Ivanka breaks her silence on dad's lewd comments

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses his daughter Ivanka Trump after the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Oct. 9, 2016. (Photo: Rick T. Wilking, AP)
For the first time Ivanka Trump, who has been a major fixture in her father's efforts to reach out to women voters, publicly addressed the lewd comments Donald Trump made during a 2005 taping of Access Hollywood.

"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," the Republican nominee's eldest daughter said in a statement to Fast Company that was published Monday.
"I mean, it's been a year and a half of enormous scrutiny, of my family, every business, every movement, action," Ivanka Trump says in an interview with Fast Company. "I've probably grown a bit tougher in terms of my resilience toward what is thrown our way because, you know, I've read some very negative stuff."
When asked what it is like to read allegations of sexual misconduct or assault by her father, Ivanka Trump said, "The greatest comfort I have …