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Trump furious with Ivanka! Former president's daughter says she doesn't believe 2020 election was stolen

"Ivanka Trump was not involved in observing or studying the election results. She was long gone," Trump posted on Truth Social

June 10, 2022 11:46am

Updated: June 10, 2022 2:29pm

Donald Trump contradicted his daughter Ivanka Trump after her testimony before the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed that she did not believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

His words, given in a videotaped statement, were played during Thursday night's prime-time hearing.

The former president said on Friday that Ivanka was "not involved in reviewing" the 2020 election results.

"Ivanka Trump was not involved in observing or studying the election results. She was long gone [from the White House] and, in my opinion, was just trying to be respectful of Bill Barr and his position as attorney general (he sucked)," Trump wrote on Truth Social, the network he helped establish after he was banned from using Twitter. 

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It was a shocking turn of events. Trump and his daughter were known for their close relationship—she was seen as his favorite daughter. She served as an advisor in his White House, and Trump used to say that she could one day be president.

Trump had turned on other advisers who testified before the panel and refused to back up his false claim that he won the 2020 election over Joe Biden.

But Ivanka was believed to have testified before the panel with her father's tactful approval.

In a series of posts on Truth Social, the former president denied saying that his vice president Mike Pence should be hanged for not supporting his false claim that he won the election. He also claimed that he was the real winner of the elections and chastised lawmakers for not investigating his allegations of voter fraud, which were never proven.

In the clip of her testimony given to the committee, Ivanka Trump is shown backing up Trump's attorney general Bill Barr's claim that the election was not rigged.

"I respect the attorney general Barr. So I accepted what he said, he was saying," she said.