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IVANKA TRUMP BACKED FLYNN AND MANAFORT. SHE DISCUSSED FIRING COMEY. HOW HAS SHE EVADED MUELLERS INVESTIGATION?Hannah Seligson
March 10 2018, 8:59 a.m.
IVANKA TRUMP IS the ghost of Special Counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation: She is connected, either directly or tangentially, to events at the heart of the probe, yet all but invisible to the public.
But as Muellers investigation broadens, the so-called first daughter is becoming a long overdue part of the bigger story of alleged corruption at the Trump Organization. Last week, we learned that the FBI is looking into the financing and negotiations surrounding her involvement with Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, which is home to an Ivanka Trump-branded spa. That inquiry may be unrelated to the Russia probe, but it should draw scrutiny to Ivankas business dealings and how they relate to her fathers political rise.
The mainstream press frequently describes Ivanka who recently denied any collusion between Donald Trumps campaign and the Russians as the head of a fashion company. Yet she was also a top executive at the Trump Organization and a hard-charging, and often quite effective, dealmaker for the real estate development company. Despite her entrenched role in the West Wing and status as one of her fathers most trusted advisers and emissaries on matters as wide-ranging as G-20 and the Winter Olympics, her identity carefully curated on social media and through her press operation hinges on issues such as female entrepreneurship, maternal leave, and being a mother to highly Instagrammable kids. Its a persona that renders the media establishment and broader public largely incapable of considering that she might be a key player in the Trump-Russia narrative.
The first daughter has not merely developed some of her fathers Teflon quality; sexism and gender stereotypes have also worked in her favor. After all, who would suspect an ex-model, mother of three, and public champion of working women to be pulling the levers of power, calling the shots, and working alongside people like Felix Sater, a Russian-American businessman with reputed mob ties who served jail time for stabbing a man in a bar fight?
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Takket
(21,563 posts)Mueller covers every base.
JI7
(89,248 posts)So maybe they have to be careful and you don't want cases thrown out over procedures/technicalities .
But they are looking into some business deal of hers.
Stinky The Clown
(67,792 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)and they have been interviewed by Senate committee. In January, Sen Whitehouse and Sen. Blumenthal recommended that Don Jr's Senate testimony be made available to Mueller because it appeared Jr. had lied.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Mueller knows exactly what he is doing, and he is very carefully going up the chain, step by step, and making sure all of the pieces are in place before going forward with the next step.
She is almost certainly on his list, it just isn't her turn (yet) to have a pleasant little sit-down for a revealing chat with his investigators. I think that Jared and Ivanka will most likely be some of the last people to be interviewed, since they are SO close to the final target and know so much about the internal workings of the various crime syndicates (a.k.a. tRump-controlled businesses).
The questions that Mueller's team will be able to ask them will let them know, in no uncertain terms, that he has enough firm evidence to send the whole bunch to prison for a long, long time. It will be up to them to decide how advantageous it would be at any given point in time to turn over everything they know that the the old bastard did and be rid of him in their lives in exchange for leniency in their own sentences, with an aim of possibly getting to see daylight without bars in the way sometime before their 3 kids finish graduate school.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Would not necessarily apply to testimony against Trump, of course, but as tied up all of them are in this case, that might be a complicating issue.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Can you imagine Ivanka telling the Mueller team that one or more of their questions was inappropriate???
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)It should be pretty clear by now that we know only the information Mueller wants us to know.