'Related to the President or not, no adviser to the President should have carte blanche. And Ivanka looks like she's pretty darn close to that status,' writes CillizzaCNN
In an interview with the Associated Press in the Ivory Coast Ivanka Trump said she talked to her father about the opening but decided against the job -- preferring to stay on in her current role, which has a very fuzzy job description but puts her in the mix on virtually every issue that comes across her father's desk.Trump himself is effusive when talking about Ivanka.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! This is exactly the reason an anti-nepotism law was passed by Congress in the late 1960s -- after John F. Kennedy had named his brother, Bobby Kennedy, as attorney general. It's been clear for a very long time that of the very small number of people the President listens to, his eldest daughter is at the top of that list.
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