Ivanka Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention (Photo: YouTube)
Ivanka Trump’s in-laws may have turned down any future invitations to Mar-A-Lago. Vanity Fair reports that Jared Kushner’s parents hosted a private lunch at their Jersey Shore beach house on Sunday for Nikki Haley.
According to a source who informed Vanity Fair, at the event, Charles Kushner (Jared’s father) referred to Haley as potentially “the first female president.” Some of those in attendance made donations to Haley’s political action committee, Stand For America.
Haley is believed to be considering a presidential bid in 2024. The former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador said at a rally in New Jersey on Sunday evening that she had “a big decision to make. at the start of 23 “. This has been assumed by all to mean whether she is going to run or not.
Neither Charles Kushner nor Nikki Haley commented on Vanity Fair’s lunch report.
The alleged meeting came hours after Donald Trump hinted to Fox News that he was likely to run again in 2024.
“I know my answer but I can’t reveal it yet because it has to do with campaign funding and everything. But I absolutely know my answer, ”Trump told Maria Bartiromo, host of Sunday Morning Futures. “We’re going to do very well and people are going to be very happy. “
If Haley and Trump make a run for 2024, it remains to be seen who Ivanka and Jared will support (and yes, we appreciate that a lot can happen by then).
Ivanka and her husband are known to get along well with Haley. Last month on Father’s Day weekend, they were spotted visiting Haley and her husband, Michael Haley, at the Kiawah Island Beach Club in South Carolina. When Haley stepped down as US Ambassador to the United Nations in 2018, she praised Jared, especially for his role in trying to negotiate a Middle East peace plan. She described him as “a hidden genius that no one understands”.
The news of the Kushner’s family’s private lunch for Haley might not be right for Donald Trump. He pardoned Charles Kushner in January for his 2005 conviction for fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering (for which he served 14 months in prison before being released in 2006).
The news will only add to rumors that Ivanka has distanced himself from her father in recent months, as he continues to push the lie that he won last year’s election. She and Jared have chosen to go skiing in Aspen, Colorado in recent days and were notably absent from Donald Trump’s appearance on CPAC in Dallas this weekend.
Last month, two sources told CNN that Ivanka and Jared did not attend the usual spring and summer events in Mar-A-Lago, including Trump’s 75th birthday. One of them said that Ivanka wanted “a less complicated life for her family”.
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Others believe she can distance herself from the growing investigations into the Trump Empire. Her cousin, Mary Trump, told a podcast last week that she believed Ivanka could turn on her father if threatened with her own legal problems.
“She’s much less likely to stick around than Allen Weisselberg,” the bestselling author explained, referring to the Trump Organization’s CFO who was recently charged with 15 counts of evading nearly $ 2 million. in tax dollars over a 15-year period.
“Allen had a pretty cushy gig where he was. And I kind of think, in the grand scheme of things, as counterintuitive as it sounds, I think Ivanka has one, more to lose and, two, more to hang on to. Her husband’s family is legitimately very wealthy.
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