--- title: Ivanka Trump: 'Zero Concern' About Mueller Investigation description: Ivanka Trump says she has "zero concern" about the Mueller probe and knew "very little" about a potential real estate deal in Moscow. canonical: https://time.com/5525012/ivanka-trump-mueller-investigation/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-08T13:34:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:22:10.169Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ivanka Trump Says She Has 'Zero Concern' About Mueller Investigation og:description: Ivanka Trump says she has "zero concern" about the Mueller probe and knew "very little" about a potential real estate deal in Moscow. og:url: https://time.com/5525012/ivanka-trump-mueller-investigation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50278bf1881455d8/698944ce86f68e01116eb522/ivanka-trump-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3925 og:image:height: 2208 og:image:alt: Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to the US President seen during og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump Says She Has 'Zero Concern' About Mueller Investigation twitter:description: Ivanka Trump says she has "zero concern" about the Mueller probe and knew "very little" about a potential real estate deal in Moscow. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50278bf1881455d8/698944ce86f68e01116eb522/ivanka-trump-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump Says She Has 'Zero Concern' About the Mueller Investigation > Sponsored content. 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As special counsel Robert Mueller and various news reports have dug up information about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Trump has followed a predictable pattern._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 8, 2019 1:34 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 8, 2019 1:34 PM UTC Ivanka Trump said she has “zero concerns” about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and said she knew “very little” about a real estate project in Moscow pursued by the Trump Organization during the 2016 presidential election. “No, I’m not. I’m really not,” Trump said in an interview with [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trump-concern-special-counsel-robert-muellers-investigation/story?id=60926680) when asked if she was at all concerned that any of her loved ones would be implicated as Mueller looks into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign in 2016. President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter, who serves as a White House adviser, also denied knowing anything of significance about the Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. She said she “barely” knew about the potential plans. > [](https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1093838415408349190) “Literally almost nothing,” Trump said. “There was never a binding contract. I never talked with a third party outside of the organization about it. I mean we could have had 40 or 50 deals like that, that were floating around, that somebody was looking at. Nobody visited it to see if it was worth our time. So this was not exactly like an advanced project.” Trump also sought to downplay any meaning behind the Trump Organization pursuing such a project during the 2016 presidential campaign. Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer and fixer to President Donald Trump, [pleaded guilty in November](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/nyregion/michael-cohen-trump-russia-mueller.html) about lying to Congress regarding the proposed real estate deal in Russia and the extent of Donald Trump’s involvement with the project. Ivanka Trump said there was nothing “strange” about a real estate development company having property in Russia. “We’re not talking about Iran. It was Russia,” she said. “And we weren’t even advanced enough that anyone had visited the prospective project site. So it was really just a non-factor in our minds. I’m not sure that anyone would have thought of it.” The President has [denied having business dealings in Russia](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/fact-check-cohen-trump-.html), telling a reporter in February 2017, “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.” ## Transcript Donald Trump has changed his story several times during the Russia investigation. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller and various news reports have dug up information about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Trump has followed a predictable pattern. Here's how it works. Trump begins by broadly denying that something happened. First, he denied that Russians had hacked Democratic emails. But I notice any time anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians. She doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking, maybe there is no hacking. The campaign also denied that it had any contacts with Russia. I joined this campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that All the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. [ MUSIC ] And Trump denied that he had any business connections with Russia in July of 2016. Just weeks after his former lawyer Michael Cohen stopped working on a project to bring a Trump Tower to Moscow. So I mean I have nothing to do with Russia. I don't have any jobs in Russia. I'm all over the world, but we're not involved in Russia. As facts emerge which make the denial harder to maintain, Trump downplays their significance. He did that when he admitted Democratic emails had been hacked but cast doubt on who did it. I think it was Russia but I think it was probably other people and / or countries and I see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure He did it when he admitted that his campaign chair, son, and son- in- law had met with a Kremlin- connected lawyer in Trump Tower during the election. He took a meeting with a lawyer from Russia. It lasted for a very short period and nothing came of the meeting. And he did it when he argued that the Trump Tower Moscow project was not a big deal. Everybody knew about it. It was written about in newspapers It was a well known project, and so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. I mean, we were very open with it. We were thinking about building a building. This deal was a very public deal. Everybody knows about this deal. I wasn't trying to hide anything. [ MUSIC ] Finally, Trump makes an Mission, but argues that it's not that important. He did that when he argued that Russian medling had no influence on the election. Well, Russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election. Let me be totally clear in saying that, and I've said this so many times, I accept our intelligence Mention communities conclusion. That Russia's meddling in the the 2016 election took place. He did it when he argued that meetings with foreign nationals promising dirt on a political opponent are routine. So I think from a pratical standpoint Most people would have taken that meaning. It's called opposition research or even research into your opponent. I've had many people, I have only been in politics for two years, but I've had many people call up, OG, we have information on this factor or this person or, frankly, Hillary That's very standard in politics. And he did it when he argued there would ne nothing wrong wit perusing a business deal with a foreign government while running for president. We decided, I decided ultimately not to do it. There would have been nothing wrong if I did do it. If I did do it, there would've been nothing wrong. That was my business. Even if he was right, it doesn't matter. Because I was allowed To do whatever I wanted during the campaign. I was running my business. A lot of different things during the campaign. One problem for Trump with this pattern, it undercuts other denials he's made. And it raises the question, if there was nothing wrong with it, why deny it in the first place? 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