Ivanka Trump has been keeping an extra low profile in recent weeks and it’s probably because she knows her life is about to be ruined.
After being cast out of Washington, D.C., the former first daughter relocated to Miami, where she and her husband have been renting a $40,000/month luxury condo while they build their $31 million dream mansion.
For a long time, not a single day passed where she wasn’t snapped by the paparazzi walking along the beach, working out, running errands, or suntanning on her balcony overlooking the ocean. Then a couple of weeks ago she just sorta…. vanished. And now we might know why.
According to Donald Trump‘s biographer Michael D’Antonio, Ivanka is in as much, if not more, trouble as Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who was just charged with 15 felony counts for evading almost $2 million in taxes over a 15 year period.
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The charges include conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, and grand larceny, among others.
Speaking to Jim Acosta on CNN over the weekend, D’Antonio explained that the crimes Weisselberg is accused of are not dissimilar to things Ivanka allegedly did while she worked at her dad’s company.
“The other person who I think is in peril is Ivanka Trump,” he explained. “One of the things that Allen Weisselberg is in trouble for is taking money as a contractor and then claiming self-employed status so that he can get some of the retirement benefits that the tax code allows for self-employed people.”
“Well, we know that Ivanka Trump got quite significant sums paid to her as non-employee compensation. That freed the Trump Organization from paying part of her taxes, and it put her in a status that I think the IRS would have lots of questions about. So, these folks don’t know how to play the game straight. I think everything they do is crooked.”
D’Antonio also said that Donald Trump only has himself to blame for what’s happening to his company and his family as he “invited all of this.”
“He ran for president in the first place as a publicity stunt,” he said. “He wanted to amp up his visibility and increase his bottom line.”
“He never intended to be elected president, and then when he became president, journalists started digging into the facts of his wealth, which has always been in doubt, and then people that he really hurt, that he steamrollered over the years of leaked documents to The New York Times that gave the truth about his taxes for the world to see. Faced with all of that, the prosecutors had no choice but to go after him.”
D’Antonio said Trump is “getting what he deserves” after years of carelessness and blatant disregard for the law.
Meanwhile, former Assistant D.A. Cynthia Alksne says she believes Ivanka could be the next member of Trump’s inner circle to face criminal charges. Speaking to MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, she said the lengths prosectors went to nail Weisselberg suggests “they’re trying to tell other people you have got to flip because we have everything.”
“Ordinarily or quite often, New York State indictments are not as detailed as this,” she explained. “The prosecutors went to an amazing amount of effort to show Weisselberg: ‘We have everything we need.'”
Menendez went on to say that if she were in charge of the investigation into the Trump Organization, “I would focus it on the kids.”
“We’ve heard a lot of this reporting about Ivanka Trump getting consulting fees, or things she may or may not have done. That looks to be like the next place.”
Last week, Ivanka’s cousin, Mary Trump, told Rachel Maddow that she believes Ivanka and her siblings, Don Jr. and Eric, will flip on their father if and when the time comes, since that’s just what people in her family do.
“His relationship with them, and their relationship with him, is entirely transactional and conditional,” she said. “They’re not going to risk anything for him, just as he wouldn’t risk anything for them.”
“As far as Donald’s concerned, they have what they have because of him and they should be willing to take whatever hit they’re going to take,” she added. “I don’t believe my cousins would exercise that kind of loyalty towards him.”
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Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
MissTerri
“reportedly” “probably” “might even”
Now THIS is Quality Journalism!!!! Hi-LAR-ious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cam
The only thing that enrages the right wing trolls more than a story about Black people or Trans people is a story pointing out Ivana Trump’s criminal behavior.
You got sloppy MissTerri, you forgot which screename you were under and tried to post a statement instead of just saying “Hi-LAR-ious”.
How sad for you that you can’t even maintain your previously weak trolling game.
Hdtex
MissTerri, you smell like a polluted beach at low tide.
Take a shower you filthy, puss-oozing gash!
scotshot
Actually it is good journalism, unless you’re into far right sites where fantasy rules.
Mister P
It’s easy to believe that she committed the same crimes as the Weisselberg
Cam
Ivanka has been desperately trying to drop phony P.R.. articles about how she’s “Distancing” herself from Donald to deflect from her criminal behavior being exposed.
Fahd
As an example, and I’m quoting here, “President Donald Trump once appeared to pay his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, $US747,622 in “consulting fees,” then write them off on his taxes, a New York Times investigation found.” As I understand it, that’s part of the alleged tax evasion. So, she may well be part of the next wave of indictments. I’m glad Queerty is on top of this. Witch hunt indeed!
BigJohnSF
Sleazy Donnie evaded gift taxes when he paid her this way – so add this to his tab.
Tombear
What would make me happy. The whole grifter family in prison!
Terrycloth
I bet she doesn’t keep that 31 million dream mansion.govenment will confiscate it to pay what they owe by selling it..her and Jared are Both in big trying to distanced themselves from Donald. They are waist deep in it . You can’t run..hope you look good in orange
Willy
Wrong!
humble charlie
Unfortunately in our “egalitarian” society, they’ll probably all get away with it because of their wealth. Yes, they’re thieves and con artists, but that has become the legitimate capitalist way.
MISTERJETT
LOCK HER UP!!!!!
Young Timer
They…. have….. everything….. they….. need.
That says it all.
Once prosecutors got Trump’s tax returns, it took a few months to dissect everything, but eventually crimes that would put you and me in jail, are right there for them to see.
It is so obvious that they don’t really need Allen Weisselberg to flip… they do have to give him the opportunity as they would anybody facing jail time.
Ivanka is indeed next. She did the same thing Weisselberg did.
It’s just a matter of time until they nail Trump himself.
Prosecutors…. have…. everything…. they….. need.
chappy51
POOR IVANKA! LOL YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING WHEN YOUY WERE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU WERE A CROOK THEN AND STILL ARE. ENJOY PRISON. DADDY AND YOUR MORON BROTHERS WILL SOON JOIN YOU!
Willy
Nope, just like all the stories the media has peddled about the Trumps this too will prove to be a giant goose egg. Awwwww!
toddlicious
Please let this come true!!!!!
fur_hunter
I want to see ALL their A SSes in prison. And when it happens, I will be doing the Snoopy Happy Dance. Yeah.
OhPlease
Charged, indicted and convicted are NOT the same thing. A grand jury will have to move for an indictment within the next year based on when one convenes and in what order her case will be taken in compliance with due process and the statute of limitations.
Some of the related cases the states were pursuing may time out and it’s over then, you can’t go back to them and there is a lot of evidence apparently tying some of the cases together which means it will probably have to be excluded. This was openly discussed in the media as far back as 2017.
Few indictments go to trial, the majority are either dismissed or pleaded. The chances of any Trump being convicted, let alone sentenced, are extremely remote since it is open knowledge that all have signed pardons in place (already disclosed publicly last last by Pence). At most they’ll probably get immunity or pleading to civil offenses or lesser felonies with a fine and no prison.
All of the Trumps are majority security risks for multiple reasons, they would be a damned drain on the justice system because it would cost millions to house and protect them. Not to mention, there is a significant Beriozka and Tong presence in the US prison system, you would he handing a drunken captain the ships keys!
Don’t get your g-string in a twist, they are gearing up for another long-preplanned “revolutionary event” in November if it doesn’t happen in August when the election results nonsense goes public, the last one had been in the planning for decades so don’t think this one will be a surprise either. The only shock factor was that so many showed up for the boot party!
You do know that all of them had book deals in place a decade ago? That was open knowledge in Florida newsrooms. Mary Trump already confirmed what we knew last week when she began promoting Eric Trump’s tell-all. It’s been an open rumor for years that he’s going to spill on the alleged Russian prostitute murders.
Cam
You said…..”Few indictments go to trial, the majority are either dismissed or pleaded. The chances of any Trump being convicted, let alone sentenced, are extremely remote since it is open knowledge that all have signed pardons in place (already disclosed publicly last last by Pence). At most they’ll probably get immunity or pleading to civil offenses or lesser felonies with a fine and no prison.””
Except that is a lie. Pardons are disclosed. But your pasting up a bunch of phony conspiracies’ was funny to watch.
Kangol2
Her billionaire hubby probably has a plan to get them out of the US should the authorities really come calling. Don’t think he doesn’t. I can think of two places they’d flee to immediately. Before we get to that point, though, I am still waiting to see if this family will suffer any real penalties for its four years of corruption and criminality, on top of all the other crap they, particular Don the Con, did for decades. Somehow, some way, he was able to skirt out of trials his numerous business failures, the hush money crime he participated in, repeated allegations of rapes and assaults, alleged perjury in New Jersey, treason (though he was impeached twice), the attempted January 6 coup, and so much more, so I’ll believe it when I see him, Ivanka and the rest of the Con gang finally being being forced to be responsible for their actions.
Prax07
The sad thing is these scuzzballs won’t be in prison like actual criminals, they’ll be in country clubs with locked doors. No getting shanked, unfortunately, for her or any of her family. And getting shanked is the very least they deserve.
brian6767
It’s hilarious how the Trumps live in your head 24/7-365! Start reporting on the positives of OUR community and not them!
scotshot
The positives begin when the Drumpf family pays for their crimes both financially and against human rights.
hawkmann
What a joke. What is normally a fine the pricks of New York want what jail time. This is BS. They didn’t avoid taxes. Guess what, those who got paid as contractors had to pay taxes on that income
Jack
I don’t get you people. They are criminals who have ripped YOU off by not paying their taxes. Trump paid $750 in taxes for at least two years in a row. I’m sure your lot rent in the trailer park is at least that much a year. Pricks look like Trumps from what I see. Manhattan DA’s look like…..lawyers prosecuting criminals. BLOOP.
jcool
i think you’re missing the point, hawkmann. when you’re paid as a contractor you are responsible to pay the taxes, but they didn’t pay them. that is where
‘criminal accountability” comes into play
mateo
Orange is the new Trump!
JB
None of the Trumps is going to jail because they have a tightly-woven wall of red tape all around them. Their lackeys will be serving time for sure, but the Trump family will not. That’s how it works in America—wealth and notoriety equal protection and immunity.
LiehateR
Lock
Her
Up.
dougie
As much as many of us would take a great deal of delight in any of the Trumps going to prison, we have to remember that (1) rich white people rarely get charged with crimes, (2) if they are charged, they rarely get convicted, and (3) if they ever get convicted, they rarely spend any time in prison. Rich white people created the laws and justice systems to benefit them. The rest of us, not so much.
humble charlie
Unfortunately, you’re right, dougie. I never saw it put so succinctly.
markneil1212
Don’t know how the hell I ended up on this site, I guess it was the most straight forward (no pun intended) about what may happen.
And I don’t know what the leftist/antifa/rest of the POS have in store for Trump.
But if Trump gets sent to Hell, I’m going with him.
rjinhou
We the people need to stop talking about these trashy people…..She needs to be in jail and so does her nasty, horrible father.
Caddy4J
.Trumps are old news. You know everything is Political. They keep putting headlines up like this for exactly one reason. Your clickbait reaction (which is very redundant ) which continues to sell, and make them money. Time to move on.