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What does Ivanka Trump know about Jan. 6? Congress is asking
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Pence rebuffed the de-
Associated Press mand, issuing a lengthy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- statement afterward laying
dent Donald Trump was out his conclusion that he
in the Oval Office with his had no power to influence
daughter Ivanka and Vice the outcome.
President Mike Pence’s na- When the call ended,
tional security adviser on Ivanka Trump turned to re-
the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, tired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg
when he made yet anoth- and said, “Mike Pence is a
er push to pressure Pence. good man.”
Trump again told Pence “Yes, he is,” Kellogg replied.
that he had a duty to re- Now the House committee
ject Electoral College votes investigating the riot wants
that would formalize Dem- to know what else Ivanka
ocrat Joe Biden’s victory in Trump heard and saw that
the 2020 presidential elec- day as they try to stitch to-
tion, something the vice gether the narrative of the
president had no authority riots and the former presi-
to do in his ceremonial role dent’s role in instigating
in Congress that day. them. There was a frantic
“You don’t have the cour- effort by many of Trump’s
age to make a hard deci- top supporters to persuade
sion,” Trump told Pence, him to intervene, and some
according to congressio- directly sought to use his President Donald Trump watches as daughter Ivanka Trump speaks at a campaign event at the
nal testimony. Even after daughter as their conduit. Kenosha Regional Airport, Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis.
Trump called him a “wimp,” Continued on Page 2 Associated Press