“He may seem cool, but he’s sweating, and she’s like her father," a source close to the family told Vanity Fair in a new story looking back at the couple's first year in D.C. "She’ll never acknowledge it and [will] blame the media. But she’s been working on her reputation forever, and now it’s going to suffer horrifically. And for what?”
As the piece points out, their initial ascent in Washington was marked by a hope that they would provide a moderating perspective within the administration, but they have since been dogged by a lack of big victories, constant criticisms, and legal woes.
In fact, Ivanka has spoken about the backlash she has experienced.
“Some people have created unrealistic expectations of what they expect from me,” she told the Financial Times in September. “That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him…It’s not going to happen.”
Her father has since defended her, saying earlier this month that “Ivanka has been treated very unfairly.”
Ivanka and Jared’s path into politics has also reportedly affected many of their prior relationships.
Kushner appears to have even cut ties with some friends who expressed their dismay about the election. He told Forbes late last year, “I call it an exfoliation. Anyone who was willing to change a friendship or not do business because of who somebody supports in politics is not somebody who has a lot of character.”
But an earlier Vanity Fair piece from October suggested he and Ivanka may be the ones getting snubbed by the D.C. elite and their former New York associates.
Despite the challenges both of their brands have faced since joining the administration, and the Russia investigation which looms over Kushner, they are reportedly continuing to work on key issues like child tax credits and others.
Mr . Humble our in house expert :
Jared's got that backwards... the people who decided to not do business with him are showing they DO have character.... he says it's because they don't . They 'do' which is why they don't want to do business with him. And Ivanka........ 'Cry me a river' .....
They have no business in the WH. They are there as protection for her father which has been said to have a mental disability which the family had to constantly hide and delude people in their business sphere from finding out. They moved there to run interference and it has backfired on all of them tremendously.
It' is being said that he (Trump) also has a learning disability that was never addressed. He is 71 years old and can't read, can't think on his feet, can't carry on a conversation about anything.
This could not happen to a nicer couple. I hope they both end up in prison with the so-called president.
I've got news for him (Kucher). He may think that if people drop him because of his political beliefs and his choice of politician he supports shows lack of character, that there are OTHERS who believe that if you support someone who is a KNOWN crook, mentally ill bottom feeder who is a compulsive liar interested in only himself and not the good of the country, YOU'RE showing lack of character...not to mention judgment. Looks to me like his life has got steadily worse since Crazy Crooked Comrade Chump took office. I wonder how he will feel when he sees the looks on his children's faces when they march HIM out in handcuffs and they have to visit him in jail--just like HIS felonious father did before him? You'd think he'd have learned from that experience. He deserves what he gets.
Just my humble opinion
