Ivanka Trump has kept a low profile in recent weeks and that’s probably because she knows her life is about to be ruined.
After being kicked out of Washington, DC, the former first daughter moved to Miami, where she and her husband rented a $ 40,000 / month luxury condo while they build their dreamy $ 31 million mansion. .
For a long time, not a day has gone by without her being photographed by the paparazzi walking along the beach, exercising, running errands or sunbathing on her balcony overlooking the ocean. Then a few weeks ago she just sort of…. faded away. And now we might know why.
According to Donald Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, Ivanka has as many, if not more, problems than Trump organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who has just been charged with 15 counts of evading nearly $ 2 million in taxes over 15 years.
The charges include conspiracy, criminal tax evasion, falsification of business records and robbery, among others.
Speaking to Jim Acosta on CNN this weekend, D’Antonio explained that the crimes Weisselberg is accused of are no different from what Ivanka allegedly committed while working at her father’s company.
“The other person who I think is in danger is Ivanka Trump,” he explained. “One of the things Allen Weisselberg has trouble with is taking money as an entrepreneur and then claiming self-employment status so that he can get some of the pension benefits that the taxes allow for the self-employed. “
“Well, we know Ivanka Trump received some pretty large sums paid to her as non-employee compensation. This freed the Trump Organization from paying some of its taxes, and it put it in a status that I think the IRS would have a lot of questions about. So these people don’t know how to play the game directly. I think everything they do is crooked.
D’Antonio also said Donald Trump was only responsible for what happened to his business and his family when he “invited it all”.
“He ran for president in the first place as a publicity stunt,” he said. “He wanted to increase his visibility and increase his results. “
“He never intended to be elected president, and then when he became president, reporters started digging into the facts of his wealth, which has always been in doubt, and then of the people he really hurt, which he crushed over years of leaking documents. to the New York Times which revealed the truth about his taxes to the world. Faced with all this, prosecutors had no choice but to take it out on him. “
D’Antonio said Trump was “getting what he deserved” after years of recklessness and blatant disregard for the law.
Meanwhile, former DA Deputy Cynthia Alksne says she believes Ivanka may be the next member of Trump’s inner circle to face criminal charges. Speaking to MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, she said prosectors’ efforts to nail Weisselberg suggest “they’re trying to tell others you have to go back because we’ve got everything.”
“Usually or quite often, New York State indictments aren’t that detailed,” she said. “Prosecutors have gone to incredible lengths to show Weisselberg: ‘We have everything we need. “”
Menendez went on to say that if she was in charge of the investigation into the Trump organization, “I would focus her on the children.”
“We’ve heard a lot of these reports about Ivanka Trump getting consulting fees, or things that she may or may not have done. It looks like the following place.
Last week Ivanka’s cousin Mary Trump told Rachel Maddow that she believed Ivanka and her siblings Don Jr. and Eric would turn on their father if and when the moment came, since that is exactly what his family members do.
“His relationship with them, and their relationship with him, is entirely transactional and conditional,” she said. “They’re not going to risk anything for him, just like he wouldn’t risk anything for them.”
“As far as Donald is concerned, they have what they have because of him and they should be prepared to take any hit they are going to take,” she added. “I don’t think my cousins would exercise that kind of loyalty to him.”
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Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
