Ivanka Trump, a Russian scandal and her multi-billion dollar social network
It seems that the controversy over President Donald Trump's allies with questionable contacts with Russian officials is not over. And this past week, someone very close to Trump was caught in it.
The New Yorker has revealed that Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband and loyal Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, was present at an undisclosed meeting in December between the recently ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States.
The meeting was held at the Trump Tower and lasted for 10 minutes - a briefing to launch a "line of communication" between officials who will join the Russian government, White House said.
Even though the meeting was completely normal, Kushner's name has joined the list of others in Trump's circle, including his son Donald Trump Jr., with whom he had contacts or relations with Russian officials.
Some of those on this list are already facing the consequences. Flynn was fired from his job as a national security adviser after misleading management in his discussions with Kislyak. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions, who is facing calls from Democrats for his resignation, has agreed to withdraw from an investigation into Trump's Russia-Russia relations after reports emerged that he had spoken privately with the ambassador.
Not on this list is Ivanka Trump, the president's favorite child and her representative on active women's affairs. Probably a factor as to why they're doing so poorly in Trump's campaign and still have a legitimate position on his father's White House.
But does his lack of an official qualification mean that he is unfamiliar with the internal functioning of the campaign or is unfamiliar with his overseas business communication network? Along with her husband, she is described as one of her father's most trusted advisers. And, like his brother Donald Jr., he was vice president of Trump’s father’s organization before he decided to move with his family to Washington DC.
In addition, reports from various stores about the continuation of his father's campaign and the change show that he has an interesting connection of his own in Russia.
In fact, Ivanka has even gone so far as to announce the links, including his close friendship with the wife of the Russian oligarch and Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife, Wendi Deng, who was once reportedly in love with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Maybe Ivanka feels good about tweeting or asking for media photos with these people because your contacts are just human. And again, spreading this friendship will not do much to silence Marie Antoinette's comparison because it focuses on what appears to be a billionaire network celebrating, among other things, holidays on luxury boats of different people.
Broadcasting these connections comes out of no doubt politically as his father, family and Trump administration are facing growing questions about conflicts of interest and their performance with the country that has disrupted our presidential election.
Either Ivanka is either inexperienced, deaf to “light,” or an intellectual designer. Or maybe he doesn’t care that his fellow Americans are worried about the Russian issue. Maybe you say, I’m Ivanka Trump and I do what I want, and she’s stepping on us when she writes about this communication on social media.
Whatever Ivanka thinks at the moment, here is a summary of how her social network can bring her name to the Russian scandal.
Jared's business partnership
Ivanka's 36-year-old husband, with his family's multimillion-dollar business, has strong connections with Russian business interests, according to the New York Times, including investments from billionaire technology investor Yuri Milner in the investment company.
The wife of the oligarch
Ivanka is a good friend of Dasha Zhukova, the art collector of the oligarch Roman Abramovich, one of the richest people in Russia. Abramovich is not just the owner of the Chelsea football team; is reportedly a member of Putin's internal cycle.
In early 2016, the Daily Mail reported that Abramovich had given Putin a $ 35 million cruise ship. A Russian official, who owned a state-owned shipping company, told the Daily Mail that he was monitoring Abramovich's transfer of the 187-meter Olympia, a ten-guest hotel, to Putin.
In September, Ivanka and Jared were photographed with Zhukova in VIP seats, watching the U.S. Open tennis finals. Also in the box were Wendi Deng, a close friend of both Zhukova and Ivanka, and billionaire entertainment director David Geffen and Princess Beatrice of York.
The act of vanka's highest friendship towards Zhukova came when he invited her to be a guest at her father's inauguration ceremony over the weekend, she wrote on Twitter to senior Politico writer Jake Sherman on January 19.
It should be noted that Zhukova may not share his friend's political views - as he allegedly donated $ 2,700 to the 2015 Democratic Alliance candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Ivanka and Jared wanted the controversial Paul Manafort boss
During the one week in August, Trump and his close friends found themselves in a hot seat because of their apparent friendship with Russia and Russian interests.
On Sunday, August 14, the New York Times published an explosive report on a $ 12.7 million secret payment to Trump's then-campaign chairman and former strategist Paul Manafort. The $ 12.7 million came from a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine.
Manafort, by the way, once served as a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. He also owed his powerful position in the Trump campaign to Ivanka and Jared, according to Vanity Fair.
Trump’s first campaign leader Cory Lewandowski was fired after allegedly trying to buy bad news about Jared from the media. Ivanka reportedly threatened his father that he would leave the campaign if Lewandowski stayed, and he and Jared pushed for Manafort to be brought in to bring more technology to the campaign.
But Manafort lasted less than two months. Four days after the August 14 Times report, Manafort resigned.
His summer vacation with Wendi Deng, Putin's rumored girlfriend
In a church where things hit a fan due to Russia's strained relations with Manafort, Ivanka and Jared went on a European holiday. That trip may have involved some Adriatic boat trips but it certainly included sightseeing in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Deng.
On the same Sunday that The Times published its Manafort disclosure, Ivanka posted a photo of herself with Deng on Instagram. The two look slim, rich and casually casual as they hug and pose for a photo, with a beautiful old beach town as their backyard.
There are a number of ways that political viewers find this image interesting, or problematic. At Emily Jane Fox at the Vanity Fair, Ivanka showed off the final act of chemical separation by posting. He said Ivanka was celebrating his friendship with Deng as his father's campaign "has many fires," including reports on Russia's relations with Manafort.
Fox and others took over Deng's personal relationship with Putin. In March 2016, Us magazine first published rumors that the newly divorced Deng was in love with a newly divorced Russian dictator, valued at about $ 200 million (although he claims to be pulling the $ 100,000 annual salary as Russian President).
As Vanity Fair noted, it is unclear how accurate the US report was, even though the tabloid said the rumors were circulating among a certain billionaire who had been set for some time.
Also, Putin's best friend Abramovich made a comeo in the story with Us saying Deng was seen boarding an oligarch's St Barths-docked boat.
Other than that, not everything is unexpected for Ivanka to go on a jet holiday with Deng. Their friendship is strained, and Deng reportedly was responsible for reuniting Ivanka and Jared after their 2008 split due to religious differences.
The New Yorker August 2016 profile of Jared and Ivanka who wish to explain how Deng - and another boatman - took part in the reconciliation. Back when Deng was still married to King Corp. Murdoch, invited Jared to spend the weekend on the Murdoch family boat, without informing him that Ivanka would be there. True love prevailed: Ivanka later converted to Judaism, and the two were married in 2009.
Deng has denied having an affair with Putin in a Vogue magazine profile published just before he and Ivanka went on a tour of Dubrovnik. "I have never met Putin," Deng told Vogue.
So maybe Deng was telling the truth, and he had never been Putin's girlfriend. But rumors were swirling fast and angry enough in August that it was probably not "politically motivated" for Ivanka to spread his contacts with Deng, Fox said.
The only person who has a habit of building mental walls between himself and his father's mistakes can declare a European holiday with a friend whose organization will not look good with his father's campaign, Fox said.
But there is another idea, too, that Ivanka knew exactly what she was doing when posting that photo. It could be his way of putting his thumb in the nose of people who do not like his father or who think they are making a lot of noise about the Russian issue.
Currently, the FBI's intelligence committees and the House and the Senate, as well as the Senate Armed Services Committee, are investigating Russia's electoral interference.
But when Ivanka was concerned about Russia's emerging storm, or her father's latest twitter rant, accusing Obama's administration of touching her phone, she has not agreed since Sunday afternoon.
That's when he returned to the room-building form by posting this amazing moment of golf for his young children on Instagram, which read "Sunday in Palm Beach!" Yes, Marie Antoinette’s comparisons are starting to come in handy.
