'Broken doll' Ivanka buried for covering for Donald Trump's crimes

In a brutal column for the New York Times, the author of “The Trump Women: Part of the Deal,” buried Ivanka Trump for willingly covering for the crimes of her father and looking the other way in her drive for power and popularity.

According to author Nina Burleigh, Donald Trump's elder daughter has spent her life in "awe" of her father and, "Aware of her father’s expectations about women within camera frame of him, she styled herself to doll-like perfection."

However, as Burleigh notes, Ivanka walked away from her father since the Jan. 6 insurrection that she watched with him from inside a tent close by to the riot — only to return to the fold this past week when she testified in the $250 million financial fraud trial taking place in a Manhattan courtroom.

In an interview with the columnist, Alexandra Wrage, founder of business corruption watchdog Trace, said of Ivanka Trump, "I don’t think there is any way Ivanka could have operated in these circles for as long as she has, in the shadow of her father, with these thuggish characters, and not have had questions about the qualities of her business partners.”

Using that as a leaping off point, Burleigh wrote, "She was the female future of the Trump brand, raised in the gilded tower Dad built, with a taste for power and power chairs, and he gave her that, the West Wing office and the woman stuff as her charge. She offered him elegance and old money diction and bulletproof resistance to humiliation. And for cognitive dissonance, no one better: She tweeted support for Time’s Up when the time came. Sometimes he even listened to her. She — or her tears anyway — may very well have helped extract the public apology for the 'Access Hollywood' tape."

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All of that, the columnist wrote, is now falling apart.

"A broken doll, maybe, impeccably repaired, she didn’t flinch passing the small crowd of New Yorkers chanting, 'Fraud family!' Her dad and her brothers and the New York attorney general appear to have finished off or, at the very least, vastly diminished the business that her great-grandmother started but for which she got no credit — credit that could have made for such great optics, if only her dad had been willing to give a woman credit and to celebrate that he was a son and grandson of immigrants," she wrote before summing up, "Maybe power tastes like ashes now."

You can read the whole piece here.