\nAccording to CityServe via DailyMail, Ivanka and the team provided families with places to sleep, access to food banks, and more places that held essential goods. Along with that, Ivanka reportedly used her contacts “to persuade other businesses to give supplies to residents of Maui,” which led to about $1 million in goods being transported to Maui.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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SURFSIDE, FL – January 13: Ivanka Trump is seen in a meeting on January 13, 2023 in Surfside, Florida. (Photo by MEGA \/ GC Images)<\/span><\/p>\n \nBack in Aug 2023, Donald Trump did leave a message on his social media platform Truth Social, saying: “I would like to express my sympathy and warmest regards to the people of Hawaii, and specifically all of those who have been so gravely and irreparably hurt by the tragedy of the wildfires in Maui, something the likes of which have seldom been seen anywhere at any time,” per Truthpost.<\/p>\n \n(But then he took a jab at Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D), claiming that Green wanted “to do nothing but blame [the wildfires] on global warming and other things that just popped into his head.”)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related story <\/p>\n Resurfaced Details Reveal the Simple Reason Two of Donald Trump\u2019s Kids Didn\u2019t Vote for Him Back in 2016<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n \nMany speculate that this unexpected move shows another step Ivanka may be taking to step further away from her family’s political aspirations, despite musings of her allegedly wanting to rejoin politics.<\/p>\n Socialite Ivanka Trump attends The (RED) Auction to benefit AIDS in Aftica cocktail party at the Gagosian Gallery on February 13, 2008 in New York City. EXCLUSIVE<\/strong> Exclusive<\/em><\/strong> (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage)<\/span><\/p>\n \nOnce Ivanka announced her departure from politics in Nov 2022, she has been seen spending more time with her children at sporting events, and doing more low-key family activities. This charity act isn’t unheard of from her, considering she’s worked with charities in the past like AIDS LIFE, Children’s Aid Society, Habitat For Humanity, and more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \nBut this does show she could be edging herself more and more into being known outside of the Trump family. Attorney and legal analyst Andrew Lieb previously said to Insider: “My gut feeling is she’s a Kushner. And she’s not 100% with both feet in the Trump orbit. Jared has his own world and his own orbit — and we all know about his father’s own issues, but it’s a lot more stable brand, a lot less visible brand. They’ve got a lot going on over in the Kushner clan, and she has her kids and her family. That’s a different world.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/trump-1.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\")
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