Former US President Donald Trump criticized his daughter Ivanka this Friday for the comments he made in an interrogation by the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and which were met last night at the first public hearing of that commission.
The former president spoke on the social network that he himself created after his expulsion from Twitter and which bears the name of “Truth” (Truth).
At the first public hearing of the committee investigating the Capitol attack, investigators showed an excerpt from the interrogation of Ivanka, who appeared voluntarily.
Trump is a critic
On a large screen in the committee room, it was possible to see how the president’s daughter recognized for the first time that she did not believe that there was fraud in the 2020 presidential elections, as her father still maintains, who lost to the Democrat and current president, Joe Biden.
Investigators asked Ivanka for the perspective of then-Attorney General William Barr, who repeatedly told Trump there was no fraud.
“It influenced my perspective,” Ivanka said. Asked if Barr’s insistence on the legitimacy of the election changed his view of the existence of fraud, Trump’s favorite daughter replied, “I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
participated in the observation
In response, Trump alleged that his daughter did not participate in the observation or the study of electoral results.
“She had been out for a long time. And, in my opinion, she was just trying to be respectful of Bill Barr and his status as attorney general,” the former president said.
Trump ended his message by charging Barr and calling it “sucks!”
The former attorney general also voluntarily responded to questions from the committee, and an excerpt from his appearance was projected during the hearing last night, describing Trump’s lies about fraud as “pure bullshit.”
Assault on the Capitol
The first hearing of the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol took place on Thursday night, during prime time. And it was broadcast live on the main television networks in the country. This as an attempt to impact American public opinion.
Almost 20 million people followed the hearings on television in the United States, where some 320 million citizens live. This according to figures preliminary released this Friday by the consulting firm Nielsen.
On January 6, 2021, some 10,000 people – most of them Trump supporters – marched towards the Capitol and some 800 broke into the building with the aim of interrupting the parliamentary session in which Biden’s victory in the elections was to be certified.
Five people died, including an officer after suffering a heart attack hours after the assault, and about 140 officers were attacked. In addition, 4 police officers subsequently committed suicide.