How the new focus on Ivanka Trump and Jan. 6 will expose dark MAGA truths

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Will Saletan
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This analysis by @ThePlumLineGS looks at where the Jan. 6 committee is going with its letter seeking Ivanka's testimony. They're building a case that Trump, when he tweeted during the attack that Pence had failed, recognized the mob's violence as a weapon.

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Opinion | How the new focus on Ivanka Trump and Jan. 6 will expose dark MAGA truths
The Jan. 6 committee is on track to unmask MAGA-world's ugliest intentions.
7:58 AM · Jan 22, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/21/ivanka-trump-jan-6-committee-expose-maga-truths/

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The committee’s new focus on Ivanka Trump signals what this eventual pile-up will look like. It shows the committee is developing an unexpectedly comprehensive picture of how inextricably linked the violence was to a genuine plot to thwart a legitimately elected government from taking power.

Which, in turn, should make it harder for Republicans to campaign on Jan. 6 mythologizing without facing more intense scrutiny and blowback.

The importance of the role of the former president’s daughter emerges from the committee’s letter inviting her to testify. As the violence raged, President Donald Trump sent a tweet attacking Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to subvert the congressional count of electors.

This tweet energized many in the mob to break into the Capitol and try to disrupt the count themselves, according to federal indictments cited in the letter. Importantly, as all this happened, Ivanka Trump was in the middle of efforts to persuade her father to call off the rioters, the letter notes. Instead, he incited them by attacking Pence.

The letter adds:

We are particularly interested in discussions inside the White House and with the President before and after his 2:24 p.m. tweet. Testimony obtained by the Select Committee indicates that members of the White House staff requested your assistance on multiple occasions to intervene in an attempt to persuade President Trump to address the ongoing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Will she throw her dad under the bus?

She doesn't really need him, she has her own slum-lord husband.

[madaboutharry]

2. I read that during just one of the years Trump was in office

Jared and Ivanka had an income of $82,000,000. How did that even happen?