BULLETIN:  IVANKA THINKS! – AT 11:09 A.M. ET:  Ivanka Trump is smart as a whip, but you'd never know it from some of the reporting, in which she's portrayed as a rich lady married to a rich man, who just bought a rich house in Washington so she could dabble in politics.

Ivanka is anything but a dabbler.  She could probably be president, and might be some day.  From the Daily Mail:   

Ivanka Trump attended a dinner last Thursday with a group of female leaders to discuss women's economic empowerment, suggesting that she will be focusing her energies on these issues after she moves to Washington DC this week.

The dinner was held at the $34m penthouse apartment of her close friend Wendi Deng, and among the invitees who turned up to give Ivanka advice were Tory Burch, Mika Brzezinski, Tina Brown, Christy Turlington Burns, and former White House press secretary Dana Perino.

Pattie Sellers, the executive director of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, was another guest at the dinner, and wrote about the evening for Fortune.

'Trump explained that she wanted to learn from the efforts of leaders in their fields,' said Sellers.
'We talked about entrepreneurship, equal pay, paid leave, and a lot about where the Donald Trump Administration may have the most opportunity: education.'

Also on hand Thursday night was Goldman Sachs executive Dina Powell, who the Trump team announced earlier that same day would be joining the administration in a senior role focused on entrepreneurship, economic growth and the empowerment of women.

It is expected that Ivanka will now be working closely with Powell once her father is in the White House.

Powell put the dinner together on Thursday, and was in charge of coming up with the guest list for the event.

COMMENT: I suspect that Ivanka will turn out to be one of the most interesting people in Washington in the next four years.  Her husband will be a counselor to the president, and together they will be Washington royalty.

I fear she may be a Democrat, but I'm hopeful that she is not.  Smart she is.

January 16, 2017