Ivanka Trump is seen with then-President Donald Trump at his rally exterior the White Home on Jan. 6, 2021.
Donald Trump Jr.
The Home choose committee investigating final 12 months’s Capitol riot requested Thursday that Ivanka Trump voluntarily seem earlier than the panel subsequent month.
In an eight-page letter to the previous first daughter, committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) identified that Ivanka was involved along with her father on Jan. 6, 2021, and noticed key communications between the forty fifth president and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
“On January sixth, you have been serving as Advisor [sic] to the President and head of the White Home Workplace of Financial Initiatives and Entrepreneurship, and have been current within the West Wing of the White Home,” Thompson wrote. “We write to request your voluntary cooperation with our investigation on a spread of vital subjects.”
Thompson promised that Ivanka would solely be requested questions on points associated to Jan. 6, “actions that contributed to or influenced occasions” on that day, or the youthful Trump’s “position within the White Home throughout that interval.”
The letter outlines 4 topics of the committee’s potential interview with Ivanka, together with any conservations she “might have witnessed or participated in concerning the President’s plan to hinder or impede the counting of electoral votes,” the previous president’s quick response — or lack thereof — to the lethal riot, whether or not her father gave any order to deploy the Nationwide Guard to the Capitol, and his conduct and actions within the days that adopted.
In its request, the committee alleged that Ivanka Trump had direct data of Donald Trump’s try and persuade Pence to reject electors from battleground states the place the previous president believed voter fraud had occurred.
“One of many President’s discussions with the Vice President occurred by cellphone on the morning of January sixth. You have been current within the Oval Workplace and noticed no less than one aspect of that phone dialog,” the letter learn.
Thompson additionally cited different testimony to the committee that indicated White Home employees requested Ivanka Trump to assist intervene “in an try to influence President Trump to handle the continued lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill.”
The chairman proposed Ivanka Trump meet with the committee on Feb. 3 or 4, however indicated the panel might additionally organize a gathering through the week of Feb. 7.
“A full and correct accounting of what occurred on January sixth is vital to the Choose Committee’s legislative suggestions,” Thompson concluded. “And the American folks deserve to know all of the related particulars. Thanks upfront on your consideration of this request.”
In current months, the committee has subpoenaed dozens of Trump supporters and allies for his or her testimony or paperwork concerning the riot. Many, together with ex-White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows, have denied the request, citing their Fifth Modification rights.
Thursday’s request for testimony is just like requests despatched to Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Scott Perry (R-Pa.).
All three lawmakers have rebuffed the committee.
Final week, McCarthy blasted the inquiry, saying the panel “desires to interview me about public statements which have been shared with the world, and personal conversations not remotely associated to the violence that unfolded on the Capitol. I've nothing else so as to add.”
The committee is predicted to increase an identical request to Pence within the coming weeks.
Ivanka Trump had not responded to the committee’s letter as of Thursday afternoon.
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