Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, held a closed-door meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan in New York on Monday.
“It was a productive conversation where Ryan spoke about his 2012 experience and Ivanka shared updates about her father’s campaign,” a source close to Ryan told the Washington Examiner.
The meeting, which campaign sources described as “very positive,” came at the request of Trump, who’s played a major role in facilitating changes that have professionalized her father’s presidential campaign. Ryan and Trump met shortly after he delivered a speech at the Economic Club of New York.
Trump’s meeting with the Wisconsin Republican comes one week after he urged the GOP presidential nominee to release his tax returns ahead of the November election, which the candidate has refused to do so long as he is under audit by the IRS.
Around the same time, however, Ryan offered a tepid endorsement of Trump’s business acumen, telling reporters last Thursday that “having a business guy as president is not the worst idea in the world.”
A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not immediately return the Examiner’s request for comment.
