President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump has hinted that she could have a prominent role in the White House.
She spoke to The New York Post about the future and what women can anticipate from the new administration. “I’m excited to share something that will be very forward-facing and allow me to amplify the accomplishments of the incoming Trump administration in the next couple of weeks,” she said.
“This is a man who cares about women,” she said. “And I tell you that as a woman who came into this family … from a background where I had no ability to relate to the Trump family — meaning a business family whose name people knew around the world.
“Donald Trump helped me get to where I am today. And he’s a constant champion for women with whom he surrounds himself,” the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, who is married to his son Eric Trump, said.
She said that there are “so many great examples of strong women around Donald Trump,” which includes his new chief of staff, Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and cabinet picks like South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Linda McMahon, and attorney Alina Habba.
“I think that’s what people who get to know Donald Trump appreciate: He doesn’t care what you look like, he doesn’t care about your religion, he doesn’t care about your gender, he doesn’t care who you love,” she said.
“He cares about whether or not you are going to be able to perform a job to your best ability,” she said. “It’s something I appreciate as a woman because I never want someone to give me a job because of my gender.”
She also predicted that she would see the first woman president in her lifetime, but it would not be a Democrat.
“I actually believe our first female president will be a Republican,” Lara said.
But she said that gender cannot be the reason voters pick a candidate.
“Hillary Clinton tried to tell everyone that they should vote for her because she was a woman: ‘Don’t you want to see a woman as president?’” she said. “There are a lot of women I can think of right now who I would consider voting for for president. But the second you break it down and use that as the reason people should vote for you, I think you lose a lot of people.”
She remembered being with her kids the day that a would-be assassin attempted to take the life of her father-in-law.
“About 15 seconds before this happened, my daughter goes, ‘Look, mom, look who’s on TV. It’s Grandpa.’ And I looked up, and I didn’t see him standing on stage anymore. Eric was in the other room, and he had another TV on with the rally. And he started calling me to come in there, and I immediately knew something had happened,” she said of that day. “I didn’t want my kids to see something horrific. So I changed the channel.”
She remembered how he “got up, and you could see blood on him. And I knew that something was wrong. We started calling people. And honestly, for about 45 minutes to an hour, until we heard directly from him, it was really scary.”
“So Sunday night I had to sit them down and tell them something happened to Grandpa. ‘He’s OK, but he’s got a bandage on his ear,’” she said. “I knew they would see him the next week at the [Republican National] Convention. But it was really tough to tell a four- and a six-year-old that someone had tried to hurt their grandpa.”
Because she is a mom she thinks about the state of the nation and the world her kids are in and how her father-in-law can fix it.
“As a mom, I can tell you it’s something that I consider a lot. My kids are very young, but it starts very early … the way that this creeps into the culture,” the former vice chair of the Republican National Committee said.
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