President Trump dismissed daughter Ivanka’s testimony at the January 6 Committee where she said she “accepted” that the 2020 election was not stolen, arguing that she was not involved in “studying” the results.
Ivanka Trump, the first daughter of the 45th President, spoke for eight hours at first public hearings of the January 6 Committee. During the testimony, she was quizzed about a statement from former Attorney General Bill Barr, where he claimed that there was absolutely zero evidence for President Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was fradulent.
In a clip played before the January 6 Committee, Barr said that there was “zero basis” to the idea that voting machines had been compromised. “It affected my perspective,” Ivanka said in response. “I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying,” in what appeared to be a public rejection of her father’s election integrity claims.
Ivanka Trump told the Jan. 6th Committee that she accepted former Attorney General William Barr's statement saying there was no fraud sufficient to overturn the election https://t.co/YjEvScXAAd pic.twitter.com/DTcF4tUiO1
— Bloomberg (@business) June 10, 2022
Unsurprisingly, President Trump did not keep quiet about this crucial part of Ivanka’s testimony, dismissing her knowledge of the 2020 election as lacking.
“Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,” President Trump said in a post on his alternative social media platform, Truth Social. “She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!),” he added.
— Posting Trump’s Truth’s (@PostTrumpTruths) June 10, 2022
It is unclear exactly what President Trump meant by claiming that Ivanka had “checked out.” According to an upcoming book by the New York Times’ Peter Baker and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, were eager to leave Washington DC and President Trump’s inner circle.
Kushner allegedly told Ivanka that only two days after the election, before it had even been called for Joe Biden by mainstream sources, that the couple and their family should move to Miami. The report claims that both him and Ivanka saw the electoral challenge from Trump as “mainly a way of soothing a wounded ego and explaining defeat.”
