Revelation of vast 'consulting fees' threatens damage for Ivanka Trump

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

First daughter apparently took nearly $750,000 from the Trump Organization while she was simultaneously an employee

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 2 Oct 2020 03.30 EDT

She has tried to be the acceptable face of Trumpism while seemingly nurturing political ambitions of her own. But Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, did not emerge from recent revelations over his financial affairs unscathed.

A nugget in the New York Times’s investigation into the US president’s tax returns could potentially cause lasting damage to Ivanka, currently a senior adviser to the president and a leading surrogate for his re-election campaign.

She apparently received “consulting fees” paid by the Trump Organization, helping reduce the Trump family’s tax bill, while she was simultaneously an employee of the organization.

“Trump’s private records show that his company once paid $747,622 in fees to an unnamed consultant for hotel projects in Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia,” the Times noted. “Ivanka Trump’s public disclosure forms – which she filed when joining the White House staff in 2017 – show that she had received an identical amount through a consulting company she co-owned.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/02/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-tax-affairs

[ResistantAmerican17]

1. I would argue that the revelations CONFIRM her reputation. She is a vacuous grifter

whose only claim to fame is laundering daddy’s money through a corrupt drumph organization.

[mdbl]

2. Daddy taught her everything he knows

[ResistantAmerican17]

3. Yeah I wonder if she finished her "don't steal from your charity" class yet???

[Sherman A1]

4. She is the one I hope to see

In an orange jump suit.

[Illumination]

7. She might start a new fashion craze!...

[Sherman A1]

11. Yeah, She might

start her own line, who knows.

[ck4829]

5. K&R

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[nattyice]

8. Better lawyer up

Expect charges in 6-8 months, princess

[Journeyman]

9. I understand there's some $26 million that Trump paid in "consultant fees" . . .

in recent years. This 3/4 of a million is just the only payment for which there's some degree of confirmation it may have gone to her. The bigger question, obviously, is where did the other $25 million go -- and which Trumpkins will be caught in this sordid web?

[Ilsa]

10. Did she pay taxes on that income?

I hope she's audited as well.

I'm tired of rich people using shell corps for hiding income and GIFTS, which, if the rest of us had gotten from our parents, we would be paying taxes on.

[aggiesal]

12. Surprise, surprise, surprise, I'll bet Daddy got $747,622 in kick backs from Princess I ! n/t

[Nitram]

13. The entire family's corruption is depthless. Gold-plated on the outside, pure

swamp muck on the inside.

[ck4829]

14. Kick