Frank Bruni: Was It Worth It, Jared and Ivanka?
Source: New York Times
Was It Worth It, Jared and Ivanka?
The glossiest grifters become Vuitton vagabonds.
By Frank Bruni
Opinion Columnist
Nov. 16, 2020
Just five short years ago Jared and Ivanka were dinner-party royalty here in Manhattan. It’s that kind of place. They had money, they had youth, they had celebrity. They were thin. I’m told that their manners were impeccable, so you’d never know that his father was an actual felon and her father a de facto one. Besides, you can’t hold family against someone, can you? We don’t choose how we’re born.
But from then on, we do make choices, and we’re accountable for those.
Jared and Ivanka are about to be held accountable.
They chose to tether their fortunes to her father’s, chose to go along for the ride, chose to see how far it could take them, because what if it took them all the way? What if Ivanka became the first female president, something that Manhattan acquaintances of hers assured me that she fantasized about, a giddy possibility that her father floated out loud.
With that crowning adventure — that climactic branding opportunity — dangling before her, she and Jared rationalized her father’s tantrums, fed his delusions, laundered his cruelty and kept her Instagram aglow with images from their fabulous new Washington life.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/jared-ivanka-trump.html
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it's character-defining, what you choose to do with money and power.....there really was never any doubt what these two grifters would do 
pinhead oiling up to a group of career diplomats as if she owned the place, and breathily asking: "Hey gang! Isn't my Daddy doing...um...like...you know...such a totally awesome job as President?"
