Just five short years ago Jared and Ivanka were dinner-party royalty here in Manhattan. I’m told that their manners were impeccable, so you’d never know that his father was an actual felon and her father a de facto one. Jared and Ivanka are about to be held accountable. They chose to tether their fortunes to her father’s, chose to go along for the ride, chose to see how far it could take them, because what if it took them all the way? What if Ivanka became the first female president, something that Manhattan acquaintances of hers assured me that she fantasized about, a giddy possibility that her father floated out loud.

Source: International New York Times November 16, 2020 09:56 UTC