Ivanka Trump and her husband have a fortune of several hundred million dollars
The president's daughter and son-in-law continue to receive money from their investments while in government positions.
Donald Trump's presidency could still face ethical questions. Indeed, according to documents released by the White House, the daughter of US President Donald Trump, Ivanka, and her husband Jared Kushner have retained investments in real estate and business to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while 'they hold government positions. Since Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November, his vast financial empire has come under scrutiny by ethics experts, who believe it poses serious conflict of interest issues and raises many questions about it. lack of a clear line between his business - and those of his family - and his political functions.
Documents released Friday show Ivanka and her husband, both of whom are close official advisers to the president, still earn income from their assets worth between $ 240 million and $ 740 million. Ivanka Trump, who announced a few days ago that she would become an unpaid adviser to the American president, will keep her shares, estimated between five and 25 million dollars, in the Trump International Hotel, located a few blocks from the White House. Between January 2016 and March 2017, these shares brought him between one and five million dollars, according to the documents. Observers have expressed concern that lobby groups or foreign governments may move into the luxurious Trump Hotel in Washington to reconcile the administration's good graces.
Richest administration in history
Jared Kushner was recently appointed by his Republican father-in-law to head a White House office tasked with using ideas from the corporate world to downsize government, according to the Washington Post. Jared Kushner, 36, is one of Donald Trump's main advisers and has a lot of influence on domestic and international matters. He left high-level positions in more than 200 entities linked to his family's real estate empire, according to presidency documents, but he will continue to rake in profits from many family holdings.
Documents released by the White House also describe the holdings of Gary Cohn, the former chairman of the powerful Goldman Sachs bank who heads the National Economic Council (NEC), and Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's strategic advisor. Gary Cohn reported holdings worth between $ 253 million and $ 611 million, and income of up to $ 77 million in 2016. Steve Bannon's largest holdings are his private consulting firm, valued between 5 and 25 million dollars. He said he was paid $ 191,000 as a consultant from the pro-Trump news site Breitbart News he previously ran, and over $ 125,000 for working at data firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign. The Trump administration is considered one of the richest in US history. The Bloomberg agency estimates that the combined fortunes of its ministers and senior officials are some $ 12 billion.
