From left: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty
A special counsel hasissued subpoenasto former White House senior advisersIvanka TrumpandJared Kushneras part of its federal investigation into the deadly Jan. 6, 2021,Capitol riots.
The New York Timesreports that special counsel Jack Smith issued the subpoenas just weeks aftersubpoenaing former Vice President Mike Penceto also testify before a grand jury.
Portions of both of those testimonies would later be publicly televised,with Ivanka’s, in particular, making headlines.
On day one of the public hearings, the committee aired footage of Ivanka’s pre-recorded testimony, in which said that she “accepted” that the election results showed her father had lost toJoe Biden.
The reason, she added, was that former Attorney General Bill Barr — who called Trump’s claims that the election had been stolen “bulls—” in his own testimony — explained to her the results.
“It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he said,” Ivanka testified.
The House select committee’s final meeting.Lo Scalzo Jim/Pool/ABACA/Shutterstock
The former president, meanwhile, has since disputed that his daughter was even familiar with election results, despite the fact that they are public.
“Ivanka Trumpwas not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!),” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, after the hearings aired.
The DOJ has been leading a separate probe into the events of that day, when a mob of angry Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol as members of Congress were assembled to certify the election for now-President Biden.
Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty
“We will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” Garland said in a July 2022interview.
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In September,The New York Timesreported that the DOJ had issued an estimated 40 subpoenas to former aides and campaign staffers of Trump, including former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and Dan Scavino, who previously served as the White House deputy chief of staff for communications and director of social media.
Trump, his family and supporters have repeatedly and insistently denied wrongdoing in the various criminal, congressional and civil inquiries. No charges have been filed against the former president.
source: people.com
