The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, to cooperate with its probe voluntarily.
The committee sent a letter this week requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in early February.
In the letter, committee chairman Bennie Thompson says she was in direct contact with her father during key moments on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to halt certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win.
The committee says it wants to discuss what Ivanka Trump knew about her father’s efforts to pressure then-vice president Mike Pence to reject the 2020 election results, including a telephone call they say she witnessed.
They also want to discuss concerns that she may have heard from Pence’s staff, members of Congress, and the White House counsel’s office about those plans.
The panel cited testimony that she implored her father to quell the violence by his supporters and said it wants to ask about her actions while the insurrection was underway.
“Testimony obtained by the committee indicates that members of the White House staff requested your assistance on multiple occasions to intervene in an attempt to persuade [Trump] to address the ongoing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill,” Thompson wrote.
The letter is the committee’s latest attempt to seek information from inside the Trump family as it has broadened its investigation.
Earlier this week, it issued subpoenas to Rudy Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie that the election had been stolen from Trump.
The committee also received a major win Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected a bid by Trump to block the release of White House records sought by the committee, clearing the way for their release.
