“Ivanka Trump was not involved in watching or studying the election results. He has been vetting for a long time, in my opinion, for Bill Barr and his attorney general position (he sucked!),” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social.
Although Trump sought to downplay his daughter’s role in his administration during the January 6, 2021 riots, Ivanka Trump came with her father to rally at the White House ellipse before the US Capitol attack.
In a clip of his confession aired Thursday night, Ivanka asked Trump about his reaction when Barr said there was no widespread election fraud.
Ivanka Trump said it has affected my vision. “I respect the Attorney General Bar, so I accepted what he said.”
Selection committee chairman Benny Thompson on Friday dismissed Trump’s reaction to his daughter’s testimony, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett that “somehow indirectly saying that his daughter has been checked out is dishonest on his part as a father. Daughters generally know what they are doing, especially fathers.” When there is a relationship. “
Ivanka Trump met with the committee for nearly eight hours in April, and CNN previously said he had confirmed key testimony from other witnesses, but the president was reluctant to try to stop the rioters, despite being asked to do so.
“They supported the president’s call for something to be done to stop the January 6 uprising. He must be open; he must be direct,” Thompson, of the Mississippi Democrats, told CNN about the group. Interview with Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.
“So in that way … by interviewing our confessions and other witnesses we were able to fill in a lot of gaps as planned,” Thompson said.
The panel also pointed to the closed door form from the bar in which he called Trump’s claims “nonsense.” Bar, who resigned in December 2020, said part of the reason for leaving the Trump administration was Trump’s false allegations (although he did not publicly cite that reason at the time).
“I made it clear that I did not agree with the idea of ​​publishing these things, claiming that the election was rigged. I told the president it was nonsense,” Barr said in a video played by the group on Thursday.
The story was updated on Friday with further improvements.
CNN’s Shawna Michel contributed to the report.
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