The Guardian has confirmed that the eldest daughter of former President Donald Trump and a former senior White House adviser will speak virtually at the panel. Her testimony will come after that of her husband and former presidential adviser, Jared Kouchner, who spoke to the panel for more than six hours last week. After Kouchner’s testimony, Maryland Democrat Jamie Ruskin, a member of the committee, told the Guardian: “There is a momentum in this process when there is cooperation. “When people see that others are doing the right thing, it gives them the courage to do the right thing.” A bipartisan Senate report has linked seven deaths to an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by supporters who said Donald Trump was “fighting like hell” in the service of trying to reverse his defeat by Joe Biden. Trump was fired for inciting the uprising, but was acquitted when several Republican senators remained loyal. The House committee on Jan. 6 includes two Republicans, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. As the Guardian reported this week, the commission recognized Ivanka Trump as a senior adviser who would have known that her father’s attempt to prevent the certification of the results of the Electoral College at the Capitol was illegal. Referring to a law professor who presented the plan to block the certification, a federal judge recently said it was “more likely that President Trump and Dr. [John] “Eastman conspired dishonestly to prevent the joint congressional session on January 6, 2021,” and thus committed multiple crimes. The commission also hopes that Ivanka Trump could help explain a gap of more than seven hours in the White House’s January 6 call logs. Ivanka Trump’s role in her father’s government has long been a lightning rod for controversy. On Monday, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics watchdog in Washington (DC) said: “Here’s a question Ivanka Trump can answer: How did she and Jared make $ 640 million while working ‘for free’ in the White House?”
