And just like that, things got even worse for potentially prison-bound Ivanka Trump / Queerty

Phrase on the road is that Ivanka Trump is in serious peril. A number of media shops, political pundits, and authorized analysts imagine that she’s subsequent in line to be charged within the ongoing prison probe of the Trump Group.

Now, Ivanka’s cousin, Mary Trump, says she doesn’t assume the previous first daughter could have any selection however to flip on her father when the feds inevitably flip their consideration straight towards him.

Chatting with Molly Jong-Quick on the newest episode of the podcast The New Abnormal, Mary stated Ivanka is basically caught between a rock and a tough place and has approach an excessive amount of to lose by staying loyal to her father at this level.

“She’s a lot much less prone to keep loyal than Allen Weisselberg,” the bestselling writer defined, referring to the Trump Group’s CFO who was simply charged with 15 felony counts for evading nearly $2 million in taxes over a 15 12 months interval.

“Allen had a fairly comfortable gig the place he was. And I believe type of, within the grand scheme of issues, as counterintuitive as this may sound, I believe Ivanka has, one, extra to lose and, two, extra to hold onto. Her husband’s household is legitimately very rich.”

Ivanka’s husband, Jared, is claimed to be value round $800 million, largely as a result of his household’s shady actual property enterprise. In the meantime, she’s stated to be value round $300 million, bringing their complete web value as a pair to only over $1 billion.

In response to Mary, defending that $1 billion is extra necessary to Ivanka than defending her personal father.

She made comparable remarks final week in an interview with Rachel Maddow, when she stated that she doesn’t imagine any of Trump’s grownup youngsters will stay loyal to him, calling their relationship “fully transactional and conditional.”

“They’re not going to danger something for him, simply as he wouldn’t danger something for them,” she stated.

Chatting with Jong-Quick, Mary went on to say that she sees numerous similarities between her personal authorized dispute together with her crooked household and the rising case in opposition to Weisselberg, which can be dangerous information for the Trump klan.

“The type of fraud that’s being alleged right here is strictly the type of factor my aunts and uncles did to me,” she stated. “Patterns strongly indicate intent, proper?”

She defined that after her father died, her aunts and uncles allegedly created a shell company to maneuver funds out of the household enterprise in an effort to each steal from her and keep away from paying nearly $500 million in property taxes.

“I believe my case additionally units a precedent for what the fraud case is hopefully going to point out,” she stated.

A fraud case by which Ivanka more and more seems to be extraordinarily shut, if not proper at, the very middle.

As if all that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, at the very least one former Home Republican and Justice Division official is publicly calling on prosecutors to subpoena Ivanka and her siblings to find out what, if any, involvement they’d within the January 6 Capitol riot.

Throughout a panel dialogue at New York College this week, former Rep. Barbara Comstock, who represented northern Virginia for 2 phrases earlier than being ousted by a Democrat Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2018, pushed for Trump’s grownup youngsters to be investigated.

“Nothing has been seemed out from January 6 about what they did that day, how that rally took place, all the individuals who funded the rally, how folks just like the Proud Boys and these, you recognize, Three Percenters, these totally different teams, the white nationalist teams, that had been there,” she stated.

Comstock, who led a number of investigations into the Clinton administration again within the ’90s, additionally urged her fellow Republicans to cease giving into Trump and #TheBigLie, saying, “You owe it to your constituents to face up and inform the reality.”