Ivanka Trump Behind Syria Airstrikes? Trump's Daughter Has Influence Over President, Eric Trump Says

President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump played a major role in his decision to launch an airstrike on a Syrian air base last week, in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Eric Trump said in an interview published Monday.

After the Syrian president’s regime allegedly launched a chemical attack on the country’s Idlib province, which resulted in mass casualties, Trump ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles, aimed at Syria’s Shayrat Air Base.

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“Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence. I’m sure she said: ‘Listen, this is horrible stuff,’” Donald Trump’s son told the Telegraph. “My father will act in times like that.”

Eric Trump has stayed out of politics even as his father took office as president and spends his time running the Trump business affairs. However, he said his father was “deeply affected by those images of the children,” referring to images from the chemical weapons struck area.

“And by the way, he was anti doing anything with Syria two years ago,” Eric Trump said about his father. “Then a leader gasses their own people, women and children. At some point America is the global leader and the world’s superpower has to come forward and act and they did with a lot of support of our allies and I think that’s a great thing.”

Ivanka Trump, who recently took up a position in the Trump administration as an assistant to the president, praised her father’s decision to take military actions against Syria last week. Her husband and special adviser to the president, Jared Kushner, was also reportedly to be in favor of the airstrikes.

In a tweet last week, Ivanka Trump wrote, “The times we are living in call for difficult decisions - Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity.”

However, she has faced criticism from many who believe that her statement is an example of hypocrisy as her father is the same person who is pushing for a ban on Syrian refugees from entering the United States.