According to a deep dive into how Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner keep getting flattering “puff pieces” written about them in major media outlets, despite multiple financial scandals, the Daily Beast reports the daughter of President Donald Trump has, over the years, become an expert at working over editors and publishers with tears or threats to get her way.
The Beast’s Hannah Seligson reveals that reporters who have written about the couple, who now serve as unpaid White House advisers, have come to learn that anything that hints of criticism will face quick pushback — both directly and indirectly.
“On August 16, 2016, just a few weeks after his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, had clinched the Republican nomination for president, Esquire magazine ran a story entitled ‘Jared Kushner’s Second Act.’ It was written by veteran journalist Vicky Ward and exposed a number of less-than-flattering details about the then 35-year-old head of his family’s real estate firm, Kushner Companies,” Seligson writes before adding that Ivanka immediately went up the chain of command to get the story pulled.
View the complete October 27 article by Tom Boggioni from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.