Hannah Seligson

Mar. 10 2018, 1:59 PM

IVANKA TRUMP IS the ghost of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation: She is connected, either directly or tangentially, to events at the heart of the probe, yet all but invisible to the public.

But as Mueller’s investigation broadens, the so-called first daughter is becoming a long overdue part of the bigger story of alleged corruption at the Trump Organization. Last week, we learned that the FBI is looking into the financing and negotiations surrounding her involvement with Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, which is home to an Ivanka Trump-branded spa. That inquiry may be unrelated to the Russia probe, but it should draw scrutiny to Ivanka’s business dealings and how they relate to her father’s political rise.

The mainstream press frequently describes Ivanka — who recently denied any collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russians — as the head of a fashion company. Yet she was also a top executive at the Trump Organization and a hard-charging, and often quite effective, dealmaker for the real estate development company. Despite her entrenched role in the West Wing and status as one of her father’s most trusted advisers and emissaries on matters as wide-ranging as G-20 and the Winter Olympics, her identity — carefully curated on social media and through her press operation — hinges on issues such as female entrepreneurship, maternal leave, and being a mother to highly Instagrammable kids. It’s a persona that renders the media establishment and broader public largely incapable of considering that she might be a key player in the Trump-Russia narrative.

After all, who would suspect an ex-model, mother of three, and public champion of working women to be pulling the levers of power, calling the shots, and working alongside people like Felix Sater, a Russian-American businessman with reputed mob ties who served jail time for stabbing a man in a bar fight?

Mueller’s probe is scrutinizing Trump’s business transactions. Although we don’t know the full scope of the investigation, Ivanka was reportedly among just a handful of people with a role in foreign projects at the Trump Organization.

She also appears to have been present, albeit briefly, at a controversial meeting aboard Air Force One on the way back from the G-20 summit in July, when Trump administration staffers and the president himself drafted a response to reporters’ questions about a meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin. The statement, now exposed as a cover-up, said the meeting was focused on Russian adoption when it was really to discuss potentially damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Ivanka, according to “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff, attended the Air Force One gathering, which is now reportedly of interest to Mueller. The first daughter’s team told Wolff that she quickly left the meeting to “take a pill, and go to sleep” — a timeline that works in Ivanka’s favor, giving her what Wolff describes as a “get out of jail free card.”

At other times, however, Ivanka has indisputably been more present. She was one of three people – along with her husband, Jared Kushner, and Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller – whom the president consulted before deciding to fire then-FBI director James Comey. Their motive for encouraging Comey’s ouster, Wolff claims, was fear for their own fortunes: Ivanka and Kushner were influenced by Jared’s father Charlie Kushner’s “panic” that the “Kushner family’s dealings were getting wrapped up in the pursuit of Trump.” The couple, whom Wolff dubs “Jarvanka,” became, in his words, “co-conspirators” in the Comey firing, which is being investigated as a possible obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/static.theintercept.com/amp/ivanka-trump-organization-russia-investigation.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575438)

Its amazing how much real estate Trump occupies in his small mind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575475)

Following fucklaw's departure, he spent his time here attacking Trump for 2 years (not once mentioning russia, until Hillary's campaign engineered that talking point, prior to which he was calling Trump a Clinton plant).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575495)

The Russians that were charged the other week? That's what the investigation is primarily about. Prince's meeting, that's about 'collusion' again.

You claimed that Mueller was primarily focused on digging into Trump's finances, when the Trump Organization hasn't even been hit with a single subpoena yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575593)

On top of that, even Weissman understands KYC laws, unlike you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575638)

They don't have any authority over local Russian telecom companies in Russia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35581881)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-fallout-hits-atampt8217s-ambitions-in-europe-1383173441

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35581931)

This series of events and decisions might help explain why former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon labeled Ivanka and Kushner “Russia Toxic,” according to Wolff. The author says this was Bannon’s way of warning his White House colleagues not to speak to the couple lest they jeopardize their careers by getting entangled in Mueller’s investigation.

“Why is he [Mueller] not interviewing Ivanka?” asked CNN legal analyst Michael Zeldin, a former prosecutor who worked for Mueller at the Justice Department. “The answer is, beats me. Either he’s just biding his time or he has obtained this evidence elsewhere and he doesn’t need her, or he appreciates the possibility of a major eruption were he to do that.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3914967&forum_id=2#35575526)