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THE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING the US Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former US president Donald Trump, to voluntarily co-operate with its probe.
The committee sent a letter today 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 under way.
“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 president Trump to address the ongoing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill,” Bennie Thompson writes.
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 fuelled the lie that the election had been stolen from the former president.
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.
The National Archives began to turn over the hundreds of pages of records to the nine-member panel almost immediately.
They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with January 6 from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The House committee’s investigation has touched nearly every corner of Trump’s orbit in the nearly seven months since it was created.
The panel says it has interviewed nearly 400 people and issued dozens of subpoenas as it prepares a report set for release before the November midterm elections.
The committee says the extraordinary trove of material it has collected – 35,000 pages of records so far, including texts, emails and phone records from people close to Trump – is fleshing out critical details of the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries, which played out on live television.
The next phase of the investigation will be more public-facing, starting with a series of public hearings in the coming months.
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Not cracks but the grand canyon
“I think it’s probably a lack of political will or lack of urgency on the issue and associated resources to match that,”
Just like health and housing no politician’s kids at risk. Ah but sure the country is flying.
This should be the first thing every country should solve. Who doesn’t understand that has no clue or doesn’t care about future generations.Abusive behavior creates new abusers. I was against death penalty, but changed my mind. pedos and traffickers should get it.
But Irish liberals scream racist at any suggestion of screening and our politicians back down out of fear of the hysterics that surround theses issues. The liberals don’t care about genuine victims, only about those who take offence.
@Morning Gus: nonsense
And yet whenever there’s an article about a missing teenager here, there are often many comments accusing the missing child of “playing stupid Facebook games” or just looking for attention without any knowledge of their backgrounds or situation. I especially worry about the kids where the only photo available seems to be an ID photo of some sort. I often wonder why there isn’t any recent pictures of them, smiling, at a family occasion or with their friends. Don’t they have anyone who cares enough about them to take these kind of photos? Nobody who wants to make memories with them they can keep forever? These are the kids that are vulnerable to these s€um because nobody cares about them. These abusers are often the first time they’ve been ‘cared’ about.
How many children have been placed by Tusla in foster homes where abuse has happened and were left in that home. I would guess it’s happening left right and centre and it will continue because nobody is ever held accountable in that agency for anything it seems.
@Lyndsay Rehn:
That is another serious problem. Tusla is not fit for purpose…nor were the childcare services before it. How hard could it be to organise the welfare of vulnerable kids without destroying them?
The whole issue of child trafficking has been hijacked by organisations that are constantly deriving their relevance from sex work abolitionism. On the surface, when it comes to protecting children there shouldn’t be much harm that mentality could do, but it is more complicated than that.
They are deeply committed (and have, in turn committed a portion of our laws) to an ideology that focusses on sex as a threat to the exclusion of all other considerations. This distorts everything they do, in terms of research and solutions, too far from reality to be harmless, let alone of any real use to real victims.
In the real world, by the time a child of being subjected to unwanted sex that is unlikely to be the only threat he lives under and is damaged by, let alone the worst one. To help such a child you have to acknowledge, and rescue him from ALL the things that threaten him, not just the sexual threats that support a specific ideology, because if you are not looking at the whole picture and are ready to ignore, dismiss, or even just downplay non-sexual threats to him and his survival his survival instinct will drive him away from you and deeper into sexual exploitation, because that is less dangerous to him than you are.
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