Ivanka Trump, who works in the White House as a top aide to her father, insisted that recent revelations about work on a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 election are overblown. | Win McNamee/Getty Images White House Ivanka Trump: I have 'zero concerns' about Mueller probe

White House adviser and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump said in an interview broadcast Friday that she has "zero concerns" that the Russia investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller could sweep up those closest to her.

In an interview that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Trump, who works in the White House as a top aide to her father, also insisted that recent revelations about work on a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 election were overblown.


“No. I'm not, I'm really not,” Trump said when asked if she was worried about anyone in her life getting wrapped up in the probe. “You mentioned the Moscow example, that's a perfect example, there's nothing there. Yet it's created weeks and weeks and months of headlines. So no, I have zero concerns.”

The status and seriousness of a prospective Trump Tower deal in Moscow have come under scrutiny in recent months with the disclosure by former Trump fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about when those talks ended.

Trump, who claimed during the 2016 presidential campaign to have no business with Russia, reportedly told Mueller in a written answer to his questions that the discussions could have continued through the election, according to his lawyer. But he’s played down the seriousness of the deal, as his daughter did Friday.

Ivanka Trump said she knew “literally almost nothing” about the proposal, and argued that it wouldn’t be unusual for a hotel chain to have projects in Russia.

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“We're not talking about Iran. It was Russia. And we weren't even advanced enough that anyone had even visited the prospective project site. So it really was just a nonfactor in our minds,” she said.

Cohen did agree to travel to Moscow in relation to the project, even trying to organize a trip by Donald Trump to do the same, according to court documents.

Mueller’s examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether Trump or his team colluded in those efforts has netted charges against some of Trump’s closest associates, including his former campaign chairman, personal attorney, national security adviser and longtime political adviser.

The special counsel has also reportedly interviewed Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, as part of the investigation as well as countless others in the Trump orbit.

Though there have been signs that Mueller’s inquiry could be winding down after 20 months, he’s not working on any definitive timeline and his team has been silent on that front.

Trump also addressed criticisms that she doesn’t speak out publicly when she disagrees with her father. Trump has been cast as a moderating force in the White House, though critics accuse her of not trying hard enough to steer her father away from policies they find harmful or that she’s indicated she feels differently about, such as the issue of climate change.

Last year, the president said it was Ivanka who showed him photos of migrant children separated from their parents at the border as a result of Trump’s so-called zero tolerance policy, which in part persuaded him to sign a directive ending the policy.

Ivanka Trump argued Friday that “my job as a member of this administration is not to share my viewpoint when they diverge,” but said her opinion had been solicited in the case of family separations.

She did shed some light on how she decides when to speak out publicly versus bringing things up to her father in private.

“I think that when you hear me start to speak publicly on an issue that's active, it's because my voice isn't being heard privately,” she said.