“The heat is on. It’s on the street.” — Glenn Frey
If this was a mystery novel, right about now the two rich clowns in Florida would be gassing up the family plane and checking the weather in Belize so that they could flee to freedom before things got even worse. Ivanka Trump has trouble coming in the doors and windows right now and any minute somebody may drop legal paperwork down the chimney as well. A judge in New York shattered any dreams that Ivanka, brother Don and Daddy had of not having to testify for the attorney general. And on the heels of that the January 6 Committee has made it known that in light of Ivanka’s refusal to cooperate with them voluntarily, they are considering subpoenaing her. The Guardian:
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is considering issuing a subpoena to Ivanka Trump to force her cooperation with the inquiry into Donald Trump’s efforts to return himself to power on 6 January, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Any move to subpoena Ivanka Trump and, for the first time, force a member of Trump’s own family to testify against him, would mark a dramatic escalation in the 6 January inquiry that could amount to a treacherous legal and political moment for the former president.
Ivanka is fully expecting this. She got Bennie Thompson’s letter last month and she indicated that she didn’t intend to cooperate voluntarily. Ergo, the Committee may have no choice but to compel her to do so legally.
The chairman of the select committee, Bennie Thompson, said in an 11-page letter requesting her voluntary cooperation last month that the panel wanted to ask about Trump’s plan to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory to return himself to office.
Ivanka Trump was close to the former president in the days leading up to the Capitol attack, Thompson said, and appeared to have learned the plan to have the then vice-president, Mike Pence, refuse to certify Biden’s election win in certain states was possibly unlawful.
“The committee has information suggesting that President Trump’s White House counsel may have concluded that the actions President Trump directed Vice-President Pence to take would … otherwise be illegal. Did you discuss these issues?” the letter said.
The letter added House investigators had additional questions about whether Ivanka Trump could say whether the former president had been told that such an action might be unlawful, and yet nonetheless persisted in pressuring Pence to reinstall him for a second term.
Thompson also said in the letter that the panel wanted to learn more about Trump’s indifference to the insurrection, and discussions inside the White House about his tweet castigating Pence for not adopting his plan as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol in his name.
The letter said a persistent question for Ivanka Trump – who White House aides thought had the best chance of persuading the former president to condemn the rioters – was what she did about the situation and why her father did not call off the rioters in a White House address.
The select committee said in the letter that they also wanted to ask her about what she knew with regard to the long delay in deploying the national guard to the Capitol, which allowed the insurrection to overwhelm law enforcement into the afternoon of 6 January.
Thompson said that House investigators were curious why there appeared to have been no evidence that Trump issued any order to request the national guard, or called the justice department to request the deployment of personnel to the Capitol.
Thompson’s letter was sent a few weeks ago, right after a court rejected Trump’s request to block the release of more than 700 White House documents. It’s coming up in the news again since Trump was slapped down yet again by a court this morning, when a New York judge refused to grant his motion to quash the subpoenas for himself, Junior, and Ivanka to be deposed. The thought is that the J6 Committee might want to bide its time a bit since Ivanka already has one deposition to go to in the near future.
All in all, it’s not a good day to be a Trump. And that’s nobody’s fault but their own.
To Ivomit, I guess it really is just all about playing government……that is, until the government stops playing.
*smirk*
She’s covered in more innocent blood than sissy spacek in Carrie.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn she considers the legend of the long ago Hungarian ruler Elizabeth Bathory something to emulate. (Bathory was said to have bathed in the blood of virgins she murdered or had murdered)
She took an active role in the former guy’s businesses; she has to know more than she wants to admit.
“If this was a mystery novel, right about now the two rich clowns in Florida would be gassing up the family plane and checking the weather in Belize so that they could flee to freedom before things got even worse.”
Wouldn’t do them any good to go to Belize. The US has an extradition treaty with that country.
There are plenty of countries the US can’t extradite from (some notables include Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, North Korea, most of Africa) but we have extradition treaties with pretty much every country in the Western Hemisphere (even Cuba).
But, but daddy said I don’t have to talk to you and he was president – you’re just congresspeople.
Unfortunately for her, she has no clew that daddy rump will throw her under the bus to save his own sorry butt. She should seize the opportunity to throw him under and move to Texas with minion cruzzzzz.