The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has interviewed nearly 500 witnesses so far and the AP just reported on some of the latest findings, including what Ivanka Trump allegedly said about Mike Pence hours before the insurrection.
According to congressional testimony, after Pence refused to follow Donald Trump‘s orders to reject the Electoral College votes on the morning of January 6, 2021, the former first daughter turned to retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg and said, “Mike Pence is a good man.”
To which Kellogg, who briefly served as acting national security adviser in the Trump White House before becoming Pence’s national security adviser, responded: “Yes, he is.”
Now, why is this significant? To understand, we need to go back to something Mary Trump said on MSNBC last month.
Related: Mary Trump makes another ominous prediction about Ivanka: “She’s in a very bad situation”
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Speaking to Alex Witt, Mary predicted that Ivanka will eventually flip on her own father if she feels it’s in her best interest.
“She knows she has to come down on the right side of things,” she said. “Or, she’ll continue to stay her father’s ally, and have to see how that plays out.”
Mary added that Ivanka is likely making a “calculation” as to what will “help her in the long run.”
“She’s in a very bad situation because she must understand that if Donald feels it’s necessary, he will stop protecting her.”
If it’s true that Ivanka called Pence “a good man” on the morning of January 6, then it suggests two things: 1. Her moral compass might not be completely broken, just severely damaged, so maybe, just maybe, she’ll do the right thing, and 2. It provides her with precisely what she would need to throw her father under the bus when the time inevitably comes. She can now say, “You see! I was on the right side of things! I supported the vice president! And there are witnesses who can corroborate it!”
Related: The Jan. 6 committee wants to speak with Ivanka and things are about to get ugly
Of course, the most patriotic thing Ivanka could do right now is simply comply with the January 6 panel’s request for an interview that she was sent on January 20, but somehow we don’t think that’s gonna happen. She’s also not responding to requests for comment on this latest you’re a “good man” Mike Pence development.
Here’s what Twitter is saying about the whole thing…
Ivanka Trump turned to the General and said “Mike Pence is a good man” after Pence rebuffed her fathers demands that he overturn the election.
What does that make her father? https://t.co/h7jaTtwRHR
— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) February 7, 2022
She’s going to make her daddy / sugar daddy mad with this
— Paolo (@PMT2387) February 7, 2022
One of Trump’s kids knows EVERYTHING that will bury him. My money is on @IvankaTrump!! Would she flip on her dad to save herself? Hell yes she would! What better revenge for your abuser??
— Mrs. Friendly (@mrs_friendly) February 7, 2022
Seriously? Stop trying to normalize or rehabilitate Ivanka Trump. She is complicit in every immoral and illegal action commited by her father and her backdoor channel to enemies husband. You know it!
— Denise 😷 (@DizzyDenise23) February 7, 2022
Sounds like her PR team is putting this BS out to clean up her dirty reputation.
— DB😷☘️ (@pippers132) February 7, 2022
Ivanka is too busy helping her daddy sort through boxes to talk to the 1/6 panel. https://t.co/CxREYtai0l
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) February 8, 2022
Trump definitely throwing Ivanka under the bus now.
— David Diano🚗 (@daviddiano) February 7, 2022
@IvankaTrump did you flip yet? I’m guessing you’re a yes on brother D Jr.
— Darlene Foutz (@sweetdpdx) February 6, 2022
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
If Ivanka flips, fine, reduce her sentence, but there is no way she should be given immunity. Ivanka was head of the Trump org while it was doing all of its criminal and fraudulent activities. She is her father in a dress.
James Hart
When the Republicans retake control of the House and Senate in November, the Democrats will have Hell to pay. House and Senate Investigations into Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, and Nancy Pelosi will ensue and they’ll be ratings blockbusters. ALL of the truth will come out. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. LOL.
Cam, call me a troll if you wish. Everyone is tuning you out because you’re a Johnny-one-note. Whenever anyone disagrees with your opinions, you label them trolls. I’m just a fair-minded, gay libertarian who wants to get to the bottom of both the Democratic and Republican corruption. Trump, Biden, Pelosi, McCarthy, McConnell, and Schumer are all corrupt. They all should be brought to justice.
Today’s Democratic and Republican politicians remind me of (Democrat) Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was born to poor dirt farmers. Then he entered – “public service” – Congress, the Senate, and the White House. After his public service ended – he never worked in private industry – he became the multi-millionaire owner of TV and radio stations all over Texas, and he built for himself the 1000 acre LBJ Ranch. Pure corruption on his part.
Cam
@James Hart
LOL!!!!! I LOVE it when a different screename comes on and goes right for the “CAM, call me a troll if you want……”
You are so obsessed with me you can’t help but expose yourself can you?
That said, your attempt to deflect from the Criminal Ivanka, and her Criminal Father throwing each other under the bus to stay out of jail failed.
chacha
OMG that was a visual I really didn’t need.
Its all true and I agree with you.
Kangol2
The troll @JamesHart doesn’t quit! First they were a “Democrat.” Then they “voted for Democrats and Republicans.” Now they are a “gay libertarian.” I guess they’ll eventually land on something to call home. JH doesn’t seem to realize that Lyndon Johnson married a rich woman; Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, aka “Lady Bird,” was an heiress; her father own general stores, was a successful businessperson, and her progressive mother, who died when Lady Bird was a child, from an aristocratic Alabama family. SHE purchased their first radio station, using $17,500 of her own money, not him. She went on to buy several more. Lyndon Johnson built on his wife’s wealth, as anyone who has read any biographies of him understands, in addition to any corruption he may have engaged in, but he already had a leg up with his wife’s wealth.
You mention a rag-tag list of politicians from both parties but no matter how hard you try, nothing is going to detract from the multiple tracks of corruption that Don the Con has engaged in. He is rightly under investigation by Congress, the State of New York, Georgia, and SDNY. He also may be under investigation by the Department of Justice. The list of crimes he has allegedly committed outstrips any of the other people you conveniently named. We learned yesterday that he apparently destroyed official government records, yet another crime. Gay libertarian or whatever you may call yourself, if you’re trying to defend someone attempt a coup to overthrow state and federal elections, destroying government documents, aiding and abetting a foreign dictator’s regime and foreign policy, etc., you are clearly in the Don the Con cult, and we all see it!
James Hart
To Kangol2 and Cam:
I was a registered Democrat and a centrist who voted for Democrats and Republicans. I also voted for Biden because he was better than Trump. However, Biden has proven to be an inept and demented POTUS (Afghanistan, inflation, Ukraine, crime, illegal immigration, Covid, etc.). Hence, I re-registered as an independent, although philosophically I’m a libertarian.
I hold both the Democrats and Republicans in low regard. Furthermore, I believe everyone who broke the law should go to jail: DJT, Ivanka, and Hunter Biden, to name a few. When the Republicans win back the House and Senate in November, I’m sure Pelosi and the Bidens will be investigated and corruption will be uncovered. Stay tuned.
Kangol2
Note that JamesHart didn’t respond to facts about Lady Bird Johnson. As news reports will show (also cf. Wikipedia), her original and shrewd $41,000 investment in radio stations, at the right time (the 1950s), turned into a $150 million investment by the time the stations were sold in the early 2000s. They be worth even more today. Also, Lady Bird Johnson became the first president’s wife to have become a millionaire in her own right, not merely by inheriting either wealth from her parents (which she did) or from her spouse. Lastly, Mrs. Johnson was linked to the company into her 80s!
James Hart
Kangol2:
Firstly, gay men don’t have to be left-wing Democrats. I don’t live on the Democrat-controlled plantation, nor do I live on the Republican-controlled plantation. I can think for myself. Can’t you? Sadly, I find you very narrow-minded.
Secondly, read the biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson by the eminent historian, Robert Caro. Educate yourself, for a change. Mr. Caro spells out in detail LBJ’s corruption. For instance, Lady Bird’s “shrewd $41,000 investment ” – as you refer to it – was a sweetheart deal offered by Texas oilmen to buy LBJ’s support for their plutocratic economic interests when LBJ represented Texas in the Senate – especially when he was the Senate Majority Leader.
Thirdly, this sounds eerily like Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deals with Burisma in the Ukraine: Hunter sold access to Joe Biden. Hunter had no background or education in the energy field, but alas he got millions from Burisma. Why was that? If he were Hunter Smith instead of Hunter Biden, he wouldn’t have been paid millions of dollars. Due to House and Senate investigations, I’m sure the Republicans will unearth the Biden corruption when they regain control in November.
In essence, both parties are flawed, and many politicians from both parties are corrupt. If you can’t agree with that statement, then you are very ignorant and very gullible.
Cam
@James Hart
How adorable, you keep trying to deflect away from the fact that the Trump family are criminals and the law is closing in on them.
Now, by all means, go on a 4 paragraph screed about Johnson to deflect. LOL
James Hart
Once again, Cam, you are wrong.
Any Trump who engaged in criminal behavior should go to prison, and the same goes for any Biden.
I’m a straight-shooter with integrity. You are not.
LumpyPillows
It’s a very long stretch to go from “Mike Pence is a good man” to Ivanka will turn on Donny. I do not believe she will take a fall for Donny, but with the ineptitude of prosecution, I don’t think she is at great enough personal risk to feel threatened enough. She will continue to ignore it and live a great, privileged life. I hope it is true she has a soul, but I’m not buying it.
THAT Steve
I don’t doubt she knew it would be repeated and wanted to muddy the perception of her as being as bad as her father.
Mister P
I’m sure you can’t be very specific about the corruption of Biden, Pelosi etc. That would be because they aren’t.
Lady Bird built the broadcasting empire.
James Hart
Lady Bird also came from poverty and never had a job other than “homemaker” her entire life. How did she amass millions of dollars? Corruption? Yes.
As far as the Bidens and Pelosi, just wait until they’re investigated by the House and Senate Republican majority; I’m sure lots of corruption will be found. 🙂
Cam
So the right wing troll account was asked for specifics on it’s claim about Pelosi and Biden and it responded with……..a comment about Lady Bird Johnson.
So back to the Topic you’re desperate to avoid. Will the Trump’s turn on each other and take plea deas to send the others to jail…
Kangol2
@JamesHart, again, you are WRONG! Lady Bird Johnson’s father was a wealthy, successful businessman. She was not born or raised poor. It’s on the record–ignorance is not bliss!
James Hart
Cam: “So the right wing troll account was asked for specifics on it’s claim about Pelosi and Biden and it responded with……..a comment about Lady Bird Johnson.”
I responded with a comment about Lady Bird because the gentleman made some inaccurate assertions about her upbringing.
Furthermore, I’m sure that the Republican majority – which will win back the House and Senate in November – will unearth lots of corruption on the part of the Bidens and Pelosi. When they do, will you then agree that they should be prosecuted, or will you defend their criminal behavior?
You see, you and I are different. I am not an ideologue, but you are. I believe that the the Trumps should be prosecuted for any crimes they’ve committed, but you don’t believe that the Bidens and Pelosi should also be prosecuted if illegal behavior is found. Hence, I’m an honest broker and you are a hypocrite.
James Hart
Kangol2:
Please read the biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson by the eminent historian, Robert Caro. Educate yourself, for a change. Mr. Caro spells out in detail LBJ’s corruption. For instance, Lady Bird’s “shrewd $41,000 investment ” – as you refer to it – was a sweetheart deal offered by Texas oilmen to buy LBJ’s support for their plutocratic economic interests when LBJ represented Texas in the Senate – especially when he was the Senate Majority Leader.
Cam
@James Hart
You tried the same line about unearthing corruption under other screenames.
NOTHING enrages the same old right wing troll like an article pointing out the Trump family criminality.
James Hart
Sorry, Cam, but I’m not a right-winger.
I’m a libertarian.
I believe in gay rights, women’s rights, drug de-criminalization, abortion rights, the legalization of prostitution and a free market economy.
My philosophy in a nutshell: Stay out of my bedroom and my wallet.
Cam’s philosophy: Control the thoughts and words of everyone, grow the size and power of government, and tax everyone to death.
Kangol2
Note that @JamesHart could not counter my correction of his incorrect facts about Lady Bird Johnson. Whether she got a sweetheart deal or not (and Caro suggests she did–and since you claim to have read Caro’s biography, you would have known those basic facts about Lady Bird), she still bought the radio stations with her own money, which she inherited from her wealthy father. You are conflating different things to obscure the fact that you were incorrect, and in good Trumpian fashion still cannot admit it.
MISTERJETT
i just want to see p-grabber escorted away in handcuffs. that would just make my day.
JTinToronto
She’s probably not worried about money if she flips on the Orange Menace. Her husband is rich so she has a meal ticket even if daddy cuts her off. Right?
James Hart
The Kushners are no longer rich. DJT even got a friend of his – Tom Barrack – to bail out Jared Kushner so he didn’t have to declare bankruptcy.
Kangol2
JT, you’re correct. Jared Kushner’s father is worth well over $1.3 billion dollars. Whatever money Kushner or Ivanka Kushner may have (and they still have many millions, despite the financial squeezes he has been in repeatedly), the Kushner family (Charles, his wife, his two daughters, and Jared’s brother, who is a multimillionaire in his own right, married to a millionaire former super-model), are among the super-rich, and Jared’s inheritance will keep him in the super-rich category.
cubcmh
“Good” is a relative term.
v6origal97
If this couple can’t make it…
Jim
LOL. Ivanka, as always, like her father, is about self preservation and reward.
She’s postponing herself to through her father under the bus if it serves her or not if it serves her.
Like father like daughter.
Mister P
The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act actually make LBJ one of the greatest presidents ever.
James Hart
The Civil Rights Act trampled on the rights of property and business owners. The Voting Rights Act was decent.
GayConservMan
Hey James Hart, THANK YOU for bringing some actual intelligence into this conversation. It’s refreshing to see another gay man not let his ENTIRE MORAL COMPASS be guided by one’s sexuality.