Ivanka Trump tells U.S. Congress she rejects father’s election fraud claim
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump instructed a congressional panel investigating the U.S. Capitol assault that even she doesn’t consider the previous president’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat resulted from widespread voting fraud.
Ivanka Trump, certainly one of her father’s most trusted allies throughout his 4 years within the White Home, appeared in a video deposition proven through the first in a sequence of congressional hearings by a Home of Representatives choose committee investigating the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault.
“I respect Legal professional Basic (William) Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump instructed congressional investigators.
And what Barr was saying, Ivanka testified, was that his Justice Division had found no important fraud to assist President Trump’s declare – one the previous president continues to be making – that large voter fraud in a number of key states induced the 2020 election to be “stolen” from him.
The committee confirmed a video of Barr’s look earlier than panel investigators. In that video, Barr referred to as his former boss’ fraud claims “bullshit”
The previous president has been extra profitable in persuading Republican voters of this view. A Reuters/Ipsos ballot accomplished on Wednesday discovered that 58% of Republicans seen the result of the 2020 election to be the results of fraud.
Additionally proven testifying was Ivanka husband, Jared Kushner, one other of the previous president’s high aides. Within the video, the president’s son-in-law talked about “whining,” referring to high Trump aides threatening to resign due to the Jan. 6 assault.
The Jan. 6, 2021, riot adopted shortly after Trump gave an incendiary speech to hundreds of supporters exterior the White Home, repeating his false claims of a stolen 2020 election and urging them to march on the Capitol and “combat like hell.”
(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Enhancing by Scott Malone and Will Dunham)
