“why weren’t they just appointed to run HIS ESTATE, MONEY & PROPERTIES in the interim?”
I think he’s trying to pave the way for Ivanka to be first woman POTUS, and helping her by getting her involved in everything. He’s so fascinated with her. If wants a legacy involving his children, Ivanka would be the LAST one to choose.
That may very well be BUT I ‘understand’ she was still smoozing the Ds in the Hamptons etc BUT- then again- that may be all that is there....
We have some ‘grand’ idea that just because someone is the spouse of a CEO or whatever, the wife can just step into the top position because she ‘married’ well or correctly.
This naming a wife to the husbands seat if he dies in office ‘works’ because a good percentage will vote the ‘sympathy’ vote another percentage will say I didn’t realize HE was running again and the remaining diehards that would vote for the ‘party’ if Satan himself was running...