Is Ivanka Trump one of the ‘targets’ of Bob Mueller’s investigation or nah?

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Have you noticed how quiet Ivanka Trump has been lately? For the past month or longer, Ivanka has been in the wind. She and Jared Kushner went away (on holiday) around Easter/Passover. Then they came back to DC very quietly, and they haven’t been making much noise since then. I tend to believe that they’re being quiet right now because they finally realized that they don’t know much about running a country. Plus, John Kelly (WH chief of staff) seems to have isolated them and taken away some of their power, with Trump’s implicit permission. But what if there’s another reason why Precious Ivanka and Precious Jared – once so vital to Bigly – are now being marginalized within the White House? Well, it’s become clear that Robert Mueller is investigating Jared Kushner’s actions, but what about Ivanka? Politico has a fascinating new story about why Mueller hasn’t interviewed Precious Ivanka yet.

She was in Bedminster, New Jersey, with President Donald Trump the rainy May 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month, strategizing about how to manage the fallout of her brother Don Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer peddling “dirt” about Hillary Clinton. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and West Wing adviser, also spoke briefly at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer and a lobbyist who was present for that meeting during the campaign.

Yet the family member closest to the president — and the woman who as a key campaign figure helped lobby her father to hire Paul Manafort, a man who is now under indictment on money laundering and fraud charges, as campaign manager — has yet to be called in for questioning by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.

As Mueller negotiates an interview with the president, former White House aides who themselves have sat down with prosecutors for daylong grillings are wondering why.

“She’s involved in everything,” said one former White House adviser who has previously clashed with the Trump children. “It’s odd. Unless they consider her that ‘T’ word.”

So far, only Ivanka Trump’s Washington enemies are actively floating the idea that she might be a “target” of Mueller’s investigation — and therefore not called in as a witness.

But former prosecutors and Justice Department lawyers said the fact that she has yet to be tapped — and that Mueller’s team, according to people familiar with the case, has not yet requested any documents related to her — says more about Mueller’s risk-averse process than it does about her lack of involvement in the events underpinning the Russia inquiry. That someone so close to the major events under scrutiny would not be interviewed is unusual, former prosecutors and Justice Department lawyers said. But Mueller’s decision to steer clear of the first daughter — at least for now — is a signal of his “don’t poke the bear until you have to” strategy.

“Mueller would know that trying to interview Ivanka Trump would be like lighting a match to the highly combustible Donald Trump,” said Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor who reported directly to Mueller when he served in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of California. “The team would want to wait to the last possible moment, if at all, before taking that step.”

[From Politico]

Personally, I will be disappointed in Mueller’s investigation if Ivanka and Jared are NOT targeted in some way, because clearly, both of them were and are in it up to their eyeballs. Kushner was in bed financially with shady characters of many different nationalities, including Russians. Ivanka brought in Manafort and they both had a hand in convincing Bigly to fire James Comey. So, do you think Ivanka is a target? I think Jared is, for sure. And maybe… I don’t know. Would Jared flip on his wife and his father-in-law? LMAO.

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40 Responses to “Is Ivanka Trump one of the ‘targets’ of Bob Mueller’s investigation or nah?”

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  1. Larne says:

    This family is so corrupt and shady.
    If Mueller goes after Ivanka , Donald may lose his mind completely! That will be one hell of a Twitter storm for days!

    • ELX says:

      Shades of Andy from Enron—he and his wife were both convicted of felonies in that matter and served consecutive prison sentences so one of them could be ‘home with the kids.’ If memory serves, she went first and did a couple of years before he began serving his 10-year sentence.

      • Swack says:

        Isn’t that also what Theresa (from RHO?) and her husband did? She went first and then he went.

      • Katy says:

        Yes ELX I remember them and it’s kinda like that “Real Housewife of Butt Lips” and her husband that had to separate their prison sentences for loan fraud. There is no way in hell that Jared would turn on Ivanka and her POS father. That’s just my opinion but his dad went to prison so he used to that sort of thing. 🙂

        Hi Swack – I didn’t see your response when I wrote this, but yes I couldn’t remember their names.

      • brincalhona says:

        How is this fair? If a couple committed a robbery, they wouldn’t get this type of sentence. Greedy, rich people who want a more lavish lifestyle should be punished more severely than poor people whose crimes might be committed out of necessity.

    • AnneC says:

      Actually hoping that the NY attorney general brings charges against the whole family. That way no presidential pardon!

  2. Juls says:

    Miss complicity wants to save her own skin. And possibly cares enough about her children not to leave them without both parents. Maybe she knows her dad and hubby are both going down so she has been a confidential informant for a while now in order to save her own plastic skin.

    • Lightpurple says:

      She doesn’t care her kids; they’re props to her, but she’ll use them to argue she shouldn’t have to go to prison because the kids would become a burden on the state. Didn’t work for Ethel Rosenberg. Also, I doubt Panama will care about her kids.

  3. Digital Unicorn says:

    He will go after her, not just yet – I think the minute Mueller shows interest in her then we know he is going to bring EZ down. She holds all the cards and will flip on Daddy to save her own ass.

  4. minx says:

    IMO the don’t-poke-a-bear theory makes a lot of sense.
    She wears so much makeup…that picture of her in the sunshine, yeesh.

    • Becks says:

      She does, but much like SHS, she also knows how to do a nice smoky eye.

    • Dr Mrs The Monarch says:

      I think this is the case too. Jared, Ivanka and Don were so trigger happy to fire Comey to try to shut down the investigation. Mueller knows he has to be extremely cautious to keep the investigation going. We have also seen him use father-son leverage in the Manafort case. Since Ivanka is the only kid Don might actually care about, she is going to be the biggest wedge used to crack him…I hope.

      • Katy says:

        Dr Mrs – wasn’t it Michael Flinn that caved because his son was implicated and the wife went berserk because she didn’t want her son caught up in this? Maybe Manafort as well, but I don’t think he is cooperating is he?

  5. BearcatLawyer says:

    She may not YET be a target, but I feel she cannot and will not escape unscathed. Mueller knows that calling her in for an interview would be pretty pointless at this stage. She will either breathe whisper about how she is just the President’s daughter and should not treated like this or invoke her 5th Amendment rights or claim spousal privilege when appropriate. Or all of the above. No, better to just wait until he has enough to indict Jarvanka and let the chips fall where they may.

    • Lightpurple says:

      She’s a target. She met separately with the “adoption lawyer” and we now know it was more than just a ride in an elevator. That money laundering mess down in Panama belongs to her. She hired Flynn. She had a N.Y. DA bribed not to prosecute her. She partied with Russian oligarchs. She’s a target.

  6. Merritt says:

    Jared is likely a target so Ivanka might be one too. Lock up the whole family.

  7. Mamunia says:

    So, do you think Ivanka is a target? God, I hope so!!!
    Would Jared flip on his wife and his father-in-law? YES!!!
    I wonder if they could have a family wing at a prison. Just stick them all in together and watch them destroy each other. We could video it and put it on pay per view and put it towards the deficit!

    • Lightpurple says:

      He would have to flip on her before she flips on him. Princess Nagini would throw Tom Riddle in front of a fleet of buses if she thought doing so would keep her in the position Daddy has given her at our expense but if she believes that she is in danger of going to prison, nobody is safe, not even daddy.

  8. Eric says:

    Ivanka is a target. It’s under wraps because Emperor Zero would go ballistic. I’ve heard the last to be indicted are Jr and Ivanka. Before EZ but only by a combovered hair.

    • Swack says:

      🙂 Your posts are always very informative and uplifting. Thanks for all the info you have provided.

    • Vava says:

      🙂

    • PunkyMomma says:

      That makes sense — it would have to be a very coordinated, simultaneous take-down, much like the hits in The Godfather Part I.

      Oh, boy! I hope this happens soon — the issues re North Korea and Iran impact all of humanity; I’m hoping Mueller gets rid of all the vermin before the rats get us all blown to hell.

    • Jaded says:

      Oh I was hoping you’d drop some gold nuggets into this story Eric…keep ’em coming!!

    • Tiffany :) says:

      Sounds like a good strategy!

      Ivanka and her brother clearly were violating the law when selling Trump tower units, lying to prospective buyers about the number of units sold and inflating costs. She is a con artist, money launderer, grifter just like her father.

  9. K-Peace says:

    God, I hope so. I would LOVE to see Precious Ivanka & Dipsh*t Jared behind bars clad in Pumpkin Suits.

    • Giddy says:

      Orange is not her best color. She would not do well in lockup. Martha Stewart had spine because she created everything in her empire. She supposedly organized yoga, exercise, and
      various classes. Precious Complicit Barbie has had everything given to her, including a senior WH position, and probably has poor coping skills. I picture her crying all day every day.* It would be so very wonderful if the First Family of Grifters got out to find their criminal empire torn asunder…golf resorts gone, penthouses closed up, no plane or helicopter. SAD!

      *your tears are so delicious, please cry some more

      • Lightpurple says:

        Martha Stewart also went to Club Fed. Nagini is looking at possible state prison. Not so nice. And she is nowhere near as smart as she thinks it is.

      • Christin says:

        I looked up information about life at the Club Fed where Martha served.

        Having kitchen duty for the first few weeks seemed the only taxing thing about it. The grounds, the daily expectations, etc., were far less than I imagined. She could just take walks around the campus (which is what it was – with dorms) if she wanted.

    • elle says:

      I hope they give her back her old face, too.

  10. Indiana Joanna says:

    They are quiet now because they finally understand that grifting and using the US government and world influence as collateral is a crime.

    Both Jared and Grifter Barbie have made money off their WH connections. They didn’t even try to hide it. Jared is still shopping around for a loan from foreign governments before the present loan on the 666 building comes due next Feb.

    • Christin says:

      Didn’t a foreign entity pump money into 666 within the last month or so? It was one of the headlines that got washed away by some other tweet of the day, but I think there was an infusion that correlated with a WH meeting. Which implies that access may have led to that investment.

  11. Becks says:

    Of course Mueller is looking at her and Jared, and I am sure he plans to more fully investigate her (including an interview), but the “don’t poke a bear” strategy sounds pretty accurate. He’s not turning to Ivanka until he has everything else lined up.

  12. Lightpurple says:

    It’s Small Business Week! And Infrastructure Week AGAIN! Because Princess Nagini LOVES infrastructure. She has a special affinity with infrastructure, given how much she has used it in her own face and boobs. Nagini has been happily traveling about the US on our tax money to brag about how much money the tax scam she lobbied for, again using our money, will save her. To console herself with no invitation to Prince Harry’s wedding, she is once again posting pictures of her spawn because she pretends to be the perfect mommy, even though the kids don’t know who she is. Next up, Nagini and Tom Riddle will vacation in Israel, at our expense, of course, where Netanyahu will probably drop some Pay to Play money on her “fund.”

    Nagini is a target. She hired Flynn. She ordered the first bombing raid on Syria and shared that information with Eric. She can’t get security clearance because she keeps lying on the forms. Her Panama shenanigans are under investigation and Panama might move for extradition. Her Middle East business deals are shady. She hangs with Russian oligarchs. She bribed a district attorney. Nagini is going down

    • Indiana Joanna says:

      Yes, LP, well said. Grifter Barbie has had tons of cosmetic infrastructure done and this qualifies her to speak about roads and bridges. I hope she goes to prison.

      She is so absurd and hideous in her entitlement and idiocy. She just doesn’t get why most people in DC think she’s a joke. Her tweets are direct copy and pastes when it comes to any topic she pretends to understand. They only underscore how clueless she is.

      • Lightpurple says:

        And she’s always “so inspired” by whoever the subjects of her latest photo ops are but then posts a picture of herself, not them

      • Indiana Joanna says:

        LOL! So true about the “inspired” observation.

  13. redheadwriter says:

    And the countdown to her pregnancy/give me sympathy announcement will soon follow.

  14. Christin says:

    Each time I get concerned about the time it’s taking to bring charges, I think back to a smaller scale corruption case. The feds worked their way up the chain, getting everyone from the chairman to top execs and even the public entity’s lawyer. A judge married to one of the execs received jail time for something he did during the trial. However, it took time for all this to play out and the public doubted these upper society folks would ever be held accountable.

    At the time, a few said that the feds do not mess around, and that these execs were not immune to prosecution. Over time, that proved to be right. So I think in time, we’ll see a lot more people (including dear daughter) taking plea deals.

  15. aenflex says:

    It’s all going to fall on the deputy AG and beyond that, Congress. At least as far as Trump’s indict-ability. Though I wish it wasn’t so, I sincerely believe nothing by way of justice or punishment for Trump will come from Mueller’s work.