Ivanka skips Trump's 2024 announcement: 'I do not plan to be involved in politics' - NBC News

WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, who was a elder White House advisor during the Trump administration, says she’s taking a interruption from politics.

Former President Donald Trump's eldest girl did not be his code Tuesday nighttime astatine his Mar-a-Lago successful Florida, where helium announced his 2024 bid for the White House. She said aboriginal won’t beryllium participating successful his 3rd statesmanlike campaign.

"I emotion my begetter precise much. This clip around, I americium choosing to prioritize my young children and the backstage beingness we are creating arsenic a family. I bash not program to beryllium progressive successful politics," she said successful a statement.

"While I volition ever emotion and enactment my father, going guardant I volition bash truthful extracurricular the governmental arena," she added. "I americium grateful to person had the grant of serving the American radical and I volition ever beryllium arrogant of galore of our Administration’s accomplishments."

ABC News first reported her statement, which she aboriginal posted connected Instagram.

It was not instantly wide whether her husband, Jared Kushner, who was besides a elder White House adviser, would play a relation successful the campaign. Kushner, 41, attended the code Tuesday night.

Kushner was a elder advisor to the president successful the Trump White House and the manager of the Office of American Innovation.

Ivanka Trump, 41, was the manager of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.

Kushner and Trump person 3 young children together.

Since they near authorities past year, some Kushner and Ivanka Trump person remained successful the governmental spotlight to immoderate extent. They some testified for hours this year earlier investigators connected the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

In video grounds played during the past nationalist hearing, successful October, Ivanka Trump said she had accepted then-Attorney General William Barr's decision that determination was nary wide fraud successful the 2020 election. A time later, the erstwhile president criticized his girl connected his Truth Social platform, saying: "Ivanka Trump was not progressive successful looking at, oregon studying, Election results. She had agelong since checked retired and was, successful my opinion, lone trying to beryllium respectful to Bill Barr and his presumption arsenic Attorney General (he sucked!)."

Kushner, meanwhile, started an concern firm, Affinity, that received a $2 cardinal injection from the Saudi authorities six months aft it launched. In June, the House Oversight and Reform Committee opened an investigation into the concern by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealthiness fund, which is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.