It looks like the controversy over President Donald Trump’s associates having questionable contacts with Russian officials isn’t going away anytime soon. And this past week, someone else very close to Trump was caught up in it.

The New Yorker revealed that Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump and Trump’s loyal son-in-law and White House senior advisor, was present during the previously undisclosed December meeting between recently ousted National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States.

The meeting took place at Trump Tower and lasted 10 minutes — merely an introductory meeting to “establish a line of communication” between the incoming administration and the Russian government, the White House said.

Whether or not the meeting was perfectly routine, Kushner’s name has joined the list of others in Trump’s circle, including son Donald Trump Jr., who have had contacts or relationships with Russian officials that are drawing scrutiny.

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Ivanka Trump gets dumped by Nordstrom: Bay Area-led boycott scores victory Some on the list have already faced consequences. Flynn was fired from his role as a national security adviser after he misled the administration about his conversations with Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing calls from Democrats to resign, has agreed to recuse himself from investigations into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia after news emerged that he, too, had spoken privately with the ambassador.

Not on this list is Ivanka Trump, the president’s favorite child and his proxy on working women’s issues. Maybe that’s because she never had any official role in Trump’s campaign and has yet to take an official position in her father’s White House.

But does her lack of official title mean she wasn’t privy to some of the inner workings of the campaign or isn’t knowledgeable about his web of international business connections? Along with her husband, she has been described as one of her father’s most trusted advisors. And, like her brother Donald Jr., she was a vice president in their father’s Trump Organization before she decided to relocate with her family to Washington DC.

Moreover, reports in various outlets over the the course of her father’s campaign and transition suggest that she has some intriguing Russia connections of her own.

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In fact, Ivanka has gone so far as to publicize these connections, including her close friendships with a Russian oligarch’s wife and with the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, who at one point was rumored to be dating Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Maybe Ivanka feels OK tweeting or posing for press photos with these people because her contacts with them are merely social. Then again, broadcasting these friendships won’t do much to quiet the Marie Antoinette comparisons because they center around what appears to be a chummy network of billionaires who enjoy, among other things, vacations on different people’s luxury yachts.

Broadcasting these connections also comes off as politically questionable as her father, family and the Trump administration face mounting questions about conflicts of interest and their dealings with a country that interfered in our presidential election.

Either Ivanka is naive, tone deaf to “optics,” or a master at compartmentalizing. Or maybe she just doesn’t care if her fellow Americans are concerned about the Russia issue. Maybe she’s saying, I’m Ivanka Trump and I do what I want, and she’s trolling us when she makes note of these connections on social media.

Whatever Ivanka is thinking at this point, here is a summary of how her social network could bring her name into the Russia scandal.

Jared’s business dealings

Ivanka’s 36-year-old husband, through his family’s own multibillion-dollar business, has some loose connections to Russian business interests, according to the New York Times, including an investment from billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner in a real estate investment company.

The oligarch’s wife

Ivanka is good friends with Dasha Zhukova, the art-collector wife of oligarch Roman Abramovich, one of the richest men in Russia. Abramovich isn’t just the owner of the Chelsea soccer club; he’s reportedly a member of Putin’s inner circle.

In early 2016, the Daily Mail reported that Abramovich had given Putin a $35 million yacht. A Russian official, who ran a state-run shipping firm, told the Daily Mail he oversaw Abramovich’s transfer of the 187-foot Olympia, which sleeps 10 guests, to Putin.

In September, Ivanka and Jared were photographed together with Zhukova in VIP seats, watching the U.S Open tennis finals. Also in the box was Wendi Deng, who is good friends with both Zhukova and Ivanka, as well as billionaire entertainment mogul David Geffen and Princess Beatrice of York.

Ivanka’s most high-profile gesture of friendship towards Zhukova came when she invited her to be a guest at her father’s weekend inauguration festivities, tweeted Politico senior writer Jake Sherman on Jan. 19.

DASHA ZHUKOVA, wife of Russian industrialist billionaire ROMAN ABRAMOVICH, is here for inauguration. Guest of IVANKA, per source. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 19, 2017

It should be noted that Zhukova may not share her friend’s political leanings — having reportedly donated $2,700 to the campaign of former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2015.

Ivanka and Jared wanted controversial Paul Manafort to be in charge

During one August week, Trump and his close associates found themselves in the hot seat for their apparent friendliness to Russia and to Russian interests.

On Sunday, August 14 the New York Times issued an explosive report on a secret cash payment of $12.7 million that had been earmarked for Trump’s then-campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort. That $12.7 million came from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

Manafort, by the way, had at one point worked as a senior adviser for pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. He also owed his powerful position in the Trump campaign to Ivanka and Jared, according to Vanity Fair.

Trump’s original campaign manager Cory Lewandowski was fired after he allegedly tried to shop negative stories about Jared to media outlets. Ivanka reportedly threatened her father she would leave the campaign if Lewandowski stayed, and she and Jared pushed for Manafort to be brought in to supposedly bring more professionalism to the campaign.

But Manafort lasted less than two months. Four days after the August 14 Times report ran, Manafort resigned.

Her summer vacation with Wendi Deng, rumored girlfriend of Putin

On the week that things hit the fan over Manafort’s troublesome Russia ties, Ivanka and Jared went on a European vacation. That trip may have involved some yachting in the Adriatic but it definitely included sightseeing in Dubrovnik, Croatia, with Deng.

On the very same Sunday that the Times published its Manafort expose, Ivanka posted on Instagram a photo of herself with Deng. The two look slender, rich and casually stylish as they hugged and posed for the photo, with the coastal city’s picturesque old town as their backdrop.

There are several ways political observers found this photo curious, even problematic. To Emily Jane Fox at Vanity Fair, Ivanka displayed the ultimate act of compartmentalization by posting it. She said that Ivanka was celebrating her friendship with Deng as her father’s campaign had a “number of fires burning,” including emerging reports about Manafort’s Russia ties.

Fox and others picked up on Deng’s rumored personal relationship with Putin. In March 2016, Us magazine first revealed the rumors that the recently divorced Deng was dating the recently divorced Russian autocrat, whose worth is estimated to be as high as $200 billion (though he claims he only draws a $100,000 annual salary as Russian president).

As Vanity Fair noted, it’s unclear how accurate the Us report was, though the tabloid has said these rumors had been traveling among a certain billionaire set for some time.

And once again, Putin’s good friend Abramovich made a cameo in this narrative with Us saying that Deng had been spotted boarding the oligarch’s St. Barths–docked yacht.

Otherwise, it’s not all that unexpected that Ivanka would go on a jet-set vacation with Deng. Their friendship goes way back, with Deng reportedly being responsible for re-uniting Ivanka and Jared after they broke up in 2008 over their religious differences.

An August 2016 New Yorker profile of the aspiring Jared and Ivanka explained how Deng — and another yacht — played a role in this reconciliation. Back when Deng was still married to News Corp. chief Murdoch, she invited Jared to spend a weekend on the Murdoch family yacht, without letting him know Ivanka would be there. True love prevailed: Ivanka later converted to Judaism, and the couple married in 2009.

Deng denied that she was dating Putin in a Vogue magazine profile that was published just before she and Ivanka went sightseeing in Dubrovnik. “I’ve never met Putin,” Deng told Vogue.

So maybe Deng was telling the truth, and she never was Putin’s girlfriend. But the rumors were still flying fast and furious enough in August that it probably wasn’t the “sharpest political move” for Ivanka to broadcast her link to Deng, Fox said.

Only someone with a habit of building mental walls between herself and her father’s foibles would publicize a European holiday with a friend whose associations wouldn’t look good for her father’s campaign, Fox said.

But there’s another theory, and it’s that Ivanka knew exactly what she was doing when she posted that photo. It could be her way of thumbing her nose at people who don’t like her father or who she thinks are making too much of a fuss about the Russia issue.

Currently, the FBI and House and Senate intelligence committees, along with the Senate Armed Services Committee, are examining Russian interference in the election.

But if Ivanka is concerned about the brewing Russia storm, or her father’s latest early morning twitter rant, accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping his phone, she didn’t let on as of Sunday afternoon.

That’s when she returned to true compartmentalizing form by posting this idyllic golf course moment of her young children on Instagram, captioned “Sunday in Palm Beach!” Yes, the Marie Antoinette comparisons have started to come in.

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