Trump ‘reduced Ivanka to tears’

WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump ( pix) was reportedly reduced to tears by her father after he refused to issue a full apology for his comments about groping.

Donald Trump’s election campaign took one of its most severe knocks when a leaked audio recording of him bragging about how he could grab women because he was famous.

The first daughter has spent many years building up a feminist profile and has pledged to use her considerable influence to work for gender equality while her father is in office.

But according to the New York Times, Ivanka repeatedly attempted to convince him to offer a full apology for the comment, but he would only agreed to say sorry for any offence he caused.

Citing several people who were present at the crisis discussion, the paper said her “eyes welled with tears, her face reddened, and she hurried out in frustration”.

Trump released a video apology for the incident, which took place in 2005.

Ivanka has just released a new book which discusses her role in the election campaign.

In it, she says she was too busy for massages or mediation while on the road.

“I went into survival mode. I wasn’t treating myself to a massage or making much time for self-care,” Ivanka wrote. – The Independent