Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner\u00a0tried to portray themselves as selfless public servants making financial sacrifices when they declined to take public paychecks while serving as White House advisers to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
But the couple \u2015 who last year reportedly spent $30 million on undeveloped property on a Florida island \u2015 nevertheless raked in between $172 million and $640 million in outside income from their myriad business interests during their four years in the Trump administration, according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington\u2019s analysis of financial disclosures released on Monday.<\/p>\n
The exact earnings of the ex-president\u2019s daughter and son-in-law are difficult to determine because \u201cthe income is sometimes in reported in broad ranges\u201d and covered several months before they joined the White House, according to the group.<\/p>\n
But even at the lower end of the estimated scale, the couple\u2019s income works out to around $43 million per year \u2015 or $21.5 million each.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most Trump White House advisers were paid $183,000 per year.<\/p>\n
The majority of Ivanka Trump\u2019s income (around $13 million) came from her ownership stake in the Trump Hotel in Washington, according to CREW. The group described the hotel as \u201cthe locus of influence-peddling in the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ivanka Trump\u2019s attainment of \u201cforeign trademarks to use after leaving the White House may have been her biggest accomplishment,\u201d the group added. Russian, Chinese and Japanese authorities renewed or approved trademarks while her father was in office.<\/p>\n
Jared Kushner, meanwhile, saw his stake in real estate investment platform Cadre soar from being worth between $5 million to $25 million at the beginning of Trump\u2019s administration to between $25 million to $50 million at the end, according to CREW.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the fact that the top White House ethics official determined at one point that it was \u201creasonably necessary\u201d for him to divest from Cadre in order to do his job at the White House, he never did,\u201d CREW\u2019s analysis noted, citing the company\u2019s apparent conflict of interest with the Trump administration\u2019s Opportunity Zones program.<\/p>\n