Trump calls his daughter Ivanka a 'very high quality' person but won't say if they've talked about her January 6 committee testimony that undermined his claims about election fraud
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- Trump said that Ivanka Trump "is a very high-quality person" after she gave testimony to the January 6 committee.
- The former president's eldest daughter questioned Trump's lies about the 2020 election at the hearing.
- Trump declined to tell a reporter whether he has spoken to his daughter about her comments.
Former President Donald Trump said that Ivanka Trump is a "very high-quality person" but he refused to tell a reporter if he had spoken to her about her testimony before the House January 6 committee.
"Well, I think she wanted to be nice and respectful," Trump told New York magazine's Olivia Nuzzi said, "She's a very high-quality person, and I don't think she wanted to hurt anybody's feelings."
Trump lashed out at his daughter after lawmakers played portions of Ivanka Trump's deposition last month where she questioned her father's debunked lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In particular, Ivanka Trump said that she took notice when then-Attorney General Bill Barr publicly said that he saw no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the race's outcome.
"I thought that Barr was weak and pathetic, and I think that she doesn't want to hurt somebody's feelings," the former president said. Ivanka had told the panel that she "accepted" Barr's view.
The former president said in response that his daughter, who was also a top White House advisor, was "checked out" as he and his allies continued to push his lies about the election.
"Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results.," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth. "She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General."
When asked if they had spoken about her testimony, the former president only told Nuzzi, "I'd rather not say. I'd rather not say."
The committee has continued to broadcast excerpts from Trump's deposition. On Tuesday, the panel disclosed that Trump thought her dad had most likely lost to Biden "probably prior" to the Electoral College formally voting on December 14, 2020, but added that she found the vote only added to that view.