Trump reportedly wants Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to go back to New York
- President Donald Trump reportedly wants Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to leave Washington, DC and go back to New York.
- The president is said to have grown increasingly frustrated with Kushner's political advice in recent months.
- Both Kushner and Ivanka are central figures in the Russia investigation, and Trump reportedly wants them to avoid negative press coverage.
President Donald Trump wants his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, to leave Washington, DC and head back to New York, Vanity Fair reported on Tuesday.
Trump reportedly advocates the move because he wants the couple to avoid negative press coverage. He is also said to be growing increasingly frustrated with Kushner.
"He keeps pressuring them to go," one source told Vanity Fair.
Both Kushner and Ivanka are central figures in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Mueller is reportedly investigating Trump's role in crafting a misleading statement his son, Donald Trump Jr., released after it emerged that he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016. Mueller is also building an obstruction-of-justice case against Trump, related to his decision to fire FBI director James Comey in May.
Kushner is a central figure in both events - he attended the June 2016 meeting, and multiple media reports have said that he strongly urged Trump to fire Comey. He was also with Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey during a weekend in early May, when Trump put together a draft letter laying out the reasons he wanted to fire Comey. He never sent the letter - White House counsel Don McGahn advised him against doing so - but he fired Comey days later. That decision ultimately led to Mueller's appointment as special counsel.
Trump is also, according to Vanity Fair, frustrated with Kushner's political advice. Kushner reportedly advocated for Trump to back Alabama Republican candidate Luther Strange in the runoff against Roy Moore, which Strange then lost.
Moore is now in an increasingly competitive race against Democrat Doug Jones to fill the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.