Lara Trump called the media’s treatment of her sister-in-law Ivanka Trump “shocking,” “ridiculous” and “sad” when compared to the media’s fawning over former first daughter Chelsea Clinton this week.

Lara Trump, wife of President Trump’s second son Eric Trump, joined Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo Thursday morning when Ms. Bartiromo played a clip of Ivanka Trump refusing to answer NBC’s Peter Alexander’s question about whether she believes the women who have accused her father of sexual misconduct.

“I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father, when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it,” Ivanka Trump, who serves as a senior adviser to her father, told Mr. Alexander. “I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters.”

Ms. Bartiromo then played a clip of a “Good Morning America” appearance this week by Chelsea Clinton, whose father, former President Bill Clinton, faced his own accusations of sexual misconduct while in office.

“Your mother — a great advocate for women and girls — you have been the same way, Chelsea — in seeing this #MeToo movement and Time’s Up, what has this past year meant to you?” host Robin Roberts gushed.

Lara Trump decried the media’s double standard when it comes to conservative women.

“If it wasn’t for a double standard, the media would have no standard at all in this country,” she told Ms. Bartiromo. “It’s shocking, it’s ridiculous, it’s sad. I could give you a million words to describe this, but it’s not surprising, because the people who are in charge of the mainstream media in this country are out to get the president, our entire family at every turn.”

“I give [Ivanka Trump] a lot of credit for going on NBC, quite frankly, because they haven’t been very kind to the president. And I thought this was incredibly inappropriate to ask Ivanka, and she handled it with such class and such grace,” she said.

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