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Ivanka Trump appeared “visibly upset” during the riot on Capitol Hill, according to the committee’s Jan. 6 report.
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He said he tried to persuade his father, then-President Donald Trump, to suspend the rioters.
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The report also details how other aides tried to get Trump to stop the attack on the Capitol.
Ivanka Trump appeared “visibly upset” after she tried to persuade her father, then-President Donald Trump, to call off his supporters when they attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a report by the House committee investigating the unrest.
According to the reportPosted Thursday, Ivanka Trump, who served as a White House adviser during her father’s presidency, told the committee that she had unsuccessfully tried to reason with her father while his supporters ransacked the Capitol and at one point retreated to the her husband’s office. , Jared Kushner, “because she needed to ‘regroup’ and get back on her feet.”
Witnesses backed up her account, saying she seemed upset and as if she had just had a “difficult conversation.”
Multiple witnesses told the committee about attempts to persuade Trump to intervene and try to stop the violence, which he refused to do, instead watching the attack as it unfolded on television.
Ivanka Trump was recruited by aides to try to reason with her father and convinced him to deliver a message urging protesters to “stay peaceful” as violence escalated. According to the report, she made several attempts throughout the day to get her father to condemn the riot more forcefully.
“I remember her saying at various times,” witness Cassidy Hutchinson told the committee, that “she wanted her father to send them home. She wanted her father to tell them to go home in peace, and she wanted to include language that he didn’t necessarily agree with at the time.”
Three hours after the attack on the Capitol began, Trump finally issued a message telling his supporters to go home.
Before the riots, Trump delivered a fiery speech to his supporters, who subsequently marched on the Capitol and attacked him in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president.
The report argued that Trump was responsible for the attack and recommended that he be barred from the charge. The January 6 committee has referred Trump to the Justice Department on charges including insurrection.
Trump has denied responsibility and claims the committee is politically motivated.
Ivanka Trump served as an adviser during Trump’s tenure, but He has since distanced himself from his father’s political career, announcing that he will not participate in his campaign for the presidency in 2024.
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