane was heading to San Francisco so the Trump-Kushner clan could catch a connecting flight to Hawaii, where the family has a vacation place, ABC News reported.
When they arrived in California, the family transferred to a private plane for the rest of their trip, TMZ reported.
Goldstein, husband Matthew Lasner — both registered Democrats — and their son were offered a subsequent flight, airline officials said.
Goldstein had planned to “harass” the daughter-in-chief as soon as the couple set eyes on her at JFK Airport’s Terminal 5, according to his husband’s own tweets.
“Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5, flying commercial,” Lasner, a professor at Hunter College, tweeted before
boarding the morning flight. “My husband chasing them down to harass them.”
But Lasner backed off the harassment mention in another tweet on the since-deleted account.
“Ivanka and Jared on our flight. My husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone, JetBlue staff overheard, and they kicked us off the plane,” Lasner huffed in the tweet.
The couple’s social-media accounts were then quickly pulled down.
Goldstein’s three most recent Facebook posts hyped a trio of failed post-election, pro-Clinton escapades: a Change.org petition to encourage the Electoral College to make Clinton president and two others promoting recounts in North Carolina, Arizona and Florida.
Fellow flight passenger Marc Scheff, a Brooklynbased illustrator who was seated in the row in front of Ivanka, wrote later Thursday on Facebook that Goldstein “didn’t accost [Trump] directly.”
“When he got on and saw her sitting behind me, he said, ‘ oh my god. This is a nightmare,’ ” Scheff wrote of Goldstein, describing him as “visibly shaking.”
“He said ‘they ruin the country now they ruin our flight!’ ” Scheff wrote, noting that the flight had been delayed due to Trump’s boarding. “He did not yell,” Scheff wrote. “He was also not what I would describe as calm. Agitated, maybe. his husband behind him was very calm,” Scheff posted of Lasner, who teaches urban studies at Hunter.
“I overheard Ivanka say to [JetBlue staff] ‘I don’t want to make this a thing.’ My assessment is that she was happy to let the man take his seat,” Scheff added.
“She handled the situation calmly and with class,” he said.