Washington (CNN) Ivanka Trump, the daughter and senior adviser of President Donald Trump, invoked the words of a founding father on Thursday to defend her own father from his political enemies, moments after the House of Representatives voted to formalize its impeachment inquiry.

" '... surrounded by enemies and spies catching and perverting every word (which) falls from my lips or flows from my pen, and inventing where facts fail them.' -Thomas Jefferson's reflections on Washington, D.C. in a letter to his daughter Martha. Some things never change, dad!" she tweeted Thursday.

The President also tweeted, shortly after the vote: "Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!"

On Thursday, 232 members of the House, which includes a former Republican who left the party earlier this year, voted in favor to formalize the inquiry and 196 members, including two Democrats, voted against the formalization.

Though Ivanka Trump may have attempted to show historic parallels between the founding father and the current day President, the truth is more complicated.

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