Panel has testimony that Ivanka asked Trump to stop January 6 riot: Liz Cheney

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection of the US Capitol has a ‘first hand testimony’ that Ivanka asked her father Donald Trump to intervene on the day,  vice chair Liz Cheney said. 

Speaking to ABC News, the Wyoming Representative and a Republican member of the committee said that the Ivanka Trump, who was Trump’s senior adviser, asked the commander-in-chief to stop the violence. 

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“We have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence,” Cheney said. In addition to this Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, told CNN the panel has ‘significant testimony’ that the White House “had been told to do something.”

Cheney, further added that it’s “hard to imagine a more significant and more serious dereliction of duty” than Trump’s inaction that day.

“The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred.”

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“The briefing room at the White House is just a mere few steps from the Oval Office. The president could have at any moment, walked those very few steps into the briefing room, gone on live television, and told his supporters, who were assaulting the Capitol, to stop. He could have told them to stand down. He could have told them to go home. And he failed to do so,” she added.

On January 6 last year, Trump spoke at a rally seeking to overturn the results of the Presidential election. He urged his  supporters to “fight like hell” and then a mob attempted to physically stop the certification of Biden’s win. Several rioters died that day before the 45th President issued a statement urging his supporters to go home. More than 700 people have been charged with crimes in connection to the riot.

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According to Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s book  ‘I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year’, Ivanka  told her aides at one point that day: “I’m going down to my dad. This has to stop.”

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Thompson told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” Sunday: “We have significant testimony that leads us to believe that the White House had been told to do something. We want to verify all of it so that when we produce our report and when we have the hearings, the public will have an opportunity to see for themselves.”

“Well, the only thing I can say, it’s highly unusual for anyone in charge of anything to watch what’s going on and do nothing,” he added.