Ivanka Trump, daughter of the former US president, told the House committee on Tuesday that she tries to clarify what role played Donald Trump in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump's hearing continued into the afternoon, committee chairman Bennie Thompson confirmed to CNN. “Answer the questions. That is, without extending, but he responds,” he said, adding that he does not know if he ever accepted his right to remain silent.
“He came of his own free will, that has significant value,” he added.
The daughter of the former president, who was her father's adviser when she was in the White House, was not summoned to appear, but in January she was invited to do so before this House committee, which is mostly composed of Democrats.
The congressmen claimed to have evidence showing that Ivanka had tried to convince her father to call for an end to the violence when a crowd of supporters of the former president broke into Congress to prevent congressmen from certifying Joe Biden's victory.
Congressmen are interested in “any conversation” she had witnessed or participated in, especially in a phone call from Donald Trump on January 6 in the morning.
It is believed that that day he tried to force then-vice president Mike Pence to stop counting the votes that would validate Biden's victory in the November 2020 elections.
“You were in the Oval Office and witnessed at least part of this telephone conversation,” Bennie Thompson said in his invitation letter.
This commission has already questioned nearly 800 witnesses, including Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump, last week for six hours via videoconference. Kushner was also an adviser to the former president.
His testimony has been “useful” to the commission, according to one of its members, Elaine Luria.
The American press has recently released several revelations about the months leading up to the assault.
Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for example, sent more than 20 messages between November 2020 and January 2021 to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's chief of staff, imploring him to block Biden's victory.
Kushner's name appears on one of them, sent on November 13.
The US press also revealed a vacuum of nearly eight hours in Donald Trump's phone calls from the White House on January 6, 2021, particularly during the period when protesters forced entry into the Capitol.
According to the commission, Trump could have used unofficial channels, such as prepaid phones that are difficult to track. The former president flatly denied it.
The committee is finalizing the investigation and plans to hold public hearings. He wants to finish before the mid-term elections in November. If the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives in these elections, they risk the Republicans dissolving the commission.
(With information from AFP)
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