Ivanka Trump Keeping Stake In D.C. Hotel Despite White House Role, Filings Show
Ivanka Trump is keeping her stake in Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., while she serves as an assistant to her father in the White House, financial filings show, according to The New York Times.
Financial documents filed by her husband, Jared Kushner, who serves as senior adviser to President Donald Trump, reveal that she earned between $1 million and $5 million from January 2016 to March from the hotel, the Times reports. The couple’s combined business assets are valued at $741 million, according to Kushner’s 54-page document filed on Friday.
Kushner earned close to $180 million last year, while Ivanka Trump earned $10 million, NBC reported Saturday.
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The Trump family’s continued business holdings have raised serious ethical concerns about how the president, his elder daughter and son-in-law can fairly serve the interests of the public as they remain private business owners looking out for their own vast operations.
Analysts believe the Trump International Hotel is of particular concern because large amounts of money and time that lobbyists or foreign countries could spend there as a way to curry favor with its owners in regards to government business. The government of Kuwait, for example, held a single-night fete at the hotel in February that was estimated to cost $60,000.
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