Ivanka Trump.Photo: ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty
The bipartisan House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots last year announced Thursday that it is requestingIvanka Trumpprovide information via a voluntary interview, noting that she “was in direct contact with the former President at key moments on January 6th and that she may have information relevant to other matters critical to the Select Committee’s investigation.”
The letter continued: “The Committee would like to discuss any other conversations you may have witnessed or participated in regarding the President’s plan to obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes.”
A spokeswoman for her did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Ivanka Trump speaks during the Republican National Convention on Thursday.Getty Images
Republican Rep.Liz Cheney, vice chair of the committee, told ABC News earlier this month that the committee has “firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in [the Oval Office] at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence,” as the riots unfolded.
Ivanka initially drew near immediate backlash online amid the riots, when she shared a tweet callingthe violent mob that stormedthe U.S. Capitol “American Patriots.”
“You’re saying these people are ‘patriots’ ??” a CNN reporter wrote back to her, to which Ivanka claimed that she was being misunderstood.
“No. Peaceful protest is patriotic. Violence is unacceptable and must be condemned in the strongest terms,” shewrote, deleting the initial tweet entirely.
Since leaving the White House, Ivanka has avoided the spotlight and made only periodic public appearances, including for charity. She has also encouraged people to get their COVID-19 vaccines — a social media sentiment that drew praise but also conservative backlash from some of her followers.
Trump himself is among those who has been compelled to bring forward documents related to the investigation, after the Supreme Courtdenied the former president’s bidto block the committee from seeing records related to the planning, execution and response to events on Jan. 6.
source: people.com
