Ivanka Trump praised her father’s presidential campaign in an interview with Fortune this week, but said that running for the nation’s highest elected office has not been easy.
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Ivanka Trump says dad Donald Trump’s dustup with Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly following the first Republican presidential debate was “very sensationalized”.
“As a daughter, it’s obviously more complicated”, she added.
Ivanka Trump, the executive vice president of development and acquisitions at The Trump Organization, has led multi-million dollar deals and in 2014 was named to Fortune magazine’s 40 Under 40 list, according to her website. But she’s more ambivalent about whether she’s happy about it.
Part of that plan, the candidate said, was to roll out his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka.
She called that “a complicated question”.
Clinton had only good things to say about Ivanka Trump during a recent interview. She said she was not surprised by her father’s frontrunner status in the GOP and said that whether you love or hate him, his outsider approach has changed the nature of the 2016 campaign.
Even as Ivanka Trump defended her father Wednesday – she said she could not be an executive at his company “if I wasn’t able to excel in that environment”.
This morning Trump appeared in a picture with another Clinton confidante, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who now heads the New America Foundation, but once held one of the top posts at State, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure.
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“He’s a great leader, business man and negotiator”, she explained.
