The US Congressional committee investigating the invasion of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters sent a message this Thursday (20) to Ivanka, the former president’s daughter, asking for her “voluntary cooperation” with the investigations.
Ivanka had an advisory role in the White House during her father’s tenure. The committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on American democracy has closed the siege around the former president, calling for close aides to depose and seeking to hear his family members.
The message sent to Trump’s daughter underscores that lawmakers expect her to cooperate on a voluntary basis, for a deposition in which questions would be limited to events related to the day of the invasion – including activities that led up to the episode or influenced it – and her role in the House. White.
The text highlights that Ivanka “was in the Oval Office” in situations that may have a connection with that day and that she would have overheard a phone conversation between the then president and his vice on the morning of January 6 itself —Trump pressured Mike Pence, who would lead the Congressional session to certify Joe Biden’s victory, to refuse data submitted by states, which he refused to do.
“The committee has information that suggests that White House advisers may have concluded that guidance the [então] president addressed to [então] vice president would violate the Constitution or otherwise be illegal,” the agency’s coordinator, Bennie Thompson, says in the letter.
The deputy also claims to want to know if Trump would have made any effort or given an order for the deployment of troops or security agents that could contain the violence of his supporters in the act – the message highlights that there is still no evidence that such a measure has been put in place. In practice. Five people were killed and 140 police officers were injured in the raid.
Public records indicate that at the time, the then president held a rally to question the popular vote and urged his supporters to fight. Then, during the attack, he withdrew and remained quiet for more than two hours. Messages delivered to the committee recently indicate that he has heard calls — among others, from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and son Donald Jr. — to do something.
According to Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is a member of the House collegiate, the body would have also received information that Ivanka twice asked her father to intervene in some way during the attack on the Capitol.
Donald Trump has been attacking the efforts of the committee, whom he accuses of partiality and partisanship, and has tried in court to hamper the investigation work. On Wednesday, he suffered one of his toughest defeats in that context, after the Supreme Court rejected a request to block the release of White House documents to the congressional panel.
Democratic congressmen are in a bit of a hurry because they want to finish work before the November legislative elections, in which the party’s minimal majorities in both houses of Congress are threatened. Republicans, who opposed the commission’s creation, are seeking to regain control of the House and thus end the inquiry.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for Ivanka Trump issued a note on the summons, in which he did not clarify whether she intends to cooperate with the investigations. “As the committee knows, Ivanka did not speak at the January 6 rally. That day, at 3:15 pm, she publicly said: ‘Any breach of security or disregard for the law is unacceptable. The violence must stop immediately,'” the statement reads.
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