Ivanka rejects father Donald Trump's election fraud declare at landmark listening to | World News

Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump advised 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, one among 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 Lawyer Basic (William) Barr. So I accepted what he was saying," Ivanka Trump advised congressional investigators.

And what Barr was saying, Ivanka testified, was that his Justice Division had found no important fraud to help President Trump's declare - one the previous president continues to be making - that huge voter fraud in a number of key states brought about the 2020 election to be "stolen" from him.

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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 considered 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 prime aides. Within the video, the president's son-in-law talked about "whining," referring to prime 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 1000's of supporters outdoors the White Home, repeating his false claims of a stolen 2020 election and urging them to march on the Capitol and "struggle like hell."