Ivanka Trump introduction examination removed by DC principal legal officer
The probe is looking into the spending of the Trump inaugural committee.
Ivanka Trump introduction examination, the president’s eldest daughter and White House senior adviser, sat for a deposition with the Washington, D.C., Attorney General’s Office Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into the Trump 2017 Inaugural Committee.
The probe, which has been led by the D.C. attorney general has been looking into the spending of the Trump inaugural committee and specific spending at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The probe has looked at whether President Donald Trump has violated the emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from profiting from foreign governments.
Ivanka Trump’s deposition was disclosed in a filing by the D.C. attorney general, Karl Racine, that was posted Wednesday. She is among a list of others who have sat for a deposition with the attorney general, including Trump’s longtime friend and chair of his inauguration, Tom Barrack.
“Ms. Trump’s only involvement was connecting the parties and instructing the hotel to charge a “fair market rate”, which the hotel did,” Alan Garten an attorney for the Trump Organization told ABC News in a statement Wednesday evening. The Trump Organization owns the Washington, D.C., hotel.
According to the filings, the D.C. attorney general’s investigation began, in part, after claims were leveled by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a one-time adviser to Melania Trump, who worked on the inauguration events and who wrote a book, “Melania and Me,” about her relationship with the first lady earlier this year.
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