Ivanka Trump attends Trump’s Mar-a-Lago election occasion after insider says she’ll think about return to politics
Former First Daughter Ivanka Trump has made an appearance at her father’s Mar-a-Lago election party after insiders revealed she is considering a return to politics.
An unidentified source told Page Six that Ivanka would join former President Donald Trump at his private club for the election results, and another source later confirmed she was present with her husband, Jared Kushner.
The two have remained noticeably absent from Trump’s campaign, with some even mocking Ivanka when she posted the 16 lessons she has learned as she turned 43 just hours before the presidential election, while her siblings were out campaigning for their father.
She had earlier vowed to stay away from politics, after she and Kushner became two of the former president’s most trusted advisers and principal gatekeepers during his first administration.
But sources have suggested the former First Daughter may once again stand by her father’s side if he retakes the White House.
Former First Daughter Ivanka Trump reportedly made an appearance at her father’s Mar-a-Lago election party on Tuesday
Following Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Ivanka and Jared decided to lay low in Miami with their three young children.
Ivanka concentrated on her role as a mother and on her old socialite lifestyle, earning her way back into the good books of pro-Democrat celebrity circles.
Meanwhile, Jared concentrated on making lots of money from investors in foreign countries, people he’d met while in government and who have since piled millions into his private equity firm.
The former First Daughter later released a carefully-worded statement after failing to attend her father’s announcement in November 2022 that he would once again run for president.
‘I love my father very much,’ she said at the time. ‘This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family.
‘I do not plan to be involved in politics.’
She and her husband, Jared Kushner, have been noticeably absent from the former president’s campaign
Kushner reiterated that message again last week, telling the New York Times that there was ‘zero’ chance of Ivanka joining the Trump campaign in the final stretch of his campaign.
He added that Ivanka ‘made the decision when she left Washington that she was closing that chapter of her life. And she’s been remarkably consistent.
‘Obviously the world is different for us over the next four years if her father is president,’ Kushner said.
‘We’re rooting for him – obviously we’re proud of him. But you know, either way, our life will just continue to move forward.’
Ivanka was also noticeably absent from his 2024 election campaign and didn’t turn up to his historic trial in May, where he was convicted of felony crimes over the Stormy Daniels hush-money scandal.
The couple decided to lay low in Miami with their three young children
But in May, news website Puck reported that Ivanka was ‘itching to return’ to the spotlight.
A source close to the Trump family also suggested to DailyMail.com that Ivanka may have a minor role in her father’s administration.
‘I can’t see her doing anything that would take her away from Florida and her family,’ the insider said. ‘But perhaps Donald would deputize her on a foreign trip, she could travel with him occasionally, or she could work on a special project. Nothing day-to-day.’
The source continued: ‘She will enjoy the pomp and pageantry. She would be at the inauguration. But Ivanka is concerned with what the “taste makers” think and it suits her to say that she no longer works with her father fulltime after January 6, and after his indictments and convictions.’
Finally, added the insider: ‘Everything also has to be looked at through the lens of her husband and his [private equity] business.’
An insider told DailyMail.com, Ivanka may have a minor role in her father’s administration
Kushner set up the firm Affinity Partners, after leaving the White House, where he oversaw the administration’s Middle East peace efforts.
It now has a $3.1 billion fund bankrolled by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou.
Kushner made those top-level Arab contacts while in the Trump administration and is estimated to have personally earned at least $112 million in fees since 2021.
He has argued that, as a private citizen, he has the right to pursue international real-estate and business deals – even if they involve foreign governments.
A spokesman for the firm also denied any financial impropriety or exploitation.
However, Kushner is the first to admit that, the closer his father-in-law gets to the Oval Office, the more scrutiny his business dealings will face.
He knows, too, that the spotlight would be even more intense were he or Ivanka to join Trump in government once again.
The firm is also already providing him and Ivanka with access to powerful and super-wealthy people and the means of enriching themselves from those contacts.
