The US House of Representatives Special Committee called out to Ivanka Trump: I hope to cooperate with the investigation of the Capitol Hill riots

The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi

Ivanka Trump

On January 20, local time, Benny Thompson, the chairman of the House Special Committee who is responsible for investigating the riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, said the committee wanted to talk to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Trump and former senior white house adviser, about the Capitol Hill riots to obtain relevant testimony.

CnN reported on Jan. 20 that the committee said in a letter to Ivanka Trump that it hoped she would "voluntarily cooperate with the commission's investigation." Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, the committee's vice chair, said the committee's "first-hand testimony" showed that Ivanka Trump had asked her father, then-U.S. President Donald Trump, to "stop this violence" at least twice during the Capitol Hill riots. Ivanka Trump's spokeswoman told CNN later that Ivanka Trump had learned that the commission had asked her to voluntarily cooperate in the investigation into the Capitol Hill riots, though it was not clear whether she would cooperate.

Earlier, Cheney said in an interview with ABC News that there was evidence that during the Capitol Hill riots, a number of members of Trump's inner circle, including Ivanka, Trump's son-in-law Kushner, etc., urged him to let his supporters stop the violence, but Trump did not listen to persuasion and did not "act" at the scene of the incident for 187 minutes. Cheney said: "At the time of the attack, Trump was watching the riots on television in the restaurant next to the Oval Office , the official office of the President of the United States , while the White House briefing room was just steps away from the Oval Office. Trump could have demanded his supporters to stop the violence via live television, but he didn't. ”

On January 6, 2021, a large number of supporters of then-US President Donald Trump tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and violently prevent the orderly transition of power of the US president. The supporters then forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, forcing the suspension of a joint session of the House of Representatives, which was certifying the outcome of the election. On Jan. 13, the House of Representatives voted to pass an impeachment case against Trump, accusing him of "sedition," but the Senate acquitted him. On June 30, the House of Representatives voted to form a special committee to investigate riots in the Capitol. At present, U.S. prosecutors have arrested more than 700 suspects, of whom 165 have pleaded guilty.

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