Headline Roundup • January 20th, 2022
Jan. 6 Committee Asks Ivanka Trump to Cooperate With Capitol Riot Investigation
US House,Ivanka Trump,January 6 Committee,Liz Cheney,Donald Trump,Capitol Chaos,National Guard,White House,Politics
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House Jan. 6 committee sent a letter to Ivanka Trump on Thursday asking her to voluntarily cooperate with its investigation.
The committee’s letter included questions about a Jan. 6 phone call by former President Donald Trump which Ivanka Trump reportedly witnessed, internal White House communications surrounding tweets sent by the former president, Donald Trump’s lack of action to deploy the National Guard, and efforts by Fox News’ Sean Hannity and others to dissuade Donald Trump from talking about his election fraud allegations. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told ABC News (Lean Left) earlier this month that “We have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence.”
Coverage made top headlines in most major outlets on the left and center, as well as some major outlets on the right. Coverage was mostly balanced across the spectrum. Coverage from the left and center tended to describe the Capitol riot more specifically; the Washington Post (Lean Left) referred to it as “when his supporters attempted to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as president that day,” and the Washington Examiner (Lean Right) called it only “the riot.”
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The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is asking Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the former president, to appear for a voluntary deposition to answer questions about Donald Trump’s efforts to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
The move by the panel marks an aggressive new phase in its inquiry into the 6 January insurrection, as House investigators seek for the first time testimony from a member of the Trump family about potential criminality on the part of the former president.
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chair of the...
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The House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot requested Thursday that Ivanka Trump voluntarily appear before the panel next month.
In an eight-page letter to the former first daughter, committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) pointed out that Ivanka was in contact with her father on Jan. 6, 2021, and observed key communications between the 45th president and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
“On January 6th, you were serving as Advisor [sic] to the President and head of the White House Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship, and were present in the West Wing...
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking Ivanka Trump, former President Trump's daughter and one of his White House advisers, to voluntarily sit down with the committee.
The request — the first official outreach to a member of the Trump family — notes that Ivanka Trump spent considerable time with her father in the days leading up to Jan. 6, including witnessing a conversation between him and Vice President Mike Pence ahead of Congress's certification of the 2020 presidential election.
“The Select Committee wishes to discuss the...
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