Ivanka Trump tells her critics they’d do the same thing if they found themselves in her “unprecedented situation”

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Ivanka Trump, who recently accepted an official position on her father’s staff, said in her first interview since her father’s inauguration that she doesn’t know “what it means to be complicit.”

Her answer came in response to a question by interviewer Gayle King of “CBS This Morning,” who told Ivanka that critics say she and her husband, Jared Kushner are complicit in what is happening in the White House.

“If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I’m complicit,’ Ivanka told King in an interview that aired in full Wednesday morning.

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Asked how she feels about the accusation, Ivanka responded: “I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing.”

She then added: “So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”

The interview was filmed at Ivanka’s $5.5 million rental home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC while her husband was off in Iraq on an official trip. Since joining her father’s staff as special assistant to the President, Ivanka has increased her public appearances. She originally told “60 Minutes” that she planned to be a daughter, and not have a role in the White House.

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“I realized that having one foot in and one foot out wouldn’t work,” she told King. “And the reality is that it all happened very organically for me.”

Interestingly, Ivanka and her husband have held differing beliefs than the president on issues such as climate change and LGBT rights. However, in the interview, Ivanka declined to name a single issue in which she disagrees with her father.

“For me, this isn’t about promoting my viewpoints. I wasn’t elected by the American people to be president. My father is going to do a tremendous job. And I want to help him do that,” Ivanka said.

She was asked how she would answer critics who hold her accountable for not speaking out against her father’s positions.

“I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence,” Ivanka said. “I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard. In some cases, it’s through protest and it’s through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue on which you disagree with.”

“Other times,” she said, “it is quietly and directly and candidly. So where I disagree with my father, he knows it. And I express myself with total candor. Where I agree, I fully lean in and support the agenda and hope that I can be an asset to him and make a positive impact.”

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