Trump turns on IVANKA and said she had ‘long checked out’ after the election

Donald Trump turned on his daughter Ivanka Trump after her testimony to the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection revealed she didn’t think the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

In a 17-second clip of her interview to the committee that was played during Thursday’s primetime hearing, Ivanka backs up Trump Attorney General Bill Barr’s assertion that the election wasn’t stolen from her father.

‘I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he said — was saying,’ she says.

The former president said on Friday that Ivanka was ‘not involved in looking’ at the results of the 2020 election. 

‘Ivanka Trump was 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 Truth Social, around 12 hours after part of her testimony was revealed. 

‘It was a shocking turn of events. Trump and his daughter were known for their close relationship and she was seen as his favorite child. She served as an adviser in his White House and Trump often said she could be president one day.

Trump had turned on other advisers who testified before the panel and who refused to back his false claim he won the 2020 election over Joe Biden.

But it was believed Ivanka testified before the panel with tact approval from her father. 

In a series of posts on Truth Social, the former president denied he said his vice president Mike Pence should be hanged for not supporting his false claim he won the election. He also repeated his false claim he was the real winner and berated lawmakers for not investigating his allegations of election fraud, which have never been proven. 

Donald Trump turned on his daughter Ivanka Trump after her testimony to the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection revealed she didn’t think the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Her testimony saying she supported Bill Barr’s rejection of the fraud claims was aired during Thursday’s primetime hearing 

In April, Ivanka Trump spent eight hours testifying before the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, where Donald Trump supporters attempted to stop the certification of the election.

She reportedly was one of the White House staff who went to the Oval Office multiple times on January 6th, asking her father to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

But a forthcoming book details how Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who served as a senior counselor to Trump, were preparing for their post-White House lives shortly after the election and Trump’s false claims he won the contest.

On November 5, 2020, within 24 hours of Trump first publicly proclaiming he was the true winner, Kushner turned to Ivanka and told her, ‘We’re moving to Miami, according to the book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser. 

‘No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen,’ according to the book, which cites people close to them. 

During Thursday evening’s hearing, the January 6th committee also played a clip of Kushner’s testimony. He was interviewed by the panel for six hours in March.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is shown asking him about threats from Trump’s White House counsel to resign over the former president’s conduct.

‘Jared, are you aware of instances where Pat Cipollone threatened to resign?’ she said.

‘Like I said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many’ pardons done as possible, Kushner said. 

‘And I know him and the team were always saying, we are going to resign, we are not going to be there if this happened, if that happens. So I kind of took it up to be just whining, to be honest with you,’ he noted.

Kushner was notably absent during critical periods in the last days of the Trump White House and he was overseas on January 6th.

Ivanka and Jared now live in Miami with their children. Ivanka’s staff did not respond immediately to DailyMail.com’s request for comment. 

In his series of early morning posts on Truth Social, Donald Trump also denied

‘I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ he wrote. ‘This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!’

During Thursday evening’s hearing, Cheney said of Trump: ‘Aware of the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence ‘deserves’ it.’ 

There were gasps in the hearing room at her words. 

Trump was furious with Pence for not stopping the certification of the election. 

Pence, as vice president, oversaw the certification of the electoral college results in a ceremonial role that required him to preside over Congress as lawmakers certified the election.

On January 6th, it was Pence who worked to stop the MAGA supporters and help officials retake control of the Capitol.

The then-vice president was hiding in the Capitol complex as Trump supporters were heard chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence.’ 

Joint Chief of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley said it was actually Pence making the calls to the Pentagon.

‘Vice President Pence – there were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very animated, and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. There was no question about that,’ Milley said in his videotaped testimony.

Jared Kushner told the committee that he thought White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s constant threats to resign over the fraud claims in the wake of January 6 were just ‘whining’

Ivanka Trump waves to her dad when he’s at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office in 2019

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump now live in Miami with their three kids. A new book details how the pair split with Trump in the aftermath of the election as he spread his fraud claims 

Donald Trump claimed he never said he wanted Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged

During Thursday’s prime time hearing, members of the January 6th panel played video taped testimony from Bill Barr and Trump campaign officials that showed they had told Trump he had lost the White House race. 

In the clip of Barr’s testimony, the former attorney general said he had three conversations with Trump about the 2020 election results, where he made it clear he thought the election was legitimate.

‘One was on November 23. One was on December 1, and one was on December 14, and I’ve been through sort of the give and take of those discussions. And in that context, I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the President was bulls***,’ he said.

Barr resigned from the Justice Department in December 2020 after conflicts with Trump about the election outcome.

Trump slammed Barr as a ‘weak and frightened’ attorney general. 

‘The Democrats hit pay dirt with Barr, he was stupid, ridiculously said there was no problem with the Election & they left him alone. It worked for him, but not for our country!,’ he wrote on Truth Social.

In his postings on social media site, Trump kept up his lie he was the real election winner and berated the committee for not investigating his claims of election fraud. 

‘So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the Election Fraud and Irregularities that took place on a massive scale,’ Trump wrote. ‘Our Country is in such trouble!’  

Cheney, who earned Trump’s ire for serving on the January 6th committee, blamed Trump directly for the insurrection.

‘Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president,’ Cheney said during the hearing.

‘President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.’ 

Trump hit back at the allegations he caused the mob to flood the building.

‘The so-called ‘Rush on the Capitol’ was not caused by me, it was caused by a Rigged and Stolen election,’ he wrote. 

Trump took to Truth Social to hit back against Thursday’s prime time hearing on the January 6th insurrection

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Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, in Thursday’s prime time hearing, blamed Donald Trump directly for the January 6th insurrection

And Jason Miller, who served as Trump’s campaign spokesman and remains a senior adviser to the former president, claims the committee edited his testimony with the clip they played.

In the clip played by the committe, Miller described a call that took place a few days after the election between rump and Matt Oczkowski, a campaign data expert. 

Oczkowski told Trump on the call he was going to lose the election based on the election returns, Miller testified. 

Miller told the panel that Trump didn’t believe Oczkowski’s analysis.

‘He believed that Matt was not looking at the prospect of legal challenges going our way and that Matt was looking at purely from what those numbers were showing as opposed to broader things to include legality and election integrity … issues which, as a data guy, he may not have been monitoring,’ Miller recalled telling the panel. 

Miller later tweeted what he said the committee left out of his testimony.

‘Here’s what came next in my testimony, which Liz Cheney failed to play,’ Miller tweeted. 

‘Q: Okay. And what was the President’s reaction then when Matt said to him, ‘Hey, we’ve looked at the numbers, you’re going to lose’? 

‘A: I think it’s safe to say he disagreed with Matt’s analysis. 

Trump family testimonies, shocking unseen riot footage, and Democrats blaming it all on Donald who ‘led the attempted coup as part of a sophisticated seven-part plan: January 6 hearing’s big takeaways 

The first in a series of June hearings examining the January 6, 2021 aired on nearly all major networks on Thursday.

Some of the big reveals of the event included shocking unseen footage of riots, testimonies from Ivanka and Jared Kushner and a Capitol Cop. 

It also saw Democrats and close allies of former President Donald Trump turn on him, saying he ‘led the attempted coup as part of a sophisticated seven-part plan.’

The made-for-TV hearings – including video of police officers being brutally beaten and right-wing extremists leading the crowds into the Capitol – come as some have tried to downplay the violence.

‘We can’t sweep what happened under the rug,’ said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the panel, as he opened the hearing. ‘The American people deserve answers.’

The committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews with people connected to the siege and collected more than 140,000 documents. They will use that evidence over the course of seven hearings this month to show how the attack was coordinated by some of the rioters in the violent mob that broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory – and how Trump’s efforts started it all.

Here are some takeaways from the January 6 committee’s first hearing:

LAYING IT ALL ON TRUMP

Thompson laid out the committee’s initial findings that Trump led a ‘sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election’ and the insurrection was a culmination of that ‘attempted coup.’ The panel’s vice chairwoman, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, called it a ‘sophisticated seven-part plan.’

‘The attack on our Capitol was not a spontaneous riot,’ said Cheney, one of two Republicans on the nine-member panel.

The hearing featured never-before-seen video testimony from Trump’s family and close aides, many of whom were interviewed by the committee remotely.

The panel started by showing a video interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr, who said he told Trump at the time that his fraud claims had no merit. Barr, who said publicly a month before the insurrection that the Justice Department had not found fraud, told the committee members that he had told Trump it was all ‘bull–.’

The panel also showed video testimony from Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who spoke to the committee in April. Ivanka Trump told the panel that Barr’s declaration ‘affected my perspective.’

‘I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said,’ she told the committee.

Another Trump adviser, Jason Miller, told the panel that campaign advisors had told the president in ‘clear terms’ that he had lost the election.

‘THIS ISN’T EASY TO WATCH’

The committee showed new, graphic video from the insurrection, moving through a timeline of the violence. It started with rioters angrily walking toward the Capitol, then showed them breaking through thin police barriers and brutally beating police.

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Using security footage, police body cameras, video from those who broke in and audio from the police scanner, the video showed rioters using flagpoles, tactical equipment and other weapons to hit officers as they overwhelmed them and broke inside. Some of the body camera footage was from the ground looking up, as officers watched their attackers beat them.

At the same time, it showed what was happening inside – the beginning of the joint session to certify Biden’s election win and, people fleeing from the violence.

And it showed the rioters chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ referring to the vice president who had defied Trump’s orders to try to thwart Biden’s certification, and chanting ‘Nancy! Nancy!’ as they walked up a staircase inside the Capitol, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

There was also video of staff members running out of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s office in the Capitol on the afternoon of January 6 as the chaos unfolded

AN OFFICER OVERWHELMED AND INJURED

Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer, testified in graphic terms about the bloody scene outside the Capitol that day and the traumatic brain injury she suffered when members of the Proud Boys and others pushed her to the ground as they led the mob into the Capitol.

Edwards was alone and holding two bike racks together at the front lines as the mob heaved toward her, pushing her and the racks to the ground. She hit her head on a concrete stairway, briefly falling unconscious.

Even with her injury, Edwards continued to fight off the crowd. She described a ‘war scene’ out of the movies and hours of hand-to-hand combat that no law enforcement officer is trained to handle.

‘They were throwing up – I saw friends with blood all over their faces,’ said Edwards, who has still not returned to duty in the first responders unit where she worked then. ‘I was slipping in people’s blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos.’

EXTREMIST GROUPS’ INVOLVEMENT

The panel’s other witness was British filmmaker Nick Quested, who was with members of the Proud Boys as they walked from Trump’s rally in front of the White House to the Capitol. Quested was also filming members of the group the day ahead of the attack as they planned and met with members of the Oath Keepers in an underground garage.

The committee used some of Quested’s footage of the war zone in front of the Capitol.

‘For anyone who didn’t understand how violent that event was, I saw it,’ he said. ‘I documented it and I experienced it.’

Thompson said Trump’s call for people to come on January 6 ‘energized’ members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups. They highlighted Trump’s comment at a presidential debate that the Proud Boys should ‘stand back and stand by.’

The panel showed video testimony with a witness named Jeremy Bertino, a member of the Proud Boys, who said the group’s membership ‘tripled, probably’ after Trump’s comment.

MADE FOR TELEVISION

The committee took the unusual step of launching the hearings with a prime time show – aimed to gather as many viewers as possible.

It’s still unclear how many will tune in, but the panel is producing the hearing in hopes of becoming must-see television, featuring never before seen video footage of the violent insurrection.

The hearing room was also set up for impact, with a huge screen hanging over the lawmakers.

An image of committee members from left to right, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, (D-Florida.), Rep. Pete Aguilar, (D-California), Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-California), Rep. Zoe Lofgren, (D-California), Chairman Bennie Thompson, (D-Mississippi), Vice Chair Liz Cheney, (R-Wyoming), Rep. Adam Kinzinger, (R-Illinois), Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-Maryland)., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-V., look on

An image of committee members from left to right, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, (D-Florida.), Rep. Pete Aguilar, (D-California), Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-California), Rep. Zoe Lofgren, (D-California), Chairman Bennie Thompson, (D-Mississippi), Vice Chair Liz Cheney, (R-Wyoming), Rep. Adam Kinzinger, (R-Illinois), Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-Maryland)., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-V., look on