Before we get into what they knew and when they knew it, let me tell you about my unique history with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Ivanka and I have some friends in common from high school, but my relationship with Jared was more significant – we were good friends in college, and we even, yes, dated briefly after graduating. (I am so sorry.) Which is why I watched the couple’s involvement in the 2016 election with considerable interest – and I came to the conclusion that not only were Jared and Ivanka complicit in Trump’s election…they were enormously influential on the outcome, because they had this effect of normalizing this whole “clown show” going on around them.
“If such lovely, normal people as Jared and Ivanka are on board with Trump…how bad can he be?”
Spoiler: Bad.
But for as visible as the couple was during the election and the administration–remember Jared’s Forbes cover?–they have more or less disappeared in the year since Biden’s election.
It’s likely we are going to hear more from them soon.
On January 20, Bennie Thompson, who is the chairman of the January 6 Committee, announced that the committee is requesting that Ivanka Trump provide information regarding the violent insurrection that occurred on the Capitol during the counting of the electoral votes. They believe that due to her proximity to the president she has direct knowledge of his attempts to get Mike Pence to overthrow the election.
Um…yeah. She probably does.
And sure, Ivanka may have been trying to persuade her father to put a stop to the violence. She doesn’t seem so off-the-rails as to endorse a coup, but that’s not the only problem facing the former golden couple.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has subpoenaed both Ivanka and her brother, Donald Trump, Junior, as part of a civil investigation into whether Mr. Trump fraudulently inflated the value of his holdings in order to secure business loans while also underreporting their value in order to avoid taxes.
Look, the Trump Organization is, one might argue, corrupt ‘AF,’ and we all know that Jared and Ivanka are fully aware of the ins and outs of the Trump Organization, because Ivanka has been deeply involved in her father’s business since she graduated college. She is at the very least complicit in her father’s many, many crimes.
