"THE STIGMA OF HER LAST NAME IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ERASE": THE FINAL CHAPTER OF IVANKA AND HER HUSBAND IN WASHINGTON SCORES HER FUTURE
After Trump fans stormed the Capitol, the remaining equity of Ivanka and her husband has evaporated. An ex-friend of hers points out: "How can you associate with the worst and most toxic people in US history?"
Before the violent protest of a mass that stormed the Capitol building in the United States emerged, the Trump family gathered in a white tent, standing around monitors broadcasting images of the crowd waiting to be driven into delirium. The Trumps continued with the strategy, assuring the crowd that the elections had been rigged and that justices who did not support their request to legitimately invalidate the votes cast would pay for it. But first, Donald Trump Jr. broadcast live images of the family, animated and united watching the anger of the masses. In the center of the group, inches from the screens, was President Donald Trump. And next to her was Ivanka Trump, who wore a long black coat to match her father's.
Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have spent the past five years performing a prim dance avoiding reality, instead revolving around their own parallel universe. When it suited them, they were the voices the president trusted the most, with a presence and responsibilities of great stature. When it was less advantageous to them, they disappeared from sight. As for his influence, well, there were just a few things they could do or say. After all, it was about 'dad'.
The weight of Wednesday's insurrection, and the images that placed Ivanka directly next to her father, froze that ice dance. Ivanka tweeted about the events throughout that same Wednesday, albeit later, referring to members of the violent movement as "American patriots." (She then she simply deleted the tweet and asked people to stop the violence). Kushner, as usual, said nothing in public. (He flew from a summit in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning; his spokeswoman did not confirm whether he returned to the White House - unusual not to confirm). If there was any outrage on the part of the couple, it was invisible. Most likely, people who know them say there was nothing. As one of his friends explains “the people who have maintained their friendship with Jared and Ivanka were looking for evidence that they were not accomplices, but they did not find any”.
They have no friends left, but until a few days ago, there were a lot of people who would have tolerated Ivanka and Jared; or at least they would have bit their tongue: people who have known them for years, people who would put up with it and do business with them, people who don't care much about the Trump administration but who probably didn't mind the tax cut. , deregulation, proximity to power. As such, they kept their disdain quiet, at least beyond their most immediate social circles.
That changed on Wednesday. Karlie Kloss, who is married to Kushner's brother, for example, hadn't said much about her brothers-in-law publicly or revealed anything about her conversations with them. And yes, she supported Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton publicly. But she had been careful not to go past her, even though the Kushners have never been particularly kind to her, according to many people who are familiar with her relationship. On Wednesday, Kloss tweeted that refusing to accept the election results and inciting violence was "anti-American." When a Twitter user responded that she tried to say that to her brothers-in-law, she replied, "I've tried."
Another long-time friend of Kushner's, Bob Sommer, who represented the Kushner family's family businesses and was president of The New York Observer, the outlet once owned by Jared Kushner, sent a message to Jared's father, Charles, and Ivanka, expressing outrage at what he was seeing. According to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of it, Sommer sent Charles an email urging him to "get Trump to be an American." He also sent Ivanka a message telling her that he was horrified at "having attended your wedding," according to the same newspaper.
Other friends of the couple told Vanity Fair on Thursday that many people who had never wanted to get into politics were getting wet. “It seems like everyone on the Upper East Side is writing to me today. Suddenly everyone wants to join the resistance, ”says the former friend.
Sommer and Kloss and the Uptown Resistance are unlikely to have become aware at the last minute. Instead, the depravity of what happened on Wednesday and the role of the couple in it all have officially turned them into radioactive people. For the past four years, it was easier to say nothing. Last week he could have written a piece on Kushner's role in the Middle East peace process and Ivanka's positioning for a future in Florida politics. But on Wednesday afternoon, all of that changed. Having any association with them has suddenly become a very difficult option. "People used to fear Trump's wrath," another former friend of Ivanka tells me. “Now they fear joining them. the weight of your family is almost impossible to shed. How can you associate with the worst and most toxic people in American history? (Even before this week, things were starting to change. According to a spokesperson, investor Aryeh Bourkoff, who has been close to Kushner, asked The New York Times' Ben Smith not to mention his closeness to Kushner in a recent column on Washington coverage).
It's the same logic that caused Facebook and Twitter to suspend Trump's accounts for a week - indefinitely now - and the same logic that led his cabinet officials, who remained silent during the most toxic moments, to resign or make statements. against him: they stopped being afraid of him. They realized that their actions of the past week had marked his fate: out of power, miserable, and devalued far from fixing things. The Democrats had won fairly and obviously. And Trump, who could have walked away muttering it was unfair but with a political and media future before him, couldn't contain his anger long enough to make that last.
His daughter and his son-in-law lost their power along with him. It didn't help that they looked like cowards when everything was on fire, the people around them noticed. Ivanka appeared to have been trying to launch her political career, campaigning in Georgia and uploading old photos of her holding vegetables in Florida, they say. "The world of finance knew that Jared was in the Middle East when all this was happening, so his selfishness was also exposed," one person confesses to me. “The circulating narrative is that Jared & co. he plans to buy all the distressed assets caused by the pandemic that he created, like a fucking oligarch. "
From an optical point of view, it doesn't help either that a moving truck was seen Thursday morning outside his home in Kalorama, Washington. A man was loading boxes from the garage onto an orange truck with "College Hunks Hauling Junk" (the name of an American moving company) printed on the side. No spokesperson has been contacted to comment on the matter.
