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Source: CNN
Cheney: January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka asked Trump to intervene during insurrection
By Daniella Diaz and Devan Cole, CNN
Updated 1922 GMT (0322 HKT) January 2, 2022
Washington (CNN) Members of the House select committee investigating January 6 said Sunday that they have critical testimony about communications to former President Donald Trump on the day of the deadly attack.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee and one of its two Republican members, told ABC News that the panel has "firsthand testimony" that during the attack, Trump's daughter and then-senior adviser Ivanka Trump asked him to intervene. And Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told CNN the panel has "significant testimony" that the White House "had been told to do something."
"We know his daughter -- we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to 'please stop this violence,'" Cheney told ABC News. CNN previously reported on some of these interactions, described in the book "I Alone Can Fix It" by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
Thompson told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday: "We have significant testimony that leads us to believe that the White House had been told to do something. We want to verify all of it so that when we produce our report and when we have the hearings, the public will have an opportunity to see for themselves."
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html
Walleye
(31,017 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Incest is best
Trump 2024
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)So he didnt listen to his little girl. His favorite of the degenerate spawn. The only reason she had ANY government function was because daddy made it so.
Everybody in the fucking country knew he had to do something. So she did too. Big Deal.
Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)Beastly Boy
(9,323 posts)She does appear to be smarter than the rest of the spawn (not much of a compliment). I wonder what other first hand testimony the committee got out of her, and what Jared thinks about it.
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)StarryNite
(9,444 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)ShazzieB
(16,382 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)Meadows perhaps? Whoever it is, that's got to gall Donnie something fierce since he values "loyalty" so highly. Blind loyalty to him anyway.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)" JUST WATCH- I DON'T KNOW HIM ! "
RevBrotherThomas
(838 posts)I'm not sure I understand what this proves or how it affects DT that seriously.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd think anybody reasonably familiar with Donald Trump would know he'd never back down from anything once it was set in motion, believing in his personal godhood to come out smelling like a rose. All these characters begging Trump to "do something" seem to me to be out of touch with that reality.
-- Mal