Minutes after the former United States (US) president, Donald Trump, announced another run for the White House on Tuesday, November 15, his first daughter, Ivanka, released a statement saying she does not plan to be involved in the campaign.
This comes after a CNN report last week that Trump’s daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, would not campaign on behalf of Donald Trump.
Recall that when Trump was the 45th president of the United States (from 2017 to 2021), Ivanka was a senior advisor in his administration and also was the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.
In a statement, Ivanka said: “While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside of the political arena,” said Ivanka, who did not attend Donald Trump’s announcement at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday evening.
“This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our Administration’s accomplishments.”
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Ivanka and Kushner played key roles in Trump’s administration and became a lightning rod for anger at many of its excesses, in part due to their previous lives as mainstays of Manhattan’s elite social scene, which is heavily Democratic.
Since Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, Ivanka and her family have moved to an expensive mansion in Florida.
She recently testified before the January 6 committee, the special congressional panel investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol in 2021 in which extremist supporters of Trump attempted to overturn his election defeat.
Ivanka was with her father in the White House that day and is one of more than 800 witnesses the committee has interviewed. Congressman Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, described her testimony as not “chatty” but helpful.