Sad! Jarvanka are going to be lonely

As one of their former friends put it to me, “People who have remained friends with Jared and Ivanka were looking for proof that they weren’t complicit but couldn’t find any.”

There aren’t many friends left, but as of this week, there were plenty of people who would either tolerate Javanka or at least bite their tongues: people who had known them for years, people who’d hold their noses to do business with them, people who didn’t much care for their administration but certainly didn’t mind the lower tax rates, the deregulation, the proximity to power. As such, they kept their disdain quiet, at least beyond their immediate social circles.

That changed on Wednesday. Karlie Kloss, who is married to Kushner’s brother, for instance, hadn’t said much publicly about her in-laws or her conversations with them. Yes, she was public about her support for Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. But she had been careful not to go beyond that, despite the fact that the Kushners had not been particularly warm or kind to her, according to several people familiar with their relationship. On Wednesday, Kloss tweeted that refusing to accept the election results and inciting violence was “anti-American.” When a Twitter user replied asking her to say so to her brother- and sister-in-law, she responded, “I’ve tried.”

Another longtime Kushner associate, Bob Sommer, who represented the Kushner family business and served as the president of the New York Observer, which Jared Kushner once owned and operated, sent messages to Kushner’s father, Charles, and to Ivanka expressing his outrage at what he was witnessing. According to The New York Times, which obtained a copy of the exchange, Sommer sent Charles an email urging him to “get Trump to be an American.” He also sent Ivanka a text telling her that he was “horrified I attended your wedding,” per the Times.

Other longtime friends told me on Thursday that many people who hadn’t wanted to get political were looking to get their feet wet. “It feels like everyone on the Upper East Side is texting me today. Suddenly they all want to join the Resistance,” the former friend said.

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Through a spokesperson, media investor Aryeh Bourkoff, who has cozied up to Kushner, asked the Times’ Ben Smith not to mention his closeness with Kushner in a recent column about D.C. news coverage.

  Vanity Fair

All I can say is, all these people knew exactly who they were. They didn't just find out. (I poor Melania is in her room whining to whomever will listen about how unfair it all is to her. She wasn't at the pre-crash party. Reports were she was measuring carpets.)

Wednesday’s depravity and the couple’s role in it officially made them radioactive. For the last four years, it was easier to say nothing. Last week I could have written a story about Kushner’s role in the Middle East peace process and Ivanka’s positioning for a political future in Florida. But by Wednesday evening, that had all changed.

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And Trump, who could have walked away muttering that it was unfair but with a media and political future ahead of him, couldn’t contain his rage long enough to make it last.

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His daughter and son-in-law lost their power along with him. It didn’t help that they looked craven while everything burned, people around them noted. Ivanka had seemingly been trying to launch her political career, campaigning in Georgia and posting old photos of herself handing out vegetables in Florida, they said. “The finance world knew Jared was in the Middle East when all of this was happening, too, so their self-serving was laid bare,” one person told me. “The narrative going around is that Jared & co. plan to buy up all the distressed assets created by the pandemic he created, like a fucking oligarch.”

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Having any association with them suddenly became the more difficult option. “People used to fear Trump’s wrath,” another former friend of Ivanka’s told me. “Now they fear his affiliation. The stink of his family is nearly impossible to get off. How do you associate yourself with the worst, most toxic people in U.S. history?”

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.