After keeping mum on the controversy a week and a half, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, 34, finally addressed her father’s shocking hot-mic comments on Monday. Her statement, issued to Fast Company, was, well, brief: “My father’s comments were clearly inappropriate and offensive, and I’m glad that he acknowledged this fact with an immediate apology to my family and the American people.”

Terse as her statement was, Ivanka went a step further than her brother Eric Trump, another campaign surrogate, by condemning her father’s comments as “offensive.” While saying he didn’t think the comments were “right,” Eric wrote off his father’s boasts as “locker room talk.” “That’s what happens when alpha personalities are in the same presence,” he explained.

In an interview with Fast Company ― her statement on the audio came separately ― Ivanka said she has learned how to “shrug off” the unflattering coverage of her father, including allegations of sexual assault.

“The greatest comfort I have is the fact that I know my father. Most of the people who write about him don’t. I do,” she explained. “So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong.”

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