She was notably absent in Donald Trump’s seven-week silent trial in New York – and Ivanka was only able to offer four words of public support to his father after his historical conviction on Thursday for paying a porn star.
“I love you dad,” she wrote on her Instagram Story, accompanied by a photo of her as a child with her father.
Until Tiffany managed to get to court on Tuesday, joining Is rich and Donald Jr. as closing arguments began. Eric was back in court when the verdict was read on Thursday, while loyal soldier Don Jr., who filmed himself in court the day before, planning with his father to write mean tweets, he had his keyboard fingers ready to use.
Where has the Trump clan been while their patriarch was in court?
Within hours of the verdict, Jr. fired off 14 posts on X, seven posts on Truth Social, one Instagram video and four Facebook posts in support of his father. “What nonsense,” he fumed at X when the verdict was announced. “Democrats have succeeded in their years-long attempt to turn America into a third-world shithole. November 5th is our last chance to save him.”
Melania, however, said nothing.
An Instagram post by Ivanka Trump following Donald Trump’s guilty verdict.
The absence of Ivanka and Melania from the trial would have “absolutely” upset Trump, his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham speculated. CNN this week.
“That kind of thing would bother him,” she said. “If Mrs. Trump wasn’t at some event and it was really noticed, he would definitely bring it up with her. So I’m sure in this context, it’s definitely bothering him.”
Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner have tried to distance themselves from the political cyclone surrounding Trump. After reportedly being snubbed by their high-society friends in New York for their work in the Trump White House, the couple moved to Florida and said they would not be involved in Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign.
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