Trump Hits Back At Daughter Ivanka’s Account That She Accepted His Loss

Former U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed his daughter Ivanka Trump's testimony in connection with the Jan. 6 riot that happened last year.

The New York Times reported that responding to testimony played at the Jan. 6 hearing, the former President said that Ivanka had been “checked out” and was not part of studying the 2020 Presidential election results.

According to BBC, on Thursday, the US House of Representatives select committee televised graphic footage and testimony of the Jan. 6, 2021 raid on the U.S. Capitol. During the hearing, a clip of testimony by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr was played. He said that he had repeatedly dismissed Trump's claims that mass voter fraud had caused him to lose the 2020 election.

An excerpt of Ivanka's interview from April with the committee was also aired. At the time, she was asked about her reaction to Barr's assessment. Trump's daughter and former senior adviser, Ivanka, said that it affected her perspective, and that she respects "Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he was saying."

Later, Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Ivanka was not involved in looking at, or studying, election results, and that 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."

Trump sought to downplay Ivanka's role in his administration at the time of the Jan. 6 riot, but his daughter did still accompany him to rally at the White House Ellipse that happened before the attack on the US Capitol, reported CNN.

On Friday, Select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson dismissed the former President's reaction to Ivanka's testimony. Thompson said that for Trump to somehow insinuate that his "daughter had checked out is disingenuous on his part as a father." He noted that daughters normally know what their fathers are doing, "especially when there is a close relationship."

In April, Ivanka met virtually with the committee for nearly eight hours. She corroborated critical testimony from other witnesses who said that the outgoing President was reluctant to try to stop the rioters despite being asked to do so. Commenting on the committee's interviews with Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, Thompson, said that they kind of supported the fact that Trump was told "he had to do something to stop the Jan. 6 insurrection, and that he had to be public with it; he had to be direct."

Thompson added that in that respect, the committee members have been able to "systematically, with our depositions and interviewing of other witnesses, we've been able to fill in a lot of the gaps."