Author of the article: Date of publication: 09 Jun 2022 • 3 hours ago • 2 minutes reading • 462 comments Ivanka Trump appears on a screen as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year long research, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Photo by Jabin Botsford / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ivanka Trump “checked” election issues after the 2020 elections, her father and former US President Donald Trump said on Friday after the publication of the statement in which he said that he did not believe his allegations of electoral fraud.
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A congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol on Thursday released audio recordings in which Ivanka Trump said she did not believe his false allegations that he had been robbed of his 2020 presidential election. Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former US President Donald Trump, who served as a senior adviser during his administration, appears on screen during a select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on June 9. 2022 in Washington, DC Photo by Mandel Ngan – Pool / Getty Images In a post on the social networking platform Truth Social on Friday, Trump sought to downplay his daughter’s involvement in the run-up to the election. Ivanka Trump was one of her father’s most trusted allies during his four years in the White House. “Ivanka Trump did not participate in the examination or study of the election results. “He had been checking out for a long time and, in my opinion, he was just trying to respect Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (it sucks!),” Trump said.
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Trump was referring to an April video video of Ivanka saying he believed then-Attorney General William Barr’s assessment that there was no significant evidence of fraud during the election. “I respect Attorney General (William) Barr. “So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump told congressional investigators. Reuters could not find a representative of Ivanka Trump. There was no immediate response to a request for comment via a personal message on her Instagram account. The commission showed a video of Barr appearing before the commission’s investigators. In this video, Barr called his former boss’s allegations of electoral fraud “bullshit.” Barr had previously been accused of calling Trump’s allegations “real-time bullshit” and confirmed in a clip released Thursday that he had resigned in part because of it. He also called the proposals of Trump and his allies that the voting machines were reversing the votes “complete nonsense” – saying that he rejected them recklessly.
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“I told them it was crazy and they were wasting their time on it,” Barr said. The former president was more successful in convincing Republican voters of this view. A Reuters / Ipsos poll released Wednesday found that 58 percent of Republicans viewed the 2020 election result as fraudulent. Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, another of the former president’s top aides, also testified. In the video, the president’s son-in-law referred to the “lamentation”, referring to top Trump aides who are threatening to resign due to the January 6 attack. The January 6, 2021 uprising came shortly after Trump gave an incendiary speech to thousands of supporters outside the White House, reiterating his false claims of a stolen 2020 election and urging them to march on the Capitol and “fight” like the.
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