Ivanka Trump to step down from businesses—reports
Ivanka Trump, America’s newly named White House special advisor Jared Kushner, will step down from the Trump Organization and her own label, US media reported Tuesday.
The reports came just hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced that her husband would take on a top-level job as special advisor to the incoming Republican commander-in-chief.
They suggest an effort by Ivanka Trump, vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization who set up her own company that sells clothes, shoes and jewelry, to comply with ethics laws.
The couple are destined to move from New York to Washington, reportedly snapping up a new home in an upscale neighborhood, but US media do not expect Ivanka to take on a formal job at the moment.
Her husband’s appointment comes despite a federal nepotism law, passed after thenpresident John F. Kennedy appointed his brother as attorney general, that prohibits any president from hiring a relative.
Kushner’s lawyer Jamie Gorelick told the Washington Post said she apply to Kushner’s appointment.
In the past, Trump aides have drawn a distinction between cabinet-level jobs and positions within the White House, suggesting that the latter carry more leeway for the president to appoint whomever he wants.
Kushner’s lawyer has said he will resign as CEO of Kushner Compa and “divest substantial assets in accordance with federal guidelines.”
The Post reported that while his wife plans to resign from the Trump Organization and step away from her company, she will focus -- at least in the short term - on settling her family into Washington.
the election, when her company used her appearance in a family television interview to market a wore during the segment.
The couple’s moves to break their business ties will compound pressure on the president-elect to do the same.
conference since the election on Wednesday, at which he is expected to lay out his own plans for the family business during his tenure at the White House.