Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump plans to run for Senate
She is married to Eric Trump, the magnate's third son and politician, and has been an advisor to her father-in-law in the last two electoral campaigns. Now she wants to make the leap to politics on the front line.
Make way for a new media star (and future politician) in the Trump family. If we already knew the aspirations of Ivanka Trump, the right eye and daughter of Donald Trump, to become the future president of the United States, and Tiffany, the daughter that the businessman had with Marla Maples, is now another woman, Lara Trump ( before Lara Yunaska), the wife of the magnate's third child, who plans to run for the Senate in her home state of North Carolina in 2022 (when the House of Representatives will vote), according to The New York Times newspaper.
Lara Lea Yunaska (38) is not a stranger in American public life. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in October 1982, she is the daughter of Robert Luke Yunaska, a Pennsylvania boat builder, and Linda Ann Sykes, a homemaker. She has a younger brother, Kyle Robert Yunaska (a Finance and Business graduate who was appointed Chief of Staff of the US Office of Energy Policy in 2017), and her parents still live in the house overlooking the sea where Lara grew up. in Wrightsville Beach, a small town famous for being one of the vacation spots chosen by surfers from all over the United States to practice this sport.
Today's daughter-in-law of Donald Trump grew up in a middle-class family and in addition to highlighting in her studies at the Emsley A. Laney Institute, since she was a child she was always a great athlete and participated in different athletic competitions in her hometown. Her childhood dream was to become an Amazon and she prepared for it by taking horse riding lessons until one day she realized that it would only be a hobby for her and not her profession.
Presenter and pastry teacher
That's when she decided she wanted to become a sports journalist. She studied Communication at North Carolina State University and after graduating in 2005 began working as an intern at a local North Carolina television. Shortly after, she moved to New York to take a course at the French Culinary Institute, one of the most prestigious cooking schools in the country in which Lara took a pastry course, another of her great passions and the one that allows her to develop your most creative side. There she founded her own pastry business called Lara Lea Confections and according to what has been told years later, she is always in charge of cooking her husband Eric's birthday cakes. For a time she also worked as a personal trainer.
Despite residing in the city of skyscrapers since then, Lara believes that North Carolina is still her home, as her family and some of her best friends still live there. In 2012, Lara was hired as script coordinator for CBS's Inside Edition news program, the third largest television network in the world, behind only the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and the Brazilian Rede Globo, and a a year later she was promoted to occupy the position of associate producer on the same channel. There she worked until 2016, the year in which she decided to leave her television career to dedicate herself entirely to advising her father-in-law in the electoral campaign.
Great defender of her father-in-law
In March of that year, she was hired as a senior advisor at Giles-Parscale, a Texas-based marketing company that has had business with the Trumps since 2011 and has been actively involved in the magnate's electoral career in both the 2016 elections and the elections. of this same year.
Lara has participated in several of Trump's rallies both in Virginia and in her homeland, North Carolina, in different meetings on female empowerment and was a producer and fundraiser for President Trump as well as a spokesperson for Real News Update, a Weekly webcast launched on July 30, 2017 to support Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
“He is a man who first of all loves his family. He's a great storyteller and loves long family dinners where we laugh a lot. He has a big heart and is an incredibly loyal person who never forgets those who have been with him. I feel very fortunate to have a man like him as a father-in-law, ”Lara has said repeatedly.
Fell in love with Eric at dinner
The love story between Lara and Eric Trump (36), third son of the billionaire tycoon and Ivana Trump, is not the story of a true crush. According to the former presenter herself to StarNews, their first meeting in 2008 was totally accidental. “It was in New York. We had gone out for a drink with friends and we met at the same time and in the same place. It took her three months to call me and ask for an appointment, "she explained. “I am a girl from North Carolina who has nothing to do with the business world. We meet for dinner and talk for hours before ordering dinner. It was the best date of my life. I just fell in love with a boy. Something clicked on us… and it just worked, ”he added.
Eric Trump attended Trinity College and later carried on the family tradition and graduated with honors in Finance and Management from Georgetown University. Along with his older brothers, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, he holds the position of Executive Vice President of Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization, directing new project acquisitions and development around the world. He also owns a vineyard and a winery in Virginia under the Trump Winery label and in 2006 created the Eric Trump Foundation, which is responsible for raising funds for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
A great wedding in Florida
Five years after meeting, Eric proposed to Lara and the wedding did not take place until November 8, 2014. The ceremony, which had 400 guests from the world of business and entertainment, lasted three days and even had five cakes. nuptials, took place in Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach (Florida), a town where the Trumps spend the summer and where they have a spectacular mansion with 118 rooms and an exclusive golf club where each member pays 70,000 euros of registration fee and 4,000 more each year.
Two weeks before the wedding, Lara suffered an accident on the back of her horse and broke both wrists, but it was not an impediment to look radiant on her most important day thanks to a design by Vera Wang in which they had to add a kind of wristbands to cover the bandages that he still had to wear on prescription. Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, was the liaison officer and the wedding planner, Lynne Patton, now heads the New York City Department of Housing and Development of public housing. The honeymoon was enjoyed in Africa and France.
The Trump-Yunaska, who live in Westchester (New York), expanded the family on September 12, 2017 with the birth of their first son, Eric Luke, and two years later, on August 19, 2019 with the arrival of the little Carolina Dorothy to their lives.
The controversies surrounding marriage
Despite showing many moments of their day to day on their social networks and radiating happiness on all four sides, the marriage has been involved in more than one controversy. In June three years ago, Forbes reported an alleged diversion of funds from Eric Trump's charity to finance Trump's campaign, prompting both Eric and Lara to leave the foundation shortly afterward to rename it Curetivity.
That same year, when the ban on importing African elephant hunting trophies was lifted, some photos came to light in which Eric posed holding the severed tail of this mammal and in another hugging a dead leopard. Curiously, his wife has been a great defender of animal rights for years and participates in the Beagle Freedom Project organization. “I hope to create a positive impact in society with this cause that touches my heart and to use my voice to encourage people to adopt dogs in shelters,” Lara explained. The couple have two adopted beagle dogs named Charlie and Ben.
