Ivanka Trump almost ran for vice presidency
In 2016, when he had already won the candidacy of his party for the Republican Party, Donald Trump repeatedly raised with his subordinates the possibility of electing his daughter Ivanka as number two in the elections. Eventually he was dissuaded by his own advisers, but the president still signed his daughter as a special adviser, with an office in the White House but without salary, after years of close business relationship during which the president also used her for his exercises. of fiscal engineering.
The details of that maneuver by Trump to configure a candidacy of two people with the same last name, father and daughter, are now revealed by the one who was deputy director of his campaign, Rick Gates, who has written a new book on the rise of the current president in 2016. Gates is no longer connected with the campaign, but he continues to support Trump and maintains that he is one of the best presidents in US history.
Two polls
Trump insisted so much that he defined his daughter as "bright, intelligent and beautiful," that his campaign team conducted voter polls on two occasions. Although the results were not overly positive, the candidate did not give up on that idea until his own daughter intervened and got out of the way, according to Gates in the book. At the time, Ivanka Trump was 34 years old, and her experience was limited to a brief modeling career, consulting with her father, and a women's clothing company within the family conglomerate.
Now, the tax returns of Trump to which the newspaper "The New York Times" has had access also reveal that the president used his daughter for his fiscal engineering maneuvers. According to those tax documents, Ivanka was paid $ 747,000 (640,000 euros) by the family business in one year for consulting work for two real estate projects, and then she presented the expense as tax deductions.
Of the president's five children, Ivanka Trump is the one who has remained closest to him during his presidency, advising him along with her husband, Jared Kushner, in his government duties and even representing him at meetings and official events. . Her father often brags about her, as when he repeats the inflated figure that she alone has created 14 million jobs, if he really explains what he means.
Now, Ivanka Trump is immersed in a frenzy of rallies, many more than those given by the first lady herself, Melania Trump. The president's eldest daughter - he has another from her second marriage - is visiting key states to ask for the vote, participating mostly in meetings and visits to female voters.
Gates's book detailing Trump's drive to make his daughter vice president is titled "Cursed Game," and will be published on October 13. The Trump campaign has denied its disclosures about the president's daughter.
