OMG, people. This isjust getting more and more bizarre. From CNN:
Contributing to Ivanka Trump's recent dissatisfaction with Lewandowski were intensifying tensions between Lewandowski and Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, an influential force behind the scenes.
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By this point, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump's brother, had already reached a breaking point with Lewandowski and expressed his frustrations about the campaign operations to his father, according to a senior campaign source.
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It was ultimately Ivanka Trump who sat down with her father on Sunday and convinced him to let Lewandowski go -- even offering an ultimatum of sorts about her own continued involvement with the campaign, according to sources with knowledge of this conversation.
Ivanka Trump — Ivanka freakin’ Trump — gave her father an ultimatum, and the result is today’s big political story?
More here from NewYork magazine, re: this morning’s meeting in Trump Tower with Trump, his son, his daughter, his son-in-law… and Cory, about to get the axe:
New York Magazine reports that Lewandowski participated in a meeting today that included Trump and his adult children: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. A high-level campaign source reportedly talked to NYM about this meeting, and he said that Ivanka Trump led a discussion that ended with Lewandowski’s removal from his position.
This just adds one more level of wackadoo to Trump’s entire campaign. Behind the scenes it seems to be run day-to-day like some local family restaurant or cement pourer or whatever. In other words, the campaign is being run like it’s just another one of Trump’s family-controlled businesses. One of the most influential persons in the 2016 election of the President of the United States is turning out to be… Ivanka Trump?!
I still cannot absorb this.