Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the former US president, testified yesterday, a week after her husband Jared Kouchner, in the special committee of inquiry of the House of Representatives that seeks to shed light on the role played by Donald Trump in Donald Trump. 2021 against the Capitol.
The testimony was confirmed to CNN yesterday afternoon by the chairman of the commission, Benny Thompson.
“Answer questions. I want to say, without expanding, but she answers “, said Mr. Thomson, stating that she did not know if she invoked at any time her right to remain silent so as not to incriminate herself.
“He came voluntarily, that’s of great value,” he added.
An adviser to Donald Trump’s father’s inner circle when he was a White House resident, Ivanka Trump was not summoned to testify. He was invited in January to speak before this committee of the House, which consists of a majority of Democrats.
Members then explained that they had evidence that she had tried to persuade her father to publicly call for an end to the violence when a mob stormed the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021 to try to prevent members of Congress from ratifying the Minneapolis victory. .
The elected officials were interested in “every conversation” of which he witnessed or participated, especially a telephone conversation between Donald Trump on the morning of January 6th.
In it, he tried to force then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop counting the votes, which would confirm the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 presidential election.
“You were present at the Oval Office and you heard at least part of this telephone conversation,” Benny Thompson said in a letter of invitation.
The commission has taken testimony from nearly 800 witnesses, including Jared Kouchner last week – it was videotaped for about six hours. Mr. Kouchner, Ivanka Trump’s husband, was also a top adviser to the former president.
His testimony was “useful” to the committee, according to one of its members, Elaine Louria.
His testimony followed a series of press reports about what had happened in the months before the attack that shook the American republic.
It was revealed that Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of senior member of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, had sent more than 20 messages between November 2020 and January 2021 to Mark Meadows, the during this period, calling on him to prevent the handover of power to Joe Biden.
Jared Kouchner’s name appears on one of them, which was sent on November 13th.
The American press also revealed that there is a gap of almost eight hours in the record of the White House telephone calls for January 6, 2021, especially during the hours when the protesters invaded the Capitol.
According to the commission, Mr. Trump may have used informal channels of communication, for example prepaid cell phones that are very difficult to detect, something that the former president has categorically denied.
The special examination committee is nearing the end of its investigation and intends to hold public hearings in the spring. She wants to make every effort to complete her work before the November midterm elections. If Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives in this year’s election, she is considered in danger of being ousted by Republicans and seeing her job buried.
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