Ivanka Trump’s strategy to maximize her influence

Published April 5, 2017 7:00pm ET



In an impressively careful interview with CBS anchor Gayle King, first daughter Ivanka Trump enigmatically predicted that “most of the impact” she has during father’s administration the public “will not actually know about.”

King worked hard over the course of her Tuesday interview to press for an admission from Trump that she’s a subversive liberal sympathist embedded in a Republican administration. For her part, Trump insisted upon keeping any policy differences private, arguing that her discretion allows her to be a more effective advocate on behalf of those ideas when it counts.

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