Ivanka Trump “has privately said she was naive when she first came to Washington … unprepared for the palace infighting,” the WashPost’s Ashley Parker and Phil Rucker write in a front-pager.
And now: “By many accounts, her trip to South Korea [for the Olympics] was a success and arguably helped lay the groundwork for her father’s surprise decision Thursday to talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.”
- “It was not until the hiring of White House spokesman Josh Raffel last April that she and Kushner aggressively moved to protect their reputations.”
- “Ivanka … sat down with The Post in her office on the West Wing’s second floor — a tucked-away modernist oasis of bright white and clean lines — for two interviews on back-to-back days in late February, portions of which were off the record.”
- “Ivanka argues that every issue she has championed is also a…