Ivanka Trump said the Ukraine whistleblower's identity isn't 'relevant,' setting her against her brother Donald Jr. who is obsessed with naming them

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• Ivanka Trump in an interview with the Associated Press claimed that the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint about her father, President Donald Trump, sparked an impeachment probe is "not particularly relevant." 
• Her position differs from that of her father, who has called for the whistleblower to be named, and her brother, Donald Trump Jr.
• Earlier this week, Trump Jr tweeted the name of an official who far-right activists and conservative websites have alleged is the whistleblower.
• Business Insider has not been able to verify the alleged identity, and is not repeating it in this article.
• The whistleblower who raised alarm about President Trump's behavior towards Ukraine is granted anonymity under federal law. 
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Ivanka Trump has taken a different position to her father President Donald Trump and brother Donald Trump Jr over publicly naming an official whose whistleblower complaint about the president sparked an impeachment probe. 

In an interview with the Associated Press published Thursday, Ivanka, who serves as an unpaid adviser in her father's administration, remarked that the identity of the official is "not particularly relevant."

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