Word on the street is that Ivanka Trump is in serious peril. Several media outlets, political pundits, and legal analysts believe that she’s next in line to be charged in the ongoing criminal probe of the Trump Organization.
Now, Ivanka’s cousin, Mary Trump, says she doesn’t think the former first daughter will have any choice but to flip on her father when the feds inevitably turn their attention directly toward him.
Speaking to Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of the podcast The New Abnormal, Mary said Ivanka is essentially stuck between a rock and a hard place and has way too much to lose by staying loyal to her father at this point.
“She’s much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg,” the bestselling author explained, referring to the Trump Organization’s CFO who was just charged with 15 felony counts for evading almost $2 million in taxes over a 15 year period.
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“Allen had a pretty cushy gig where he was. And I think kind of, in the grand scheme of things, as counterintuitive as this might sound, I think Ivanka has, one, more to lose and, two, more to hang onto. Her husband’s family is legitimately very wealthy.”
Ivanka’s husband, Jared, is said to be worth around $800 million, mostly due to his family’s shady real estate business. Meanwhile, she’s said to be worth around $300 million, bringing their total net worth as a couple to just over $1 billion.
According to Mary, protecting that $1 billion is more important to Ivanka than protecting her own father.
She made similar remarks last week in an interview with Rachel Maddow, when she said that she doesn’t believe any of Trump’s adult children will remain loyal to him, calling their relationship “entirely transactional and conditional.”
“They’re not going to risk anything for him, just as he wouldn’t risk anything for them,” she said.
Speaking to Jong-Fast, Mary went on to say that she sees a lot of similarities between her own legal dispute with her crooked family and the emerging case against Weisselberg, which is also bad news for the Trump klan.
“The kind of fraud that’s being alleged here is exactly the kind of thing my aunts and uncles did to me,” she said. “Patterns strongly imply intent, right?”
She explained that after her father died, her aunts and uncles allegedly created a shell corporation to move funds out of the family business in an effort to both steal from her and avoid paying almost $500 million in estate taxes.
“I think my case also sets a precedent for what the fraud case is hopefully going to show,” she said.
A fraud case in which Ivanka increasingly appears to be extremely close, if not right at, the very center.
As if all that wasn’t bad enough, at least one former House Republican and Justice Department official is publicly calling on prosecutors to subpoena Ivanka and her siblings to determine what, if any, involvement they had in the January 6 Capitol riot.
During a panel discussion at New York University this week, former Rep. Barbara Comstock, who represented northern Virginia for two terms before being ousted by a Democrat Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2018, pushed for Trump’s adult children to be investigated.
“Nothing has been looked out from January 6 about what they did that day, how that rally came about, all of the people who funded the rally, how people like the Proud Boys and these, you know, Three Percenters, these different groups, the white nationalist groups, that were there,” she said.
Comstock, who led several investigations into the Clinton administration back in the ’90s, also urged her fellow Republicans to stop giving into Trump and #TheBigLie, saying, “You owe it to your constituents to stand up and tell the truth.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Invader7
Uh oh.. .. They’re coming for you Ivanka.. And your equally SLEAZY brothers..
hawkmann
Sure. Lol. Lap the BS up libs. Nothing is happening to the Trumps
Sorry If I hurt Your Feelings
Lol. Sleazy Brothers? I bet they are really really scared!! You are clueless!
lord.krath
This isn’t a plea for pity for that family. They very clearly are terrible people. But imagine growing up in that household?
Imagine having access to pretty much anything and everything modern human existence could offer and yet the one thing that you cannot have is sincere and endearing love and loyalty from your own family.
Imagine what kind of person you have to be for that to be true.
RoughRugger
Don’t have to imagine it…we’re watching it go down IRL…
Sorry If I hurt Your Feelings
Take off your blinders. Your acting like a sheep! Your liberal leaders have brainwashed the little bit of brain you have. The Biden crime family will be in jail before any of the Trumps.
barryaksarben
Strange how “sorry” sounds just like “hawkman” both cowardly turds who are so insane they think the Biden’s are a crime family when ALL EVIDENCE supports the reality of the TRUMP CRIME FAMILY. Trump has been a thief for decades not paying contractors that he signed contracts with. He is not a man of his word. He is scum he is low class sitting on a tacky gold plated toilet. Trump with his hair and makeup, high heeled shoes he is so nelly he will be on the next season of RUPAUL and they swear he is a masculine man. LAUGHABLE
Cam
@Sorry If I hurt Your Feelings
Translation: Ivanka committed crimes and the right wing troll is desperate to deflect from that fact.
Openminded
Does anyone remember the TV show “Dirty Sexy Money” or something similar to that? I always figured it was written directly about the Trump family. Tons of money and no real love or loyalty.
whereshouldistart
I smell a sitcom…
“TRUMP IS THE NEW ORANGE”?
“THREE KIDS AND AN IDIOT”?
“EVERYBODY HATES TRUMP”?
Oh the possibilities are endless!
Vag Dentata
Filling my bong with Ivankaz tears !
Fahd
If Jared’s father, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Martha Stewart can go to prison, why can’t Ivanka?
I enjoy reading these posts that reiterate how awful Trump and his adult children are, and I’m glad Queerty is intent on keeping its readers updated.
Doug
I like reading them too, but sometimes they feel more like wishful thinking than facts.
OhPlease
You are wasting your breath. They will NEVER go to prison for a damned thing, for multiple reasons another imminent uprising notwithstanding. Pence signed their pardons months before the election and they will be allowed to turn evidence under immunity deals. At the very most, they’ll plead to relatively minor felonies or misdemeanors with small fines. Trump is a foreign asset whose backers own some of this administration’s movers and shakers, do you seriously think the courts will upset the apple cart? If you do believe that, take the blinders off. It’s called “damage control.”
Cam
Troll, you’ve tried to pass this same lie out on several threads.
The VP doesn’t do pardons. Go troll someplace else, you’re boring.
BaltoSteve
Not only does the VP not do pardons, but federal pardons are worthless pieces of paper against STATE charges.
Kevan1
Screw him.