In Part I of my review of Kushner, Inc. by Vicky Ward, we looked at the rise of the Kushner Crime Family. In Part II, we looked at their fall.
In Part III, we will look at the sections of the book covering the entrance of Ivanka Trump into the Kushner Crime Family, and their return to prominence following the release of their patriarch from prison.
The look into Ivanka’s life is enlightening.
Most interesting is that Trump is being portrayed as a horrible father, and that Ivanka wanted in the Kushner Jewish clan because it gave her a sense of belonging.
Charlie Kushner once said the reason Ivanka Trump so badly wanted to become a Kushner was that she’d never had a close-knit family; it appeared that she never felt her parents desperately desired her presence at the dinner table, or for that matter, ever wanted her with them. A friend at the Chapin School, the exclusive all-girls’ private school in Manhattan that Ivanka attended until she was fifteen, once brought her home for the weekend. When she complained to Ivanka that her mother was being overly critical, Ivanka said wistfully: “I wish my mother showed that much interest in me.”
Another friend, a real estate heir from New York who is several years older, said, “The dysfunction and loneliness of Ivanka’s family, the absence of her parents from her life, put her in a situation where she was vulnerable.”
This is not particularly hard to believe.
Trump was a divorcer, a philander and a workaholic. Ivana, Trump’s first wife and the mother of Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka, was also an apparently very self-absorbed individual.
I can’t imagine that the kids got much attention.
Ivanka had basic and relatable millennial divorce child problems through high school, and she started modeling while enrolled at an elite Connecticut boarding school.
While she was at Choate, Ivanka’s modeling career took off, which meant she spent less time on campus than many of her peers. It was around this time that her classmates detected pronounced changes in her physical appearance. She would not have been the only person in high school to get her nose fixed, but she would have been one of a tiny number whose chest size seemed to change suddenly, and significantly. (She would later say she was a “curvy” person and told GQ that rumors she had gotten breast implants were “absurd”; she had no issue with anyone who got plastic surgery, but thought it was a “silly” topic to discuss.)
Hmm.