Ivanka Trump Is Plotting Her Return To The White House
Ivanka Trump is making moves to rejoin the Trump campaign and return to the White House if he wins, and that is a big problem for the future of democracy.
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Ivanka Trump Puts The Wheels In Motion To Return To The White House
All the media talk about Ivanka Trump breaking with her father and distancing from her father turned out not to be true, The daughter of the ex-president has always played the willing to assist corporate media with PR and spin that suggested that she was different from her father, or a stabilizing and moderating force,
The truth which was reported by Tara Palmeri at Puck paints a much different picture:
Now, with the campaign in high gear, Ivanka is “warming to the idea of trying to be helpful” again, I’m told by a person familiar with her thinking. “[She’s] privately not ruling out having some sort of role,” this person continued. “She’s not like ‘Hell no’ anymore.”
The role itself, and her potential involvement with the campaign, remains unclear.
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Ivanka has been quietly surveying members of her inner circle about when it might make sense to re-engage with the campaign—and even whether to take a job in the administration if Trump wins.
She’s been advised to wait until the Republican convention, in mid-July, so as to avoid the news cycle around her father’s trial—the first of four currently on the docket. But the chatter surrounding her inquiries appears to be a trial balloon, of sorts, telegraphing what is likely to be a gradual re-entry into Trump’s political orbit. “After a longstanding position of ruling it out, she’s more open to it,” said the source familiar with her thinking. “It’s getting more real, it’s revving up.”
It is one of the worst-kept secrets in the world of politics that Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump don’t like each other and are rivals to be the power beside Trump. However, the return of Ivanka Trump is an important signal in the fight for democracy, as we will talk about below.
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