伊万卡·特朗普作为总统的长女和白宫高级顾问，周二在华盛顿总检察长办公室出庭作证正在进行的调查的一部分特朗普2017年就职委员会。

由华盛顿特区司法部长领导的调查一直在调查特朗普就职委员会的支出和华盛顿特区特朗普国际酒店的具体支出。调查着眼于总统是否唐纳德·特朗普违反了禁止总统从外国政府获利的薪酬条款。

伊万卡·特朗普的证词是在华盛顿司法部长卡尔·拉辛周三发布的一份文件中披露的。她是其他参加司法部长作证的人之一，包括特朗普的老朋友和他的就职典礼主席汤姆·巴拉克。

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2020年11月2日，伊万卡·特朗普在一次竞选活动上发表讲话，而她的父亲唐纳德·特朗普总统

特朗普组织的律师艾伦·加滕(Alan Garten)在周三晚上的一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)，特朗普的唯一参与是联系各方，并指示酒店收取“公平的市场价格”，酒店确实这样做了。特朗普组织拥有华盛顿特区酒店。

根据这些文件，华盛顿总检察长的调查部分是在斯蒂芬妮·温斯顿·沃科夫(Stephanie Winston Wolkoff)提出指控后开始的。斯蒂芬妮·沃科夫曾是梅兰妮·特朗普的顾问，参与了就职典礼，并写了一本书《梅拉尼娅和我》(Melania and Me)，讲述了她今年早些时候与第一夫人的关系。

“我和三个不同的检察官一起工作，它接管了我的生活，”温斯顿-沃尔科夫说美国广播公司新闻九月采访指的是纽约南区的美国检察官办公室以及新泽西州和华盛顿特区的地方总检察长

就职委员会是一个私人免税组织，筹集了近1.07亿美元的捐款，并在活动中花费了1.04亿美元，这是有史以来就职人数最多的一次，是巴拉克·奥巴马总统第一次就职人数的两倍。据报道，这笔总额约为300万美元的未支出款项被捐给了慈善机构。

温斯顿·沃尔科夫(Winston Wolkoff)回忆说，就职一年多后，《纽约时报》报道称，特朗普的就职委员会向她的活动策划公司支付了2600多万美元，这让她措手不及，引发了世界各地的头条新闻，暗示她个人侵吞了全部或大部分资金。

她在书中写道，这些不公平的说法让她成了“就职恶作剧的封面女郎”。

温斯顿·沃尔科夫拒绝向美国广播公司新闻提供包括文件在内的材料，以支持她在书中或采访中概述的任何说法。

特朗普的就职委员会在9月份的一份声明中对美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)表示，它“不同意(她)对这一历史事件的描述”，并补充说，它“将拒绝参与她卖书的努力”，但没有回应温斯顿·沃尔科夫(Winston Wolkoff)的具体指控。白宫发言人同样指责温斯顿·沃尔科夫试图“从旨在伤害第一家庭的谎言和错误描述中获利。”

一名接近特朗普组织的消息人士表示，他们“期待接受温斯顿·沃尔科夫的证词”，以回应华盛顿的调查。温斯顿-沃尔科夫没有回应美国广播公司周三晚间的置评请求。

华盛顿特区的调查不是联邦政府的调查，而是由当地司法部长办公室领导的总统赦免不包括在内如果有任何指控。美国有线电视新闻网首次报道了伊万卡·特朗普的证词。

Ivanka Trump deposed by DC attorney general in inauguration investigation

Ivanka Trump, the president's eldest daughter and White House senior adviser, sat for a deposition with the Washington, D.C., Attorney General's Office Tuesday aspart of an ongoing investigationinto the Trump 2017 Inaugural Committee.

The probe, which has been led by the D.C. attorney general has been looking into the spending of the Trump inaugural committee and specific spending at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The probe has looked at whether PresidentDonald Trumphas violated the emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from profiting from foreign governments.

Ivanka Trump's deposition was disclosed in a filing by the D.C. attorney general Karl Racine, that was posted Wednesday. She is among a list of others who have sat for a deposition with the attorney general, including Trump's longtime friend and chair of his inauguration, Tom Barrack.

"Ms. Trump’s only involvement was connecting the parties and instructing the hotel to charge a “fair market rate”, which the hotel did," Alan Garten an attorney for the Trump Organization told ABC News in a statement Wednesday evening. The Trump Organization owns the Washington, D.C., hotel.

According to the filings, the D.C. Attorney General's investigation began in part after claims were leveled by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a one-time adviser to Melania Trump, who worked on the inauguration events and who wrote a book, "Melania and Me," about her relationship with the first lady earlier this year.

"I'm working with three different prosecutors, and it's taken over my life," Winston-Wolkoff toldABC News in a September interview, referring to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York and local attorneys general in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.

The inaugural committee, a private tax-exempt organization, raised nearly $107 million in donations and spent $104 million of that on the event, the most ever for an inauguration -- twice as much as President Barack Obama's first. The money not spent -- totaling about $3 million -- was reportedly donated to charity.

As Winston Wolkoff recalled, she was blindsided when, more than a year after the inauguration, The New York Times reported that Trump's inaugural committee had paid her event-planning firm more than $26 million, sparking headlines around the world suggesting she had personally pocketed all or much of that money.

Those unfair claims made her into "the cover girl for the inauguration shenanigans," she wrote in her book.

Winston-Wolkoff declined to provide ABC News with materials, including documents, to support any of the claims outlined in her book or interview.

Without responding to Winston Wolkoff's specific allegations, Trump's inaugural committee told ABC News in a statement in September that it "disagrees with (her) description of this historic event," adding that it "will decline to engage in her effort to sell books." A White House spokesman similarly accused Winston Wolkoff of trying to "profit off lies and mischaracterizations meant to harm the First Family."

A source close to the Trump Organization says they "look forward to taking Winston-Wolkoff's deposition" in response to the D.C. inquiry. Winston-Wolkoff did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News Wednesday evening.

The D.C. investigation is not a federal probe but rather led by the local attorney general's office and wouldnot be covered by a presidential pardon, should any charges be brought. News of Ivanka Trump's deposition was first reported by CNN.