Ivanka Trump broke her silence Tuesday on the comments made by her father Donald Trump about women in 2005, saying that they were “clearly inappropriate and offensive.”
In a statement to Fast Company, which published a lengthy interview with her on Tuesday, Trump’s eldest daughter admitted wrongdoing by her father, adding that she is glad he “acknowledged” that what he said was wrong.
“My father’s comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive and I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people,” Ivanka Trump told the magazine.
During the interview itself, which was done prior to the leaked video’s emergence, Trump told the publication that she does not worry about her father during situations of this kind, saying that she knows her father better than anyone else.
“The greatest comfort I have is the fact that I know my father. Most of the people who write about him don’t. I do,” Trump said. “So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong.”
The comments come out a day after Melania Trump granted her first interview following the leaked video and subsequent sexual assault. The GOP nominee’s wife said that while the comments upset her, they were simply a byproduct of “boy talk.”
