Defiant Ivanka Trump SLAPS DOWN critics who attacked her over White House role
IVANKA Trump has lashed out at critics who brandished her as “complicit” in her father’s controversial administration.
Ivanka hits out at critics attacking her over White House role
Donald Trump’s second child insisted she was not silent, even though she has refused to “publicly denounce” some of her father’s orders including the US-Mexico border wall.
The 35-year-old mother of three told CBS News: “I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence.
Ivanka Trump has said she is not silent, even though she does not criticise her father
“If being complicit... is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit."
Ms Trump, who has been married to Jared Kushner – President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law – for the last eight years, attempted to belittle her critics.
She claimed critics would behave exactly like her if they “found themselves in her very unique and unprecedented situation", being the President’s daughter and the wife of his senior aide.
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Ms Trump added: "I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing.
"So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be."
Ivanka Trump pictured on the West Wing with her Presidential father and influential husband
Ms Trump's comments appeared to be a response to the Saturday Night Live parody of her life in March.
Titled, “Complicit”, Scarlett Johansson plays Ms Trump in the spoof perfume advert for SNL, which states: "A feminist, an advocate, a champion for women, but.. like.. how..?"
The 35-year-old previously held executive roles at the Trump Organisation and ran her self-named lifestyle brand, which offers clothing and jewellery.