Daddy’s going to be very angry if she cooperates. So she won’t. But she was no different than Sen Hannity or Kevin McCarthy or any number of other wingnuts who begged him to stop the insurrection and he refused:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on Thursday requested cooperation from Ivanka Trump, as it painted a dire picture of a frenzied and fruitless scramble inside the White House that day to get President Donald J. Trump to denounce and call off the mob that was laying siege to the Capitol.
In a letter to Ms. Trump, the former president’s eldest daughter who served as one of his senior advisers, the committee said it had obtained evidence that multiple White House officials — including Ms. Trump, at least twice — had implored Mr. Trump to call off the violence, only to be rebuffed. But aides at the time were also worried about Mr. Trump issuing anything other than a scripted statement during the mayhem.
“Apparently, certain White House staff believed that a live, unscripted press appearance by the president in the midst of the Capitol Hill violence could have made the situation worse,” wrote Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the panel’s chairman.
The summoning of Ms. Trump suggested that the committee was delving deeper into the question of what Mr. Trump was doing and saying as the attack unfolded, as it seeks to determine his intentions and state of mind during the assault. The letter also made clear that the panel has already uncovered substantial evidence about those critical hours inside the White House from key players who were present that day.
In the letter, Mr. Thompson wrote that investigators had received information from Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who was Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser, about Mr. Trump’s refusal to condemn the violence, despite White House officials urging him to do so.
Mr. Kellogg testified that Mr. Trump had rejected entreaties by him as well as Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, and Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary. Mr. Kellogg then appealed to Ms. Trump to intervene.
“She went back in, because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious,” Mr. Kellogg testified.
He also told investigators that he had recommended “very strongly” against the president speaking on live television, because his “press conferences tend to get out of control.”
The committee also revealed that Mr. Kellogg testified that he and Ms. Trump witnessed a telephone call in the Oval Office on the morning of Jan. 6 in which Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence to go along with a plan to throw out electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. when Congress met to make its official count of the results, thus invalidating the 2020 election and allowing Mr. Trump to stay in office.
Mr. Kellogg told the committee that the president had accused Mr. Pence of not being “tough enough” to overturn the election.
Ms. Trump then turned to Mr. Kellogg and said, “Mike Pence is a good man,” Mr. Kellogg testified.
Oh daddy is going to be extremely angry about that.
By the way, Ivanka’s tweet that day was a little bit less respectable than they indicate:
She deleted that when she realized she was aclling a violent mob of insurrectionists “patriots.”
The idea that daddy’s little girl had any real influence is ridiculous. Trump liked having her around because she is beautiful and he thinks that reflects on him (among other reasons…) I’m sure she could get her way in things that don’t matter much to him. But does he really respect her? I highly, highly doubt it.
Update:
“The committee has information suggesting that President Trump’s White House counsel may have concluded that the actions President Trump directed Vice President Pence to take would violate the Constitution or would be otherwise illegal,” Mr. Thompson wrote. “Did you discuss those issues with any member of the White House Counsel’s Office?”
The committee says they have a document that shows this. Oh my…