Ivanka Trump says she does not believe her father’s claim
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Ivanka Trump told a House panel on January 6 that she agreed with William Barr's assessment that voter fraud claims had "zero basis."
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Ivanka Trump, former senior adviser to Donald Trump, during a hearing of the Select Committee. (Bloomberg)
Former White House adviser and Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump told the congressional panel investigating the insurgency at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, that she does not believe her father's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him due to voting fraud.
Ivanka Trump appeared in a video deposition, which was shown to the public for the first time during the House panel's first hearing.
She stated that her perspective had shifted after learning that William Barr, Trump's attorney general for the majority of 2020 until his resignation in December, had repeatedly explained to her father that he had lost the election.
Ivanka Trump openly told congressional investigators: “I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying.”
Barr had said that his Justice Department had discovered no significant fraud to back up Donald Trump's claim – which the former president still makes – that massive voter fraud in several key states caused the 2020 election to be "stolen" from him.
The committee played a video of Barr's appearance before the committee's investigators. Barr said in the video that he had "repeatedly told the president in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud that would have affected the outcome of the election."
“And, to be honest, I still haven't a year and a half later," he tersely stressed.
He went on to say that he told the president at the time that his allegations that the election was rigged against him had "zero basis."
Furthermore, Barr stated that he spoke with Trump shortly after the November 2020 election results and "made it clear to him that I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit, and I didn't want to be a part of it."
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When Ivanka Trump was asked by committee investigators how Barr’s words changed her stance about the election, she responded by saying that “it affected my perspective.”
