Ivanka Trump’s in-laws may have nixed any future invites to Mar-A-Lago. Vanity Fair reports that Jared Kushner’s parents hosted a private lunch at their Jersey Shore beach home on Sunday for Nikki Haley.
According to a source who briefed Vanity Fair, at the event, Charles Kushner (Jared’s dad) talked of Haley as potentially, “the first woman president”. Some of those in attendance made donations to Haley’s political action committee, Stand For America.
Haley is believed to be considering a run for President in 2024. The former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador told a rally in New Jersey on Sunday night she had “a big decision to make at the beginning of ‘23.” This has been assumed by all to mean whether she will run or not.
Neither Charles Kushner nor Nikki Haley commented on Vanity Fair’s report of the lunch.
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The alleged get-together came hours after Donald Trump hinted to Fox News that he was likely to run again in 2024.
“I do know my answer but I can’t reveal it yet because that has to do with campaign financing and everything else. But I absolutely know my answer,” Trump told Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo. “We’re going to do very well and people are going to be very happy.”
If both Haley and Trump make a run for 2024, it remains to be seen who Ivanka and Jared will throw their support behind (and yes, we appreciate a lot can happen between now and then).
Ivanka and her husband are known to get on well with Haley. Last month, on Father’s Day weekend, they were spotted visiting Haley and her husband, Michael Haley, at the Kiawah Island beach club in South Carolina. When Haley resigned her US Ambassador to the United Nations role in 2018, she heaped praise upon Jared, particularly for his role in trying to broker a Middle East peace plan. She described him as, “a hidden genius that no one understands.”
News of the Kushner family’s private lunch for Haley may not sit well with Donald Trump. He pardoned Charles Kushner in January for his 2005 conviction for fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering (for which he served 14 months in prison before being released in 2006).
The news is only likely to add to rumors of Ivanka distancing herself from her father in recent months, as he continues to push the lie that he won last year’s election. She and Jared chose to go skiing in Aspen, Colorado in recent days and were notably absent from Donald Trump’s CPAC appearance in Dallas on the weekend.
Last month, two sources told CNN that Ivanka and Jared had not attended the usual Spring and Summer events at Mar-A-Lago, including Trump’s 75th birthday. One said Ivanka wants a, “less complicated life for her family.”
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Others believe she may be distancing herself because of the increasing investigations being carried out into the Trump empire. Her cousin, Mary Trump, told a podcast last week she believed Ivanka could turn on her father if threatened with her own legal woes.
“She’s much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg,” the bestselling author explained, referring to the Trump Organization’s CFO who was recently charged with 15 felony counts for evading almost $2 million in taxes over a 15 year period.
“Allen had a pretty cushy gig where he was. And I think kind of, in the grand scheme of things, as counterintuitive as this might sound, I think Ivanka has, one, more to lose and, two, more to hang onto. Her husband’s family is legitimately very wealthy.”
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Kangol2
Look, if the the explosive news today is true about the Kremlin leak showing Putin and his top division chiefs actively plotted to install Don the Con, had kompromat on him, and aimed to use him and the US to ensure Russia’s strategic global aims (that did happen), sow social and political division in the US (that did happen), and weaken the US in multiple ways (cf. 2020 and Don the Con’s catastrophic mismanagement of Covid-19 and the US economy), Ivanka and the entire Con family should be quaking in their boots. Ivanka’s in-laws might be kissing up to Nikki Haley, but she was in the administration of and keeps kissing the treasonous @ss of Traitor Trump the Con. Absolutely disgusting, all of it and them!
xnetminder
THANK YOU for calling that scumbag what his is: treasonous and Traitor trump!! That’s how he should now and forever be addressed “TRAITOR trump” and never ever “ex” or “former” president!
Cam
“”When Haley resigned her US Ambassador to the United Nations role in 2018, she heaped praise upon Jared, particularly for his role in trying to broker a Middle East peace plan. She described him as, “a hidden genius that no one understands.”””
Yeah, except everything he did failed, his wife was exposed for committing perjury to cover up fraud and new evidence leaking out seems to tie Trump even closer to Putin.
Nothing in the GOP isn’t dirty.
GayEGO
Well said!
Fahd
Just wanted to mention that Nikki Haley is a soulless apparatchik who is available to the highest bidder- she’ll say and do anything, anything, the money men want her to do. Sounds like she could be the Republican nominee.
Liquid Silver
I can’t see Haley as the Republican pick for Prez…they don’t vote for women, she can’t carry some areas of the country that she’d need to.
No, they’ll go with another white guy for President and leave Haley for a lesser office.
Mack
It’ll more than likely be Death Santis if Traitor Trump doesn’t run.
woodroad34
From a Republican standpoint, Nimrata’Nikki’ Randhawa Haley, seems like a long shot to the bigoted low brows of the reactionary GOP…I doubt they could hide their disgust under the pretense of “see how not bigoted we are towards a black woman presidential candidate?” Until they throw their full weight behind the lumbering piece of Limburger cheese that is the twice-impeached Florida retiree
humble charlie
Jared did such a great job in the Middle East. There’s nothing like a corrupt American Jewish realtor being an unbiased mediator between the Israeli (“I never met a Jewish settlement I didn’t like!” & “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will”) government and the Palestinians. As usual, might makes right.
missvamp
sadly i think their pick might be santis or greg abbott. there are also rumors his sorry ass may try to run too. i’ll be happy if he tries to make a run. that means that both of them are no longer governors!! anything to get them out of office. it’s how we got rid of rick perry. but look at the lunatic we ended up with. UGH
BoylesqueBubble
So no one is going to come in here and “deflect” and “defend” her? Did someone scare off all the trolls? Better go “log in” to another one of my alleged screen names so I can defend her!
There’s nothing to deflect or defend when it comes to this woman, her family, or the entire GOP party. Then we have the problematic Nikki. Both these skanks are reprehensible. Charles Kushner should have remained in prison! Mary Trump (as usual) is always spot on.
man5996853
I would love to see Haley win the nomination because there is no way in hell that the misogynistic, xenophobes, who make up a huge swath of the Republican base, will vote for her. They’ll vote for any incompetent, brain-dead white prick but they aren’t going to vote for a woman, especially a brown woman.
GayEGO
Istanka is running away from her daddy Donnie who lost the election. Maybe Nikki can be nominated but Donnie will likely be in prison!
Plato
Trump and his ENTIRE family, along with every elected Republican politician are traitors.
When will Democrats start using words average Americans understand. Using “seditionist” instead of “traitor” is not nearly as effective.
I don’t give a F*** if it’s “correct”.
Trump is a TRAITOR. Spell it any way you like.