President Trump’s eldest daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump has “zero concern” about anyone in her family being affected by the Russia investigation.
“There’s nothing there,” Trump told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday morning. “Yet it’s created weeks and weeks and months of headlines.”
Trump said special counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t been able to find any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and she isn’t concerned about the investigation.
She also said that she “barely” knew anything about the Trump Organization’s prospective deal with Moscow for a tower in Russia, and said they were an “active business” engaging in many possible ventures.
“There was never a binding contract,” Trump said, downplaying the project exploration that went on during Trump’s presidential campaign. “I never talked with a third party outside of the organization about it.”
Trump said that it’s common for hospitality or development companies to have a property in Russia.
“We’re not talking about Iran. It was Russia,” Trump said. “And we weren’t even advanced enough that anyone had even visited the prospective project site. So it really was just a non-factor in our minds.”
Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election is reportedly winding down.
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