Imagine what’s going on in the mind of Ivanka Trump, Princess Purses, as she sees the days flit by on the calendar and knows that she has to sit for a deposition called by the attorney general of New York State in the next two weeks. Along with that, the January 6 Committee is pressuring her to cooperate with them on what Daddy said or did on January 6. Ivanka has said she has no intention of going the way of Steve Bannon and being subpoenaed, according to the New York Times and so she’s talking about being interviewed voluntarily. And isn’t this intriguing? Daddy hasn’t been screaming at her not to do it, like he has all the others.
“Ivanka Trump is in discussions with the committee to voluntarily appear for an interview,” a spokeswoman for Ms. Trump confirmed in a statement on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump has not requested that his daughter defy the committee’s requests, as he has done with his other former top aides. And Ms. Trump would be unlikely to take any step that Mr. Trump did not know about and approve of, people familiar with her thinking said.
Instead, the former president has portrayed his adult children as victims of an investigation that he has dismissed as illegitimate.
“It’s a very unfair situation for my children,” Mr. Trump told The Washington Examiner last month. “Very, very unfair.”
Meanwhile, Rudy is raving about attorney client privilege. Psssst, Rudy: If the two of you were engaged in criminal activity together, that sorta kinda vitiates any attorney client privilege, doncha think? No, Rudy does not think. That’s why he’s in the hot water he’s in and that’s why he’s not practicing law in New York currently.
During those discussions, Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer has made clear to the committee that the former New York mayor does not intend to provide information against Mr. Trump, under the argument that it would violate attorney-client privilege and Mr. Trump’s claims of executive privilege, but he is considering providing information about his dealings with members of Congress, according to a person familiar with the talks.
As the Capitol was under siege, both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump called lawmakers in an attempt to delay the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
They were both obstructing the normal process of election certification.
The Committee has some idea of what happened that day from Keith Kellogg. He testified that even Kayleigh McEnany was begging Trump to stop the riot. That might account for the fact that she looked like she’d been run over by a truck when she briefly went on camera before the press.
Mr. Kellogg testified that Mr. Trump had rejected entreaties by him as well as Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, and Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary. Mr. Kellogg then appealed to Ms. Trump to intervene.
“She went back in, because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious,” Mr. Kellogg testified.
Mr. Kellogg also testified that he and Ms. Trump witnessed a telephone call in the Oval Office on the morning of Jan. 6 in which Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence to go along with a plan to throw out electoral votes for Mr. Biden when Congress met to make its official count of the results, thus invalidating the 2020 election and allowing Mr. Trump to stay in office.
Ivanka has studiously avoided the spotlight and hasn’t even been active on Twitter since January, 2020. She was going to be the upgrade of Daddy, all the “Trump savvy” but more polished, “without the mean tweets and erratic behavior.” I’m pretty sure she’s forgotten about all that by now, but who knows, maybe she and Jared still discuss which one of them should run for president. These people are very removed from reality and the next few months is going to be quite an awakening.
Why not both? She has to know that the NY AG has them dead to rights – they *did* do all that stuff.