As a senior White House advisor, Ivanka Trump has made fighting forced human labor and sex trafficking one of her signature initiatives.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post in November, President Trump’s daughter called human trafficking, whose victims reportedly number 25 million children and adults worldwide, an “evil.”

Ivanka Trump also wrote that all governments have “a moral obligation” to stop these “heinous crimes.” She touted the “strong action” taken by President Trump to combat human trafficking and explained how he was bringing “the full force” of the U.S. government to this issue. She said her father did so by signing an executive order directing federal law enforcement “to prioritize dismantling the criminal organizations behind forced labor, sex trafficking and involuntary servitude.”

Fast forward to Friday when Ivanka Trump’s claims that the Trump administration cares about human trafficking faced scrutiny....