Ivanka Trump is in discussions with the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 uprising to speak to them, her office confirmed to DailyMail.com.
“Ivanka Trump is discussing with the commission to volunteer for an interview,” said a spokeswoman for Ivanka Trump.
The panel asked Ivanka Trump to volunteer last month to talk to them about what she saw that day. Trump, daughter of the former president Donald Trumphe was with his father at a rally, where he addressed his supporters before marching Capitol and then he was in the White House that day when events unfolded.
She has not yet agreed on a date on which she can speak to the committee and the committee has not threatened an impending summons, New York Times reported, citing sources from the commission.
Ivanka Trump serves as an adviser to her father Donald Trump during his the White House mandate. She, her husband Jared Kushner and their three children moved to Miami after the end of the Trump administration. She stayed out of politics, choosing not to challenge Republican Senator Marco Rubio and rarely posting on her social media accounts.
Former President Donald Trump has not asked his daughter to oppose the commission’s demands, as he did with his other top aides.
Ivanka Trump is unlikely to take steps that her father does not approve of, as the two are extremely close.
The former president has commissioned other aides, including Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff; Dan Scavino Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff; and Stephen K. Bannon, counselor – not to mention investigators.
Meadows and Bannon are found in disrespect to the House. The Justice Department is investigating Bannon and has not yet decided whether to do the same for Meadows.
Donald Trump blew up the panel after asking to speak to Ivanka. The panel also asked to hear Eric Trump, the son of the former president who ran the business empire, and Kimberly Guilfoil, an adviser on Trump’s presidential campaign and the finances of his eldest son, Don Jr.
“This is a very unfair situation for my children,” the former president told the Washington Examiner in January.
Ivanka Trump is in talks with the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 uprising to talk to them
Ivanka Trump with her father Donald Trump at his rally in front of the White House on January 6
Ivanka Trump was at the White House on the day of the January 6 uprising
In January letter to Ivankathe House committee said it was seeking a voluntary interview on what it saw on Jan. 6, including Donald Trump’s actions that day and his state of mind as his supporters stormed the Capitol.
The 11-page letter offers new details for the committee that learned what happened in the White House on the day of the uprising.
Ivanka is the last member of the Trump family to be targeted by the group. The commission also searched diaries with phone calls and text messages between the son of former President Eric Trump and Kimberly Gilfoil, the girlfriend of Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
She was in the Oval Office on Jan. 6, where she reportedly encouraged him to ask his supporters to step down during their attack on the Capitol, where they tried to stop the college’s official certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
IN his letterthe U.S. House of Representatives Election Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Cites Ivanka’s presence in the Oval Office on the morning of Jan. 6 when then-President Trump called Vice President Mike Pence to pressure him. to try to hold on until the certification of the 2020 elections.
“The Electoral Committee wants to discuss the part of the conversation you watched between President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6.”
The commission noted that General Keith Kellogg, a retired general who serves as Pence’s national security adviser and was also in the Oval that day, told them after Trump’s call to Pence: “[Ivanka Trump] He turned to me and said, “Mike Pence is a good man.”
“Similarly, the elected committee would like to discuss any other conversations you may have witnessed or participated in about the president’s plan to obstruct or impede the counting of votes.”
The panel also noted: “The Commission has information that suggests that President Trump’s adviser in the White House may have concluded that the actions that President Trump ordered Vice President Pence to take would violate the Constitution or otherwise way illegal. “
– Did you discuss these issues with any of the members of the White House office?
They said they also wanted to talk to her about Donald Trump’s response to the uprising. They referred to a tweet sent by Donald Trump at 2:24 the same day, where he said that Pence “does not have the courage” to do what needs to be done.
“We are particularly interested in the discussions in the White House with the president before and after his tweet at 2:24 p.m. Evidence from the elected committee shows that White House staff members have repeatedly asked for your help to intervene in an attempt to persuade President Trump to deal with the continuing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill, the commission wrote to Ivanka.
“Evidence from the elected committee shows that White House staff members have repeatedly asked for your help to intervene in an attempt to persuade President Trump to deal with the continuing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill.”
And they noted that White House officials “acknowledged that this may be” the only person who can get Donald Trump to act.
Representative Benny Thompson (center), chairman of the January 6th election commission, said the group wanted to hear from Ivanka Trump.
The panel also noted that Kellogg had told them that he had “very strongly” advised Trump not to make a live televised statement that day, “because press conferences are getting out of hand and you want to control the message.”
“Obviously, some White House officials believed that a direct press appearance by the president in the press in the midst of Capitol Hill violence could worsen the situation,” the panel said.
Eventually, President Trump made a video statement from the Rose Garden, which was published online. He reportedly had to make several takes to get one staff member released.
“The selection committee understands that many photos of the video were taken but not used. The information available to Select suggests that the president failed in the original videos to ask the rebels to leave the Capitol. The special commission looked for copies of these unused videos from the National Archives, “the panel noted.
“You have information that is directly related to the actions or inactions of the president on January 6 and his state of mind during the violent attack in the Capitol. The special commission will evaluate your voluntary cooperation with the investigation on these issues “, the commission wrote to Ivanka.
The commission also revealed its investigation into whether or not President Trump ordered the National Guard to respond.
“The committee has not identified any evidence that President Trump issued an order or took any other action to deploy security that day. Nor does it appear that President Trump has ever called the Department of Justice or any other law enforcement agency to request the deployment of their staff in the Capitol, the panel wrote, saying it wanted to discuss the matter with it.
Finally, the group said it wanted to talk to Ivanka about efforts by White House officials and others – including Fox News presenter Sean Hannity – to stop President Trump from making statements, claiming the election had been “stolen” by him.
They cite an exchange of text messages between Haniti and then-press secretary Kaylee McEnnany, who has already testified before the commission, where Haniti wrote to her: “The key now. No more crazy people.
“Yes, 100%,” Makenani wrote.
“The elected commission would like to discuss this effort after January 6 to persuade President Trump not to associate with certain people and to avoid further discussions on allegations of electoral fraud,” the panel wrote to Ivanka.