The Jan. 6 committee criticized Ivanka Trump on Monday for showing a “lack of full recall on certain issues” and “non-accommodatingness” in her testimony before the panel about her father’s actions on the day of the riot.
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter who served as an adviser at his White House, testified before the panel for at least eight hours behind closed doors. Portions of her videotaped testimony were shown during official hearings as the committee attempted to show the former president attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election results.
But despite the use of Ivanka’s testimony in his televised hearings, the 161-page summary released by the committee on Monday barely cites the former first daughter. A final, more comprehensive report is expected to be released on Wednesday.
Instead, the panel censured Ivanka Trump — along with Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows — for “lacking full recall on specific issues or otherwise not being as open or direct” as other senior Trump advisers, such as former White House Attorney Pat Cipollone.
“Ivanka Trump has not been as accommodating as Cipollone and others regarding President Trump’s conduct,” the committee writes in its finding.
The Jan. 6 committee criticized Ivanka Trump for showing “a lack of complete recall on certain subjects” and for not being “accommodating” in her testimony
The panel commended Ivanka Trump for acknowledging that she agreed with Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr that there was no evidence of voter fraud.
“I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he said — what he said,” she said in her videotaped testimony of the 2020 election results, played at the panel’s hearing in June.
Donald Trump reacted with anger to her statement, saying Ivanka was “not involved” in looking at the results of the presidential contest.
“Ivanka Trump was not involved in viewing or investigating the election results. She had long since opted out and I think was just trying to be respectful of Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked),” Trump wrote on Truth Social about 12 hours after that part of her statement was revealed.
Despite the eight-hour testimony, Monday’s House Committee Report called out Ivanka Trump for not being as open as other staffers about President Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.
The former first daughter attended his rally on the Ellipse in front of the White House this morning, at which Trump railed against his Vice President Mike Pence and continued his false claim that voter fraud denied him a win.
Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) open the final public session of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the April 6 attack. January on the US Capitol
The report notes that Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff, Julie Radford, “had a more specific recollection of Ivanka Trump’s actions and statements” than Ivank did when it came to the former president’s conduct on the day his MAGA supporters flooded the Capitol.
Radford told the committee in her testimony that Ivanka Trump told her how her father called Pence on the morning of Jan. 6 and asked him to send the election results back to the states.
Pence, as Vice President, had the ceremonial role of overseeing the certification of Electoral College results in Congress. He didn’t have the legal authority to do what President Trump wanted.
Radford said Ivanka told her her father called Pence “the ‘P’ word.”
But when the committee asked Ivanka Trump if it'[a]If you remember certain words your father used during that morning’s conversation with Vice President Pence, she simply replied, “No.”
At its June hearing, the committee showed a video clip of Ivanka Trump’s testimony on the call.
“The conversation was pretty heated,” Ivanka Trump said. “It was a different tone than I’ve heard before from the vice president.”
The committee attempted to demonstrate that Donald Trump was pressuring Pence to try to illegally upset the election.
As thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Ivanka Trump was one of the White House staffers who went to the Oval Office several times on January 6 and asked her father to tell his supporters to leave the building.
She now resides in Miami with husband Jared Kushner and their three children. She is not involved in Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
In summing up its year-long investigation, the panel noted that “in a number of circumstances, the committee found that lower-level White House officials had significantly better recall of events than allegedly senior officials.”
The panel also recommended that the Justice Department indict Donald Trump for rioting; obstruction of an official procedure; and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
The panel also accused attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro of involvement in the conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election.
And it recommended that Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers — who did not respond to the committee’s subpoenas — be referred to the House Ethics Committee for their conduct.
Ivanka Trump with her father President Donald Trump in a tent during his Stop the Steal Rally on January 6, 2021 on the Ellipse in front of the White House
The Jan. 6 panel slammed former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany (left) for being “evasive” in her testimony, “as if testifying from ready-made talking points”; The committee also accused Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows (right) of “a series of deliberate falsehoods” in his memoir about his time in the White House
The Jan. 6 committee commended officials such as White House Attorney Pat Cipollone for providing a “particularly important account of the events of Jan. 6, as did White House Attorney Eric Herschmann.”
Monday’s report also called other senior Trump officials to testify.
It chided Kayleigh McEnany for being “evasive” in her testimony, “as if she were testifying from ready-made talking points.”
The committee also called Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about “a series of deliberate falsehoods” in his memoir about his time in the White House, titled The Chief’s Chief.
It notes Meadows’ false claim that Trump spoke “metaphorically” about going to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The panel commended officials such as White House Attorney Pat Cipollone for providing a “particularly important account of the events of January 6, as did White House Attorney Eric Herschmann.”
Both men testified, as they advised Trump, that he had lost the election and there was no legal way for him or Pence to change the results.
The Jan. 6 committee, set up by Democrats to investigate the origins of the insurgency that disrupted confirmation of the 2020 presidential election, is completing its work before Congress adjourns.
Officials collected more than 140,000 documents over the 17 months of the investigation and conducted more than 1,000 interviews with Trump aides, rioters and officials they claim were directly or indirectly involved in the riots.
The last hearing on Monday was the 10th