Never-before-seen videos of the insurrection in chronological order 11:44
(CNN) --
One day after the January 6 House committee released unreleased video of former President Donald Trump's daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, saying she accepted then-Attorney General Bill Barr that the Department of Justice did not find enough fraud to annul the elections, the former president responds by saying that "he disengaged himself a long time ago."
"Ivanka Trump was not involved in examining or studying the election results. She has long since disengaged and in my opinion was just trying to be respectful of Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (sucks!)" Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Ivanka Trump testified that she accepted the Justice Department's determination that there was not enough fraud to nullify the election.
Although Trump tries to downplay his daughter's role in his administration when the riots broke out on January 6, 2021, Ivanka Trump did accompany her father to the rally on the White House Ellipse that preceded the attack on the US Capitol.
In the clip of her statement aired Thursday night, Ivanka Trump was asked for her reaction when Barr said there was no widespread voter fraud.
"It affected my perspective," Ivanka Trump said.
"I respect Secretary Barr, so I accepted what he said."
Ivanka Trump met with the commission virtually in April for nearly eight hours, and CNN previously reported that she corroborated critical testimony from other witnesses who said the then-president was reluctant to try to call off the riots despite being asked. To do it.
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"They were a little supportive of the fact that the president was told that he had to do something to stop the insurrection on January 6. That he had to go public with it; he had to be direct," committee chairman Bennie Thompson said. , to CNN about the commission's interviews with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.
"So in that sense ... we've been able to systematically, with depositions and interviews with other witnesses, we've been able to fill in a lot of the gaps," Thompson said.
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The commission also pointed to Barr's closed-door statement calling Trump's claims "s***."
Barr, who resigned in December 2020, said part of the reason he left the Trump administration was because of Trump's false claims about fraud (although he did not publicly cite that reason at the time).
"I made it clear that I did not agree with the idea of saying that the election had been stolen and putting these things out, that I told the president that they were sh*t," Barr said in the video reproduced by the commission this Thursday.
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