Ivanka Trump will attend the Republican National Convention, calls Donald’s conviction ‘painful’
Ivanka Trump will be in attendance to support her father when he officially accepts the Republican nomination for president, The Post is told — as she admitted his recent conviction was “painful.”
Despite having left politics, Donald Trump’s daughter — who said in a new interview with podcaster Lex Fridman that politics is a “rough, rough business” and a “pretty dark world” — will watch his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later this month, her spokesperson confirmed.
The RNC will run from July 15-18 at the Fiserv Forum, and Trump sources stressed that Ivanka will not serve in any political capacity at the event, as a delegate, fundraiser or otherwise.
This is in stark contrast to the 2020 RNC where she introduced her father to the stage. She was also a big part of the 2016 convention.
The mom-of-three spoke out about the former president having been found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
“On a human level, it’s my father and I love him very much, so it’s painful to experience, but ultimately, I wish it didn’t have to be this way,” Ivanka, 42, told podcaster Fridman in a new interview out Tuesday.
She previously posted a throwback photo of her and her dad after his conviction, with the message, “I love you dad.”
While both Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, served in the White House during Trump’s presidency — when she was a senior advisor in the administration — she told Fridman she had to protect her kids, Arabella, 12, Joseph, 9, and Theodore, 7.
The family made the move to Miami after leaving Washington, DC, and Ivanka announced she would not be a part of Trump’s 2024 campaign.
“I think first and foremost, it was a decision rooted in me being a parent, really thinking about what they need from me now,” she told Fridman.
“Politics is a rough, rough business and I think it’s one that you also can’t dabble in. I think you have to either be all in or all out.”
“And I know today, the cost [my children] would pay for me being all in, emotionally in terms of my absence at such a formative point in their life. And I’m not willing to make them bear that cost.”
She added, “I think there are a lot of ways you can serve.”
Although Ivanka said she and her husband, 43, discussed the “enormity” of what can be achieved in service, there is something “equally valuable” in helping within your own community.
“I also think for politics, it’s a pretty dark world. There’s a lot of darkness, a lot of negativity, and it’s just really at odds with what feels good for me as a human being,” she said.
It was announced Tuesday that Donald Trump’s sentencing hearing will now take place on September 18, putting it less than two months before the presidential election.
