Ivanka Trump testified before January 6 committee last week and it sure sounds like she flipped on her father.
The former first daughter spoke to the panel for eight hours last Tuesday. Afterward, Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson described her testimony as cooperative. Meanwhile, Rep. Liz Cheney told CNN Ivanka was “helpful”, adding, “It’s absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, that they knew it was unlawful.”
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Now, former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says that he believes Ivanka likely “incriminated” her father during her testimony.
In an appearance on The Stephanie Miller Show on Friday, Kirschner said he thinks Ivanka’s testimony was bad for her father based on previous reports that she tried numerous times on January 6, 2021 to get him to call off the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Donald Trump refused, according to Keith Kellogg, a retired military general and Pence’s national security adviser,” Kirschner noted.
“He [Kellogg] said, ‘I tried and failed. [Former White House chief of staff] Mark Meadows tried and failed. [Former White House press secretary] Kayleigh McEnany tried and failed.”
The legal expert, who has repeatedly called on the DOJ to indict the twice impeached ex-president, added, “Ivanka tried and failed, so we sent her back into the Oval Office a second time because she can be pretty tenacious, and she couldn’t get her father to stop the attack on the Capitol.'”
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He then assessed “that is a president in a very real way, waging war against the United States. Even his own daughter couldn’t stop him. That is deeply incriminating information. Presumably, it’s been provided by Ivanka under oath to the J-6 committee, and if I were prosecuting the case, she would be one of the very early witnesses I called.”
Per The New York Times:
Ms. Trump was one of several aides who tried to persuade the president to call off the violence that ultimately injured more than 150 police officers and sent lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence fleeing for safety, according to evidence gathered by the committee. She is not known to have been associated with the more extreme supporters of the former president who spread lies about widespread fraud after the 2020 election and planned efforts to try to keep him in power.
Watch Kirschner’s comments below…
The indictments are coming. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner: Ivanka Trump incriminated Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/hW9skSD61o
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 9, 2022
Now, some tweets…
Eric is the dumbest, Ivanka is the coldest, and Don Jr. is the meanest.
All three are equally greedy and corrupt.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) April 10, 2022
Boy, Ivanka and Jared really want to get back in with the New York high society crowd, don’t they?
— Susan Myers (@wyldheart8) April 9, 2022
Wondering what else Ivanka talked about for hours with the committee pic.twitter.com/pP2MQ21bTZ
— ? Qpublican f*ckery detected (@adelpreore) April 10, 2022
Do you think Ivanka threw Don Jr. under the bus?
— Mayo ??? (@MayoIsSpicyy) April 11, 2022
I believe Mary Trump said this is exactly what would happen.
— Sema Londree (@SLondree) April 9, 2022
1/6 Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, described Ivanka Trump's testimony as helpful, which can't be good news for dear old dad..
— Old Man Lefty (@OldManLefty1) April 11, 2022
Well, it’s said she is the smart one of his kids.
— Susan Jane (🌻, 🇺🇦, 😷, 🏳️🌈) (@sjstill) April 9, 2022
I knew she would save herself.
— Chris 🇺🇸 🌻 💙 💛 (@clalter59) April 9, 2022
Jared and Ivanka testified earlier this week and now the January 6th committee says they have enough evidence on Trump for criminal referral.
Coincidence?
I think not.
— THE SAD TRUTH (@SmnWeekly) April 10, 2022
In January, Mary Trump went on MSNBC to say Ivanka would eventually flip on her father to save her own skin and was likely making a “calculation” as to what will “help her in the long run.”
“She knows she has to come down on the right side of things,” Mary predicted. “Or, she’ll continue to stay her father’s ally, and have to see how that plays out.”
“She’s in a very bad situation because she must understand that if Donald feels it’s necessary, he will stop protecting her. Donald will throw anybody under the bus if he believes it’s in his best interest to do so.”
ZzBomb
Great, no where the hell is Garland? He’s got several now in contempt of Congress and still silence.
Polaro
Garland is a democrat, so he is wasting time until it gets too close to the mid terms and then the republicans sweep in and shut everything down. Republicans are evil and Democrats are incompetent. I’m disillusioned.
[email protected]
Perhaps this hasn’t come to your attention, but the DoJ has opened up an extensive investigation and it has been underway for some time now and is quickly ratcheting up. But DoJ really doesn’t seek the news spotlight, so they are being very careful in proceeding. The J6 committee in the House may well submit a recommendation for prosecution, or they may decide not to. That in fact is all the committee can do– submit a recommendation. The committee cannot actually prosecute. Now, the DoJ is headed by Merrick Garland, and he no doubt had a part in getting the DoJ to open investigations, and since DoJ is by historic tradition an apolitical agency, they do not hold hearings. And any prosecutor worth their salt will make sure they have a tight case until bringing charges. So far, this is happening at just about the pace most knowledgeable attorneys would expect it to go.
Polaro
I sure hope she threw daddy and her mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging brothers under the bus. It would be an early Christmas gift if she did. I’m not holding my breath though.
Diplomat
Hmm. Toss daddy in jail then run for president. I like it. Tho I’d never vote for any republith*ug dictat*orship, her current thought processes are in order.
DuMaurier
It’s pretty clear Ivanka and Jared started distancing themselves from the situation when it became clear Trump lost the election but wasn’t going to concede. It doesn’t make them morally good or bad or even exceptionally intelligent; they just saw it was game over, it was time to fold, and crazy Daddy wasn’t going to do that, so the only thing to do was step away and leave Trump to the Giulianis and the other zealots who were willing to break the law and constitution to keep him in power. I doubt she had to (in her own words) say any more than that to the committee.
She probably doesn’t know any more about the nuts and bolts of the coup than we do; I’m sure she confirmed that yes, she tried to persuade Crazy Daddy to call off the insurrection and didn’t get anywhere. We already knew that, but it’s a nail in the coffin that’s now on the record.