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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Ivanka Trump claimed to believe Trump's false voter-fraud theories but later told Jan. 6 panel she didn't, report says - Yahoo! Voices

  • The New York Times obtained footage of a previously-unseen Ivanka Trump interview from Dec. 2020.

  • In it, she said Trump should "continue to fight" the 2020 election results.

  • Her comments seem to directly contradict what she told the Jan. 6 committee earlier this year.

Ivanka Trump claimed to believe former President Donald Trump's false voter-fraud theories in a December 2020 interview, directly contradicting her testimony to congressional investigators earlier this year, a new report says.

In April 2022, Trump had told the House committee investigating the Capitol riot that she had "accepted" former Attorney General Bill Barr's assessment that Donald Trump's claims of election fraud were wrong.

When asked if Barr's statement on the subject affected her own perspective, she said it had, adding: "I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying." The pre-recorded testimony was played in the panel's first public hearing earlier this month.

But according to The New York Times, Ivanka Trump told the documentary filmmaker Alex Holder on December 10, 2020 — nine days after Barr made the assessment that supposedly swayed her — that she supported her father's efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.

"I think that, as the president has said, every single vote needs to be counted and needs to be heard, and he campaigned for the voiceless," Ivanka Trump said after being asked for her take on Trump's efforts, according to The Times.

"And I think a lot of...



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