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Ivanka Trump: Whistleblower's Motives More Important Than ID

   RABAT, MOROCCO - Ivanka Trump on Friday echoed her father's view that
   the House impeachment investigation is an attempt to overturn the 2016
   election. But, in an interview with The Associated Press, she parted
   ways with President Donald Trump by calling the identity of the
   impeachment whistleblower ``not particularly relevant.''
   The Republican president and some of his allies lately have been
   pressing the news media to publicize the whistleblower's name. Trump
   has also tweeted for the individual to ``come forward.'' But Ivanka
   Trump said the person's motives were more important, though she
   declined to speculate on what they may have been.

   Lack of 'firsthand information'
   ``The whistleblower shouldn't be a substantive part of the
   conversation,'' she told the AP, saying the person ``did not have
   firsthand information.''
   Of the individual's identity, she added that ``to me, it's not
   particularly relevant aside from what the motivation behind all of this
   was.''
   In a wide-ranging, 25-minute interview, Ivanka Trump also addressed her
   family's criticism of Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, whether
   she wants four more years in the White House and the possible future
   sale of her family's landmark Washington hotel.

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