Ivanka Trump says she does not believe father’s
claim 2020 election was stolen
Ex-president’s daughter tells House January 6 panel
she accepted William Barr’s view that voter fraud claims had ‘zero basis’
Maanvi
Singh and agencies
@maanvissingh
Thu 9 Jun
2022 22.35 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/09/ivanka-trump-election-not-stolen-testimony
Donald
Trump’s daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump told the congressional
panel investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, that
she does not believe her father’s false claims that the 2020 election was
stolen from him because of voting fraud.
Ivanka
Trump was seen in a video deposition, shown to the public for the first time
during the first hearing of the House panel.
She spoke
of her perspective being changed after hearing that Bill Barr, who was Trump’s
attorney general for most of 2020, until he resigned that December, had
explained to her father repeatedly that he had lost the election.
“I respect
Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump told
congressional investigators.
And what
Barr was saying was that his justice department had discovered no significant
fraud to support Donald Trump’s claim – one the former president is still
making – that massive voter fraud in several key states caused the 2020
election to be “stolen” from him.
The
committee showed a video of Barr’s appearance before panel investigators. In
that video, Barr called his former boss’s fraud claims “bullshit” and said 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
frankly, a year and a half later, I still haven’t.”
He added
that he told the president at the time that there was “zero basis” for his
allegations that the election was rigged against him.
Barr said
he spoke to Donald Trump shortly after the November 2020 result and “I 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.”
Ivanka
Trump was asked by committee investigators how Barr’s words affected her
perspective about the election.
“It
affected my perspective,” she said.
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