IVANKA TRUMP once sent a cryptic message to the Kremlin by having an employee of her father’s plead with Vladimir Putin’s security detail to let her sit in the Russian President’s chair during a private tour, a book has revealed.
Ms Trump
went to Moscow in 2006 with Russian-born Felix Sater, who was acting as
her part-time on-the-job tutor. According to the 2019 book ‘Kushner
Inc’, the pair were visiting the capital on a scouting trip and while
they were there took a private tour of the Kremlin. Author Vicky Ward
wrote: “[Mr Sater] pleaded with a member of Vladimir Putin’s security
detail to allow her to sit, briefly, in the Russian President’s chair."
By the time he met Mr Trump, he had joined a development firm, Bayrock Group, and apparently the real estate mogul “wanted him close”.
Mr Sater and his colleagues worked in Trump Tower just two floors down from the future President.
Mr Trump would repeatedly ask him which of his children should take over his company, to which he would say Ivanka because she “had the biggest set of balls in the room”.
Recalling working with the future First Daughter, he said: “There was a lot of yelling back and forth.
“She was a born promoter. Her appearance and her tenacity made Donald look and her and say ‘Wow. She knows how to get shit for free and get her name on stuff.’”
In 2007, Mr Sater’s past was exposed in the New York Times and he retreated to London where he would attract less scrutiny.
However, he returned to the US in 2010 and Mr Trump made him a senior adviser, which he felt Ms Trump was not happy about.
“She was a born promoter. Her appearance and her tenacity made Donald look and her and say ‘Wow. She knows how to get shit for free and get her name on stuff.’”
In 2007, Mr Sater’s past was exposed in the New York Times and he retreated to London where he would attract less scrutiny.
However, he returned to the US in 2010 and Mr Trump made him a senior adviser, which he felt Ms Trump was not happy about.
Ms Ward wrote: “As a joint venture partner, Sater had been valuable to Ivanka, but as a senior adviser with unfettered access to her father, he was a threat, or that’s how he felt she perceived him.
“Trump had started to ask Sater questions about Ivanka’s deals and, according to Sater, she bristled at this.”
In the end, Ms Trump persuaded her reluctant father to fire Mr Sater, despite his protestations that he was “a moneymaker”.
This moment demonstrated how much power she really had over her father.
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