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[Pat Mustard]

Frankly, kidnapping one of Trump's seed sounds like a shit idea, as far as crimes go.

1) Trump no longer has any power, and is thus not in much of a position to fill whatever demands they may have.
2) Suppose it is just money: 2015 Trump could probably pay whatever ransom they ask for with ease. 2021 Trump, well, while he isn't exactly broke, it looks like his finances are starting to hang on a thread. While he's not broke yet, it looks like he spent a sizable portion of his wealth in his attempts at winning the Presidency, and his actions in office... well, it's safe to say he's burned his bridges with 97% of the civilised world (and the organisations that didn't cut ties with him for what he did by New Year's Eve 2020, what happened on January 6 almost certainly proved to be a red line.) He's probably not going to get more assets. And that's not even getting into his legal troubles, which are currently threatening to engulf the Trump Organisation, and may very well end up taking Trump himself down with them.
3) Remember how it took FIVE FUCKING MONTHS for J. Paul Getty to finally pay the ransom for his grandson? And bear in mind, Getty was a penny-pinching miser, and Trump is, by almost all accounts, a full-blown sociopath. There'd probably be a non-negligible chance that Trump just wouldn't even give a shit. Even with Barron. Perhaps Ivanka, but that might only be because she's the only blood relative Trump has who can actually run shit properly.

Frankly, as private citizens-cum-billionaires go, Trump may well be the billionaire least likely to give good results when confronted with this scheme.

Trump hasn't been spending any of his own money since 1991, and his sources of finance had gotten increasingly dirty since that series of bankruptcies, such that, well before 2015, he's been in full hock to the Russian mob. If the mini-Trumps ever got kidnapped, it would be their usefulness to a Putain associate which would determine if the ransom got paid.

Oh and Trump doesn't have regard for Ivanka because she's any way competent (she's as dumb as the boys, just not as talky), he just has the hots for her, has done since she hit puberty.