Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains why neither a current nor a former “first daughter” can expect to keep all details of their lives private.
If the members of the extended Trump family do not like being in the spotlight, then they should think very carefully about — radical idea — staying out of the spotlight. Ivanka could, if she so chose, while away her days as a moneyed Manhattan socialite, leasing her name to manufacturers of tacky handbags and doing…whatever it is that people like her do all day. She could take on whatever inoffensive milk-and-cookies philanthropy seems best to her and mind her own business. If she did so, she could plausibly brush off uncomfortable questions about Daddy. But she works in the White House. She chooses to work in the White House, for whatever inexplicable reason. Getting into politics and then complaining about uncomfortable questions from the press is like becoming a boxer and complaining that people are trying to punch you in the face all day. It’s the job. …
… The Democratic version of Ivanka Trump — Chelsea Clinton — has the same problem. She insists that tough questions for her former friend Ivanka are “fair game,” but complains that in this moment of heightened awareness of sexual misconduct by powerful men — and her father has credibly been accused of rape — her own clan’s ugly history on the subject is a private, family matter. …
… Like Ivanka, Chelsea has made millions of dollars renting her famous surname, as she did during her ridiculous make-believe journalism career. She is an executive of the Clinton Foundation, which has been the recipient of generous donations from, among others, Harvey Weinstein. The head of the Clinton Foundation is an intern-diddling politician who very well may be guilty of much worse, and who was obliged to forfeit his law license for lying about his adventures. Her mother helped to harass and ruin the women who accused her father of sexual misconduct. All of this was done in the pursuit of political power. That isn’t something that is personal to one’s family. That’s politics.