After her father barrel rolled into the 2016 GOP primary race by condemning undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists” bringing drugs and crime into the country, Ivanka Trump wrote a “clarification” to the remarks that went unused.
As part of a deposition given in an ongoing lawsuit with celebrity chef José Andrés, which stems from Andrés pulling out of a business deal over the GOP nominee’s anti-immigrant remarks, Trump said she drafted remarks in an attempt to right the ship.
“I had suggested a clarification because I felt that his comments were being misconstrued,” she said, according to reporting from BuzzFeed News. “Not a retraction. I don’t think that’s my place.”
The New York businessman’s remarks that Mexican immigrants were “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists” in his June 2015 campaign launch were “mischaracterized as being a categorical attack on Hispanics,” Trump reportedly said in the deposition.
Asked if she had written a statement about the remarks, Trump said she “drafted something for myself” but noted “it was not used.”
In his own deposition for the case, Donald Trump said he did not recall any conversation with his eldest daughter about reeling the comments back.
