Ivanka’s shock at her father’s vicious critics
Ivanka Trump has told of her surprise at the ‘viciousness’ of the attacks against her family since her father became president.
and she insisted that Mr Trump felt ‘incredibly optimistic’ about the investigation into his campaign’s possible ties to Russia, following testimony by former FBI director James Comey.
Miss Trump, 35, appeared on US breakfast television to portray her father as a victim, even though he is accused of using Twitter to make personal attacks against his opponents.
In the interview on Fox and Friends, Miss Trump was asked whether it was harder than she expected since her father, who is 71 tomorrow, was elected and she became one of his advisers.
‘It is hard and there is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience,’ she said. ‘ But this isn’t supposed to be easy. My father, and this administration intends to be transformative and we want to do big bold things. I’m trying to keep my head down and not listen to the noise and make a positive impact’.
Miss Trump and her husband Jared kushner, who is also advising the President, were reported to be considering moving back to new York from Washington over the conflict in the White House. But Miss Trump said that her husband loves his job and they were both focused on their work.
Meanwhile First Lady Melania Trump has finally moved into the White House, five months after her husband took office. She and the Trumps’ 11- year- old son Barron arrived in Washington on Sunday.
Mrs Trump, 47, quickly announced her arrival by tweeting a picture taken from a window looking across the White House lawn. She had delayed her move so Barron could finish his school year in new York .
They arrived at the White House by helicopter, with Barron wearing a Tshirt saying ‘The Expert’ and were joined by Mrs Trump’s Slovenian parents, viktor and amalija knavs.
The couple, who were living with their daughter in new York, are expected to spend a large amount of time at the White House and will help looking after Barron, who will start at the private £32,000-a-year St andrew’s Episopal school in Potomac, Maryland, in the autumn.
Mrs Trump and her son’s belated move to Washington will please new Yorkers, who have been footing a huge security bill to protect them while they lived in Trump Tower. The arrangements led to daily traffic chaos.
a federal appeals court last night upheld a decision blocking President Trump’s revised travel ban on several mainly Muslim countries. Judges said the proposal violated US immigration law by discriminating against people based on their nationality and that Mr Trump failed to show their entry into the country would hurt US interests.