Ivanka Trump enjoyed some quality time with her seven-year-old son, Theodore, on Monday evening as they cheered on the Miami Heat during game four of the first round of the NBA playoffs.
The former White House senior adviser looked world’s away from her father’s legal woes while sitting courtside with her youngest child wearing a form-fitting black sleeveless top tucked into white wide-leg pants.
She cinched her waist with a thick black belt and topped off her look with a pair of black strappy sandals and a dark red crossbody bag. Her long blonde hair was dried straight and worn loose around her shoulders.
Ivanka, 41, documented the Miami Heat’s 119-114 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on her Instagram Stories, breaking her social media silence for the first time since her father’s historic arrest earlier this month.
Ivanka Trump treated her seven-year-old son, Theodore, to courtside seats at the Miami Heat playoff game in Miami on Monday evening
The 41-year-old mom a form-fitting black sleeveless top tucked into white wide-leg pants
Ivanka took to Instagram Stories to share photos of the game, breaking her social media silence for the first time since her father’s arrest on April 4
Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler scored a franchise playoff record 56 points at the game, and she shared footage of him shooting a free throw from her courtside seats.
The mom also posted a snapshot of herself smiling brightly as she posed with her son Theodore inside the stadium.
She stood behind him with her hands resting on her chest, revealing the red string bracelet she has been wearing off and on for years.
Although she hasn’t spoken about the purpose of the bracelet, it does bear a resemblance to the type of red string that Kabbalah practitioners wear to ward off the ‘evil eye.’
Little Theodore was dressed in a number 14 Miami Heat T-shirt, gym shorts, and a pair of blue high-top sneakers. His missing front tooth was visible as he smiled for the camera.
Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, are also parents to an eleven-year-old daughter, Arabella, and a nine-year-old son, Joseph, who were not at the game.
The family relocated to Florida in January 2021 after Ivanka’s father, former President Donald Trump, left the White House.
They have spent the past two years living at Arte Surfside, a luxury condominium building nestled between Miami Beach and Bal Harbour.
Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler scored a franchise playoff record 56 points at the game, and Ivanka shared footage of him shooting a free throw from her courtside seats
The Miami Heat defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 119-114 during the fourth game of the first round of the NBA playoffs
Ivanka has been living a life of leisure since she officially quit politics in November, but she’s not free of Washington, D.C. — or her family’s legal woes — just yet.
Last month, she asked for a delay in bringing New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million fraud lawsuit against The Trump Organization to trial.
Ivanka left the Trump Organization in 2017 to join her father’s White House administration.
Her lawyers argued that the fraud complaint ‘does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements.’
Ivanka and Jared were also both issued subpoenas in February by the special counsel investigating Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the January 6 Capitol riots.
The former first daughter was in the White House during the Capitol riot and urged her father to address his supporters. She was also in the Oval Office when the then-president asked Pence to block or delay the congressional vote to certify the election.
Jared flew home from the Middle East as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, and he also tried to get his father-in-law to tell them to go home.
Both were featured prominently in hearings by the House January 6 Committee after providing videotaped testimony.
Ivanka has distanced her father in recent months, but she did make a statement about her father’s historic indictment in late March, a few days before his arrest
Ivanka (pictured with her father in 2017) was a senior White House senior adviser in the Trump administration. She officially quit politics in late November
Donald Trump made history on April 4 when he stood in a Manhattan court and became the first former U.S. president to be indicted on criminal charges
Ivanka made headlines with her comments backing former Attorney General Bill Barr’s insistence there was no widespread fraud in the election.
She has distanced her father in recent months, but she did make a statement about her father’s historic indictment in late March, a few days before his arrest.
‘I love my father and I love my country. Today I am pained for both,’ she wrote in a brief post that appeared on her Instagram Stories. ‘I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.’
Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree after he surrendered to authorities in New York City on April 4, making him the first U.S. president to be charged with a crime.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges involving three different payments, including a $130,000 payment Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Cohen said he made the payment at Trump’s direction to ensure Daniels would not go public with her story of a sexual encounter with him.
Trump reimbursed Cohen while he was president and prosecutors said that is when the fraud accord. Trump’s company falsely classified the repayment to Cohen as legal expenses, but prosecutors say there were no such expenses.
The alleged affair with Daniels happened in 2006, long before Trump entered politics, and shortly after his wife, Melania Trump, gave birth to their son Barron.
The other two were indirect payments involving the National Enquirer.
Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges involving a $130,000 hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign
The charges also include indirect payments to former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin (left) and former Playboy model Karen McDougal (right)
Trump is on trial this week for the accused of the rape of writer E. Jean Carroll (pictured arriving at Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday)
The Enquirer paid $30,000 to Dino Sajudin, a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock. The tabloid later determined that was not true.
The Enquirer then made another payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who wanted to sell her story of an affair with Trump during the 2016 campaign. The tabloid paid her $150,000 for rights to her story and then suppressed it — a practice known as ‘catch and kill.’
The prosecution claims the incidents show Trump plotted to buy damaging stories about himself to keep it under wraps and help his chances of winning the 2016 presidential race.
Trump denies having affairs with McDougal and Daniels, as well as any legal wrongdoing.
After pleading not guilty to the charges, he returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where he railed against the indictment hours later.
Melania was mysteriously absent from her husband’s speech, but her father, Viktor Knavs, was present. He sat sandwiched between Trump’s two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
The former president’s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, was also in attendance to support her father, but Ivanka skipped the family event.
Trump is also on trial this week for the accused of the rape of writer E. Jean Carroll.
Jury selection began in Manhattan on Tuesday in a trial over the former advice columnist’s claim that Trump attacked her nearly three decades ago in a department store dressing room.
The trial will take place in a federal civil court, meaning he will not face jail time regardless of the outcome.
Trump, who was a no-show at court on Tuesday, has denied the allegations and claimed that Carroll made them to boost sales of her 2019 memoir.
The case is expected to last at least a week or two, but it is unclear if the former president will appear at any time to testify under oath.
However, the trial may still be politically damaging for the Republican, who is again running for president in 2024. It comes as President Biden announced his re-election campaign in a three-minute video on Tuesday.
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