WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, former President Donald J. Trump’s eldest daughter, who served as certainly one of his senior advisers, plans to testify on Tuesday earlier than the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, based on an individual accustomed to the matter.
Ms. Trump was certainly one of a number of aides who tried to influence the president to name off the violence that finally injured greater than 150 law enforcement officials and despatched lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence fleeing for security, based on proof gathered by the committee.
The schedule for her testimony, which was reported earlier by NBC, comes days after her husband, Jared Kushner, who was additionally a prime adviser to Mr. Trump, sat for an interview and offered what one member of the panel described as “worthwhile” and “useful” data.
“There have been some issues revealed, however we’ll simply share that a little bit later,” Consultant Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, mentioned of Mr. Kushner’s testimony.
Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner are among the many highest-ranking Trump White Home officers to testify earlier than the committee. The interviews have been closed to the general public because the panel conducts its work in secret.
Ms. Trump’s attorneys have been in talks with the committee since January, when it despatched her a letter requesting voluntary testimony. Within the letter, dated Jan. 20, the committee mentioned it had heard from Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant common who was Mr. Pence’s nationwide safety adviser. Mr. Kellogg had described Mr. Trump’s refusal to sentence the violence because the mob engulfed the Capitol, regardless of White Home officers — together with Ms. Trump, at the very least twice — urging him to take action, the letter mentioned.
Mr. Kellogg testified that the president had rejected entreaties from him in addition to from Mark Meadows, his chief of workers, and Kayleigh McEnany, the White Home press secretary. Mr. Kellogg then appealed to Ms. Trump to intervene.
“She went again in, as a result of Ivanka might be fairly tenacious,” Mr. Kellogg testified.
Mr. Kellogg additionally testified that he and Ms. Trump had witnessed a phone name within the Oval Workplace on the morning of Jan. 6 during which Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence to associate with a plan to throw out electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. when Congress met to certify the Electoral Faculty outcomes. The decision to Mr. Pence was a part of an effort to invalidate the 2020 election and provides Mr. Trump an opportunity to remain in workplace.
Mr. Kellogg advised the committee that the president had accused Mr. Pence of not being “powerful sufficient” to overturn the election. Ms. Trump then mentioned to Mr. Kellogg, “Mike Pence is an efficient man,” Mr. Kellogg testified.
The committee has interviewed greater than 800 witnesses and plans to interview dozens extra. Mr. Thompson advised reporters on Monday that he had licensed 5 extra subpoenas that day.
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Ivanka Trump to testify. The previous president’s daughter, who served as certainly one of his senior advisers, plans to testify earlier than the Jan. 6 Home committee. Ms. Trump was within the West Wing as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. She is claimed to have tried to influence her father to name off the rioters.
Mr. Thompson mentioned the committee had dominated out a subpoena for Mr. Pence, citing “important data” it had obtained from two of his aides, Marc Brief and Greg Jacob.
“There received’t be a subpoena,” Mr. Thompson mentioned, including, “We’ve been in a position to validate lots of the statements attributed to President Trump and the vp with out his particular testimony.”
“There’s no effort on the a part of the committee to get him to come back in,” he mentioned of Mr. Pence, including: “We initially thought it might be necessary, however at this level we all know that folks broke in right here and wished to hold him. We all know that his safety element needed to shield him in an undisclosed location within the Capitol. We all know the individuals who tried to get him to vary his thoughts, concerning the rely and all of that. So what’s it we want?”
Mr. Thompson additionally indicated that the panel can be more likely to name Mr. Trump as a witness.
“I don’t know anything we may ask Donald Trump that the general public doesn’t already know,” Mr. Thompson mentioned. “He ran his mouth for 4 years.”
