Ivanka Trump appeared to try to clean up her father’s and brother’s recent comments on sexual harassment by calling harassment “totally inexcusable” in a Tuesday interview.
Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that harassment of any kind is unacceptable and praised the Trump Organization for having a human resources program equipped to deal with it.
“I think sexual harassment is inexcusable in any setting,” she said. “I think harassment in general, regardless sexual or otherwise, is totally inexcusable. And if it transpires, it needs to be reported and it needs to be dealt with on a company level. We have a very strong HR team at the Trump organization who is equipped to deal with these issues if they arise and you hope they never arise. You hope you have a culture in which they don’t arise. But, when they do, it needs to be dealt with swiftly.”
Trump’s comments came after USA Today published a report that two employees at the Trump Organization claimed they’d been terminated in recent years after reporting sexual harassment at the company.
Van Susteren did not ask Trump specifically about her father’s comment that he hoped she’d switch careers if she experienced the kind of sexual harassment ex-Fox News boss Roger Ailes is accused of, nor her brother’s comment that she would never let herself be sexually harassed because she’s a “strong” woman.
