Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner largely stored their distance from Donald Trump’s marketing campaign this time round, however took the stage with him when the Republican presidential nominee gave a victory speech early Wednesday.
The 2 clapped as the previous president basked in his political comeback and within the GOP taking again management of the Senate.
However they performed little function within the win, apparently.
The president-elect’s oldest daughter campaigned for him in 2016 and 2020, providing a softer facet than her belligerent, bloviating father. She served as one in all his high advisers in his first time period.
However when Donald Trump launched his third bid for the White Home after his 2020 defeat amid mounting authorized woes, she introduced that she and Kushner, who was additionally a senior adviser within the first Trump White Home, had been leaving politics to give attention to their household.
“While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she mentioned. (She did, nevertheless, seem with Kushner on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July to see her father settle for the nomination.)
Kushner just lately reaffirmed that he was not in search of to return to the White Home, even when his father-in-law referred to as and supplied him a job.
Kushner advised Axios he was dedicated to his $3 billion personal fairness fund, staked partially by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. His agency has raked in tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in charges since 2021 regardless of no return of revenue to the nations concerned, in accordance to a New York Instances report.
Kushner seems to be content material staying on the political sidelines.
“We’re rooting for him — obviously, we’re proud of him,” Kushner mentioned of Trump to The New York Instances final week. “But, you know, either way, our life will just continue to move forward.”
And cheered they did within the wee hours Wednesday as Trump declared victory.
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