The committee publicly released a letter dated Thursday addressed to Ivanka Trump seeking “voluntary cooperation with our investigation.” In the letter, the committee revealed explosive new details about the former President’s actions on the days leading up to and on January 6. A spokesperson for the former President’s daughter told CNN Thursday afternoon that “Ivanka Trump just learned that the January 6 Committee issued a public letter asking her to appear.”“As the Committee already knows, Ivanka did not speak at the January 6 rally,” the spokesperson said. The panel is asking Ivanka Trump for her account of this conversation and any other ones she may have witnessed where her father discussed plans to obstruct or impede the election certification process. “If POTOS [meaning President Trump] allows this to occur…we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic” the text message reads. Ivanka Trump repeatedly tried to intervene, talking to her father three times.

Source: CNN January 20, 2022 19:16 UTC