Is Ivanka Trump Cooperating With Jan. 6 Committee Against Her Dad Donald Trump?

Ivanka Trump is in talks with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot to appear for an interview, a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump‘s daughter said. Last month, the House committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, asked Ivanka Trump to appear before the panel voluntarily.

Thompson said the committee believes that on January 6, Ivanka Trump was in the Oval Office during a phone call between her father and former Vice President Mike Pence. They want to know if she heard or participated in conversations about her father’s plan “to obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes.”

Thompson also wrote that several former White House staff members had testified before the committee. They indicated they requested Ivanka Trump’s assistance “on multiple occasions to intervene in an attempt to persuade President Trump to address the ongoing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill.”

Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and former Vice President Pence’s national security advisor, said Ivanka Trump and White House officials urged the president twice to condemn the violence.

Donald Trump allegedly said no to aides, including his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and the White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Kellogg then asked Ivanka Trump to speak to the president, saying: “She went back in because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious.”

In an interview with the Washington Examiner last month, the former president criticized the committee’s investigation into his children, saying, “It’s a very unfair situation for my children… very, very unfair.”