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McClatchy, Getty, AP Photos: Ivanka Trump ‘Will Be Donald’s Closest Adviser’
McClatchy, Getty, AP Photos, US Weekly Magazine ^ | January 18, 2017 @ 8:10 | By Us Weekly Staff

Posted on 01/18/2017 4:19:23 PM PST by drewh

Ivanka Trump is going to be a huge deal in Washington. While a federal anti-nepotism law could prevent the 35-year-old from holding an official White House position after her father, Donald, assumes his role as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, “unofficially,” an Ivanka source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly, “she will be Donald’s closest adviser.”

Over the course of her father’s successful campaign, the husky-voiced Seventeen cover model turned Trump Organization executive evolved into his most trusted consultant. “He looks to Ivanka for advice and consultation on almost everything,” notes a close Ivanka insider.

That relationship will continue, as the real estate tycoon, 70, assumes his role as commander in chief. While brother Donald Jr., 39, and Eric, 33, remain in New York City to run the Trump business empire, Ivanka is moving to the nation’s capital, where her husband, Jared Kushner, 36, will act as one of Donald’s senior advisers.

The mom of Arabella, 5, Joseph, 3, and Theodore, 9 months, could take a similar role. She announced January 11 that she’s taking a leave of absence from both the Trump Organization and her eponymous apparel and accessories firm. “Donald made the best deal for his daughter,” family friend and Avenue magazine columnist R. Couri Hay tells Us. “The boys get the multibillion-dollar company, and Ivanka gets Washington.”

Along with providing advice, the University of Pennyslvania grad could act as her dad’s buffer. Insiders say the polished businesswoman has a knack for calming her father, infamous for his hot temper and middle-of-the-night Twitter rants. “She balances him out,” explains an Ivanka source. “She learned to keep her mouth shut and just let him get it off his chest. She then rationally explains other points of view.”

Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump Fred Watkins/ABC via Getty Images As first daughter, she’ll push a female-centric agenda. “I’m a huge advocate for women and women’s issues, like child care,” Ivanka, whose website IvankaTrump.com includes a series of profiles called #WomenWhoWork, told Harper’s Bazaar in August. She’s already helped her dad craft a policy proposal that seeks to provide paid maternity leave and make child care expenses tax deductible. As she explains to the mag, “In half the country, the cost of child care exceeds the cost of housing.”

With stepmother Melania choosing to reside at the family’s NYC triplex penthouse until half brother Barron, 10, finishes the school year, Ivanka will also assume some first-lady responsibilities. “She will be at State functions,” Hay tells Us. “I think Melania is very happy to share those responsibilities with Ivanka.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: flotus; ivanka; ivankatrumpadm; trumpchildren; trumpchildrenphoto; trumpfamily; trumptransition
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To: piytar

I tried French but kept getting it jumbled with the Spanish I took for 4 years - and have now mostly forgotten.


61 posted on 01/18/2017 5:46:39 PM PST by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t really know much about the Trumps and am not a cheerleader. I hope like heck he does the right thing. I’d hate to have to say...well, I guess he’s better than Hillary. Lol
I don’t trust any of them and think we have to be on guard with all of them. Donald Trump included.
But that’s just me.


62 posted on 01/18/2017 5:56:45 PM PST by sheana
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To: Levigrovrs

However as one of the old saying goes, contributed to Bismarck...”By the time you are twenty and you are not a liberal you have no heart. But if you are still a liberal going on thirty you have no brains” Well give her some time to change as she may figure it out yet as in the long run socialism, what liberalism is known for world wide never made the grades in the long run.


63 posted on 01/18/2017 5:59:26 PM PST by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: dp0622

Hear hear

But this is US Weekly


64 posted on 01/18/2017 6:03:34 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Bigg Red

Sounds good but reality bites.


65 posted on 01/18/2017 6:14:58 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Aria
There is so much garbage out there it’s unbelievable...and too many people fall for it.

Correct. There is a lot of garbage - a lot of it photoshopped fakes. There is absolutely no porn of Ivanka. The only revealing pictures are of her on the fashion walkway with wardrobe mishaps where cleavage was unintentionally revealed, but that happens with many models.

66 posted on 01/18/2017 6:22:51 PM PST by roadcat
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To: drewh

Thank you!

DJT will make Ronnie proud.


67 posted on 01/18/2017 6:23:11 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dp0622

I hear ya, can’t argue with facts.


68 posted on 01/18/2017 6:29:39 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: stars & stripes forever

She can tell me what to do :)


69 posted on 01/18/2017 6:31:25 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ilovesarah2012; All

Imagine if we were “allowed” to keep what we earn.

That’s what our Founding Fathers not only imagined, but began our country with NO income tax at all.

It is immoral to tax a man’s wages.

It is immoral to further punish citizens by making them pay higher percentages if they are successful. The progressive income tax is a horrendous, immoral concept.

It is even more immoral for a government to use the power of the income tax to shape and mold their citizens behaviors, based upon “rewards”, aka “tax credits”.

DJT calls us to Think Big.

OK, remove their power over us. I want our country restored to the free republic our founding fathers created it to be, with NO INCOME TAX whatsoever.


70 posted on 01/18/2017 6:49:45 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: drewh

Thanks for posting this pic of Ivanka and her family.

Most other pictures usually showcase Ivanka on her own, and she takes my breath away. Always.

Your posted pic reminds me that I must obey God’s 10th Commandment: Do not covet another man’s wife! :)


71 posted on 01/18/2017 7:01:21 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: piytar

But moochelle is fluent in Ebonics. Barry is interested in learning Austrian.

It will be refreshing to have people with some real intelligence.


72 posted on 01/18/2017 7:20:58 PM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Right-wing Librarian

And I want to be 30 again.

Neither are gonna happen.


73 posted on 01/18/2017 7:21:26 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Alberta's Child

Th ank you.good comment. I read her book, then bought two more copies to give to young ladies. I’m sure she wrote it
erself. Lot of hard work. Smart lady. trust her


74 posted on 01/18/2017 7:40:27 PM PST by tommix2
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To: drewh
I give great credit to mom Ivanna who raised the first three. Donald credits her and has praised her many times. I am pretty certain that they speak frequently.

All three mothers have done a great job. I believe I read that Marla will be at the inauguration, but I am not sure about Ivanna.

75 posted on 01/18/2017 7:42:21 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: DoughtyOne
I want taxes reduced on families.

I want taxes reduced on EVERYBODY, and an end to social engineering via tax code.

76 posted on 01/18/2017 7:42:59 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is Fake News)
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To: NorthMountain

Good, then you shouldn’t mind these tax cut projections.

Sure glad we agree.


77 posted on 01/18/2017 7:45:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: drewh

Eye to eye contact. Donald dislikes shaking hands, but I know he did not mind this time.


78 posted on 01/18/2017 7:46:20 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: DoughtyOne
Good, then you shouldn’t mind these tax cut projections.

Do they apply to everybody? No?

Didn't think so.

No agreement, here.

Of course, what I actually favor is to abolish the income tax entirely ...

79 posted on 01/18/2017 7:48:03 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is Fake News)
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To: saintgermaine

wasn’t it Churchill who said that?


80 posted on 01/18/2017 7:52:16 PM PST by tommix2
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