Whereas Thursday wasn't an amazing day for Donald Trump's supporters, these on the alternative finish of the political spectrum rejoiced on the bombshell testimony of Ivanka Trump on the Jan. 6 listening to, as she appeared to show her again on her father.

Within the first listening to of the trial investigating the lethal riots that noticed Trump supporters attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Ivanka Trump, one in every of his most trusted supporters and advisers, appeared in a beforehand unseen video clip saying that she did not imagine the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Following a video clip of Lawyer Common William Barr testifying that he instructed Trump on the time that the claims the election had been stolen have been "full nonsense," "loopy stuff" and "bulls***," as his group had not discovered proof of voter fraud, Ivanka Trump mentioned she accepted what Barr mentioned.

"It affected my perspective [about the election] - I respect Lawyer Common Barr so I accepted what he mentioned," she mentioned to the committee, who laid the blame for the assaults on the Capitol firmly on her father, calling the assault an "tried coup."

Her phrases are in stark distinction with the false claims Trump nonetheless stands by, alleging that he did not lose the 2020 election. Her testimony may additionally present that Trump's closest aides have been advising him in opposition to claiming the election had been rigged.

Hashtag 'Daddy'

In a weird second in political commentary on the web's public sq., the hashtag "Daddy" began trending on Twitter's politics part after the listening to, along with the extra tame ​​#January6thCommitteeHearings, #Ivanka, and #Traitor (largely in reference to Trump himself).

"IVANKA TRUMP SINKS DADDY says she accepted Barr's evaluation that the fraud declare was nonsense. Goodness," commented American sports activities commentator Keith Olbermann on Twitter.

"If something will penetrate the GOP disinformation bubble, I might suppose it will be statements from Ivanka, Pence, and Invoice Barr," wrote writer and lawyer Teri Kanefield on Twitter, in reward of the Jan. 6 listening to's bombshell testimonies.

"I imply, they don't seem to be precisely radical Democrats and even "by no means Trump Republicans."

Others have been extra ironic of their commentary of the testimony.

"I will wager you ten bucks Ivanka was simply lower out of Trump's will," ​​wrote former Nationwide Finance Chair of Draft Biden 2016 Jon Cooper on Twitter.

"Trump's not gonna like that ivanka clip," wrote journalist Molly Jong-Quick.

"#IvankaTrump: 'I accepted what [then AG-Bill Barr] was saying.' That's, that there was no election fraud. She is actually calling her father a liar or a delusional con man. Perhaps each," wrote journalist David Corn.

Actor John Cusack wrote: "Ivanka trump - testified invoice Barr instructed the reality - no election interference - mentioned she believed Barr - pushed daddy below bus."

Activist Amy Siskind raised the query of whether or not Ivanka Trump is distancing herself from her father as a tactical transfer suggesting she's looking for her personal path in American politics.

"Questioning if Ivanka has Presidential ambitions the best way she is positioning herself with the Jan 6 committee and leaking her story to a NYT reporter as a so-called supply in his e book," she wrote.

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Ivanka Trump, daughter of former US President Donald Trump and a senior adviser, seems onscreen throughout a Home Choose Committee listening to to Examine the January 6 Assault on the U.S. Capitol, within the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 9, 2022. Critics mentioned that Ivanka Trump "threw her daddy below the bus." MANDEL NGAN/AFP through Getty Pictures