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How Ivanka Trump is planning her political future despite the Capitol Hill disaster

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, family members and senior advisers to former US president Donald Trump continue to cling to their politicial ambitions. (Photo: Gallo Images/Alamy)
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, family members and senior advisers to former US president Donald Trump continue to cling to their politicial ambitions. (Photo: Gallo Images/Alamy)

Once upon a time they were the golden couple, ruling the roost in the corridors of power, rubbing noses with kings and queens and hobnobbing with presidents and princes.

She was regarded as “the unofficial real first lady”, while he had a hotline to the leader of the free world. Wherever Donald Trump went, his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, were bound to follow.

They were his senior advisors – despite the fact they had no experience in politics. Ivanka (39) is a former property estate executive who has her own clothing label. Jared (40) is a former newspaper publisher and property developer who got into Harvard University after his father made a whopping $2,5 million “donation” to the institution.

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