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The White House should have become a true family business in 2016. Donald Trump (74) wanted to make his daughter Ivanka (38) vice president. This is what former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates (48) wrote in his book “Wicked Games,” due out on October 13.
Consequently, Trump presented his idea in June 2016 when his campaign advisers were discussing who the Republican should nominate for vice president: “What about Ivanka?” Trump is said to have asked at the time. He is said to have promoted her massively: “She’s smart, she’s smart, she looks good and people would love her!”
According to Gates, the proposal was more than an obsession. Ivanka Trump, then 34 and an entrepreneur, had no political experience at the time.
Ivanka did not want
Trump is said to have insisted on his proposal for several weeks. Therefore, staffing has been discussed multiple times, Gates writes. However, Tim Murtaugh, Trump’s communications manager in the current election campaign, contradicts this.
The discussion is said to have finally come to an end when Ivanka intervened: She had told her father that it was not a good idea to nominate her for vice president. Only then did Trump opt for Mike Pence (61), who eventually came to Trump’s side as vice president.
Trump denies all this. He spoke of fake news on Twitter and posted: “Wrong and completely ridiculous. These people are sick! “(gf)