WASHINGTON (Washington Insider Magazine) – Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, is in serious talks with a House panel on January 6 about appearing for a voluntary testimony, according to ABC News. It’s the first instance a person of the Trump family has met with a committee without being subpoenaed.
A spokesperson for Trump said in a statement on Wednesday that Ivanka is in talks with the panel about voluntarily appearing for an interview.
On the morning of January 6, 2021, Ivanka Trump was among a small group of advisors with the president within the West Wing as the Capitol was attacked after his address to supporters.
Ivanka’s anticipated participation comes as ABC News earlier revealed that the panel is in active talks with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani about testifying before the panel for an interview.
The board subpoenaed Giuliani last month, and he was scheduled to testify in early February. That meeting, although, was postponed.
Few members in the former president’s close circle have consented to appear before the House panel probing the Capitol attack, which killed 5 people and injured hundreds more, including over 100 law enforcement officers.
The panel is used to “persecute their political opponents,” according to Trump, and their requests are “not based on law or reality.”
Giuliani and associate Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, strategist Peter Navarro, GOP operatives Andrew Surabian and Arthur Schwartz, and White House speechwriter Ross Worthington have all been subpoenaed by the House panel in recent days.
The panel also wants to talk to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a strong confidant of Trump who talked to him the day of the Capitol violence.
Steve Bannon, a longstanding Trump strategist, defied a subpoena to testify before the panel and was prosecuted in November on accusations of criminal contempt of Congress.
