Ivanka Trump

2022 - 4 - 6

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Ivanka Trump testifies before panel probing US Capitol riot (Aljazeera.com)

The testimony from the former president's eldest daughter comes after her husband last week appeared before the panel.

Several Trump allies have resisted giving testimony to investigators. The committee has so far interviewed hundred of witnesses and collected thousands of documents during its investigation, which has sought to pierce Trump’s inner circle to determine if any crimes were committed surrounding the Capitol riot. Such a determination could lead the panel to criminally refer Trump to the Justice Department.

Ivanka Trump Testifies for 8 Hours Before Committee Investigating ... (PEOPLE.com)

"She's answering questions. I mean, you know, not in a broad, chatty term, but she's answering questions," the committee chair told CNN.

The nature of Ivanka's testimony this week has not yet been disclosed in detail but the House investigators said in January that her "role and actions on January 6th as the riot was underway at the Capitol are also a key focus for the Select Committee." "One of the President's discussions with the Vice President occurred by phone on the morning of January 6th," Thompson wrote in January to Ivanka. "You were present in the Oval Office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation." "President Trump is wrong," Pence said in February. "I had no right to overturn the election." Kushner, also a former Trump White House official, testified in March and provided "helpful" information," a lawmaker on the committee told NPR. (Reps for him and Ivanka did not respond to PEOPLE's requests for comment.) "As January 6th approached, President Trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade Vice President [ Mike] Pence to participate in his plan," Thompson wrote, referring to a scheme the former president has acknowledged, insisting that Pence somehow could have — and should have — rejected electoral votes presented to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, because of baseless claims of fraud. Ivanka Trump, eldest daughter of former President Donald Trump and a top White House aide while he was in office, reportedly testified for about eight hours on Tuesday before the bipartisan congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jan. 6 Panel Questions Ivanka Trump for 8 Hours (TIME)

The House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection questioned Ivanka Trump for eight hours on Tuesday, asking about her recollections of that day inside ...

The panel sought to question her on conversations Donald Trump had on Jan. 6 with then-Vice President Mike Pence, and why quicker action wasn’t taken on to help stop the violence at the Capitol that day. Thompson had previously written to Ivanka Trump requesting her voluntary cooperation “on a range of critical topics,” in a publicly released letter that pointed out other witness testimony placing her in the Oval Office during during some moments on Jan. 6 and the days leading up to it. The House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection questioned Ivanka Trump for eight hours on Tuesday, asking about her recollections of that day inside the White House with her father, former President Donald Trump.

Jan. 6 panel hears Ivanka Trump (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, who served as one of his senior advisers, testified for about eight hours ...

Trump has tried to exert executive privilege over documents and interviews, but in many cases has been overruled by courts or Biden, who has that authority as the sitting president. Members of the committee said Kusher's testimony was helpful and were hoping to further fill in the gaps with her help. She is not known to have been associated with the more extreme supporters of the former president who claimed there was widespread fraud after the 2020 election and planned efforts to try to keep him in power. In the letter dated Jan. 20 requesting her voluntary testimony, the committee said it had heard from Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who was Pence's national security adviser. "I don't know anything else we could ask Donald Trump that the public doesn't already know," Thompson said. It was not immediately clear how revelatory her testimony was for the committee.

Ivanka Trump spends 8 hours with Jan. 6 committee, House to vote ... (Boston Herald)

First daughter and former senior advisor to the president Ivanka Trump spoke to the committee a day before the full House will vote to hold others in ...

A vote to hold both Navarro and Scavino Jr. in contempt of congress will occur today, according to the House schedule. Committee Vice-Chair, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, said the committee has spoken to many other witnesses in pursuit of answers. “We are entering a critical stage of our investigation. A trial on contempt of congress charges against him will begin on July 18. A former senior advisor to the 45th president on Tuesday appeared before the House select committee investigating the January 6th riots just a day before the full House will vote to hold two other former advisors in contempt of Congress for failing to do so. Bannon and Meadows have since been referred to the Justice Department for contempt of congress, though only Bannon has been indicted to date.

Ivanka Trump spends hours speaking with Jan. 6 committee on ... (witf.org)

The daughter and onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump appeared less than a week after her husband Jared Kushner, whose testimony several members ...

Its goal is to issue an interim report this summer, and final report in the fall. Committee members and staff have questioned more than 800 people, on top of compiling reams of documents. Kushner, also a former White House senior adviser, appeared before the committee last Thursday for more than six hours. The panel has also obtained evidence from other witnesses showing White House staff had asked for her help to intervene and get her father to tell the rioters to go home. Thompson said the two high-profile witnesses were part of a group that were most frequently in former President Trump’s orbit. She was the first Trump family member approached by the committee to voluntarily appear.

Jan. 6 committee testimony forces Ivanka Trump to choose between ... (Salon)

The Jan. 6 probe threatens to "bring her entire brand down along with her father's," reporter warns.

So to imagine that we're in a situation where she actually believe these lies that the president was spreading, which is what makes her testimony so important, because a critical thing here is whether or not Donald Trump actually believes the lies that he was telling about the stolen election. There was always the story that said, 'Well, you know Ivanka was trying to push him in the right direction behind the scenes.' So this sort of seems like an ongoing theme here because Jan. 6 is now this monumental event that is shaping the entire Trump presidency. "You know, I think it's present to this broader theme that we saw throughout the Trump administration where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner tried to make themselves out to be the reasonable people in the room," Reilly said, "and they kept saying that they were trying to push Trump in the right direction.