If Ivanka’s Doing Passover At A Ski Resort, Why The Fancy Family Portrait?

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If the Kushner-Trump clan are spending the Passover holiday at a Canadian ski resort, what’s the deal with the Twitter photo that Trump posted hour before Passover began of her family at the White House?
CNN’s Betsy Klein appears to have cracked the case. That Instagram photo appears to have been taken two months ago, on the day that Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their children attended an interfaith prayer service at the National Cathedral on inauguration weekend.
It appears the Passover Trump-Kushner family photo was taken the Sunday after inauguration following services at the National Cathedral: pic.twitter.com/p0htM7V8Pi
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) April 13, 2017
The Trump-Kushners are wearing exactly the same outfits in the purported Passover photo that they wore to the cathedral, down to their elder son’s high gray socks.
“During #Passover, we reflect on the significance of the exodus from Egypt and celebrate the great freedoms we enjoy today!,” Trump wrote in the photo’s caption. “#ChagPesach”
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