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For the entirety of her 40 years on earth, Ivanka Trump has had the dubious honor of being Donald Trumps favorite child. And while its difficult to imagine her doing literally anything that would result in Don Jr. or Eric moving up in the ranks, on Thursday evening she came extremely close when the January 6 committee aired a portion of her April testimony in which the former first daughter said she knew there was no evidence that her father had won 2020 election, i.e., the lie hes maintained for approximately 19 months now.

Not surprisingly the ex-president didnt take kindly to being thrown under the bus by his own flesh and blood, and on Friday morning, fired up the internet to inform his followers that his eldest daughter doesnt know what the hell shes talking about.

Ivanka, of course, stood by her father as he pushed his election liesas other members of the administration resigned in protestso she shouldnt actually receive any credit for only now admitting something that half the country already knew. But the fact that she did, to the January 6 committee, obviously makes her father look even worse than he already didand clearly, he knows it.

Unsurprisingly, Ivanka wasnt the only object of Trumps rage on Friday. He also sent out a series of truths attacking former attorney general Bill Barr, who called his election-fraud claims bullshit in deposition to the committee and insisted that Vice Chair Liz Cheneys claim that he supported the rioters hang Mike Pence chants false. I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, Hang Mike Pence. This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS! Trump ranted, according to Politico. In reality, Cheney didnt say that Trump uttered the words hang Mike Pence, but that he reportedly suggested to White House aides that the then V.P. deserved what the insurrectionists had in mind for him. Also, his denials would be a lot more convincing if he wasnt literally on tape defending the Hang Mike Pence calls.

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Jared Kushners former White House colleagues pan his January 6 hearing appearance

That probably has something to do with the former first son-in-law snivelingly telling committee investigators that he dismissed their threats to resign over Trumps election lies as whining. Per The New York Times:

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Donald Trump criticized the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack soon after the panel's first televised hearing, during which he was blamed for the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The former president shared his reaction to the televised proceedings on Truth Socialthe social network he created after he was banned from Twitter in the wake of the January 6 riot over fears he would use the platform to incite violence.

"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, and decided to use a documentary maker from Fake News ABC to spin only negative footage," Trump said. "Our Country is in such trouble!"

Trump was making reference to former ABC News television executive James Goldston, who was brought in by the panel to help them produce televised hearings that are being broadcast live on all major news networks except Fox News.

Before the hearing began, Trump attacked the House Committee investigating the attack while repeating his long dismissed claims of voter fraud in a series of Truth Social posts, including describing the panel as an "Unselect Committee of political Thugs."

During Thursday's proceedings, the committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, described January 6 as a "culmination of an attempted coup" that was Trump's "last stand" and his "most desperate chance" to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden following the 2020 Election.

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, one of only two Republicans on the panel, said the crowd of Trump's supporters, which included far-right extremists, stormed the Capitol on January 6 because they were "motivated" by the former president's false election fraud claims and assertion he was the rightful president.

"President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack," Cheney said.

Thursday's hearing was a mixture of speeches from the panel, multimedia presentations and live testimony from Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer who was severely injured in the riot, and Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who was filming members of the Proud Boys on January 6.

The panel said that the far-right group, whose members have been charged with sedition in connection to January 6, were partially inspired by Trump's "will be wild"' tweet telling his supporters to attend protests in Washington D.C. that day.

One of the most damning clips played during on Thursday was of the former president's eldest daughter, former White House adviser Ivanka Trump, admitting that she didn't share her father's view that the last election was rigged against him.

The footage showed Ivanka Trump saying she "accepted" former Attorney General William Barr's assessment that claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Election were "b******t."

Cheney also revealed that Trump reacted to reports of Capitol rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence" by suggesting they "have the right idea" and that his former vice president "deserves it."

In the run up to January 6, Trump repeatedly and falsely suggested that Pence could stop the certification of the 2020 Election results during his purely ceremonial role as presiding officer of the Senate.

Even as the attack was taking place, Trump tweeted that Pence "didn't have the courage to do what should have been done" with regards to stopping the election being certified.

"Donald Trumpthe President of the United Statesspurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy," Thompson said in his opening statement.

"Any legal jargon you hear about 'seditious conspiracy', 'obstruction of an official proceeding', 'conspiracy to defraud the United States' boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup. A brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the Government.

"Violence was no accident. It represented Trump's last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power."

Update 06/10/22 at 3:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated with background information throughout.

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Donald Trump Reacts to First Jan. 6 Hearing'Such Trouble'

It seems that the greatest sin an offspring of former President Donald Trump can commit is to tell the truth about him.

That happened on Thursday during the initial hearing of the select committee looking into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

And Trump, defensive and paranoid as ever, is happy to throwhis daughter Ivanka under the bus for her honesty.

Nice dad.

It began with a video clip of former Attorney General Bill Barr that was broadcast during the hearing. In it, Barr was asked about his decision to leave office and his reaction to Trump continuing to spread the Big Lie about election fraud.

Former President Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka

Barr said, 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 bull----. And I didnt want to be a part of it.

A little later the committee showed a video of Trumps daughter Ivanka, who served as an adviser to her father, in an interview about Jan. 6. She was asked what she thought of Barrs assessment of her fathers fraud claims.

She said she believed the attorney general.

Another view: How the right should respond to the Jan. 6 video

I respect Attorney General Barr. So, I accepted what he was saying, Ivankasaid.

Ooooo, Daddy Donald is having none of that.

As if we needed any more proof of how low the former president is willing to sink in order to satisfy his ego, this is it.

On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump wrote, 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!).

So, his handpicked attorney general was terrible and his daughter isa liar.

According to the committee a number of other members of Trumps inner White House circle will be offering testimony that backs up both Barr and Ivanka.

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Id guess Trump will attackeach one of them as well.

For now, however, its his own dear child who doesnt know what shes talking about according to Trump because she had long since checked out.

Well, if she hasnt already, Id guess Ivanka most likely will checkout of one notable upcoming event.

Fathers Day.

If I was the Donald, I wouldnt bother checking the mailbox for a card.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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Donald Trump achieved another first in US presidential history on Thursday night. He was, in front of millions of people, accused by a congressional panel of attempting to overthrow the US government.

January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, said Bennie Thompson, chair of the House of Representatives select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol. President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack, added his vice-chair, Liz Cheney.

The political and legal implications could be devastating, just as the Watergate hearings were for President Richard Nixon half a century ago. But today America, and its media, are bitterly divided, and Trump, who once boasted that he could shoot someone and not lose voters, has repeatedly shown that what does not kill him makes him stronger.

The former president wrote defiantly on his Truth Social platform: 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. Our Country is in such trouble!

Like a criminal trial, the first January 6 hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington clinically outlined the case that will be made against Trump with the help of vivid eyewitness testimony and breathtaking video footage. Although many of the details had previously emerged in media reports, it was nevertheless compelling to hear them woven together in an august setting on primetime television.

Cheney argued that Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power. He encouraged the insurrection, refused to call off the mob and was content for his own vice-president, Mike Pence, to be assassinated for refusing to overturn the election.

And, 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.

The words of Trumps inner circle, including Pence, were turned against him. There was a clip of former attorney general William Barr saying that Trumps claims of a stolen election were unfounded bullshit, then one of Trumps daughter and senior adviser Ivanka telling the committee: I respected attorney general Barr. I accepted what he was saying.

The sense of family betrayal presumably enraged Trump. It also demonstrated that trusted aides were advising him that he had lost the election fair and square. This could be used to build a criminal case that he pushed the Big Lie of voter fraud knowing it to be just that meaning that he made a deliberate effort to subvert democracy.

The January 6 committee, however, has no power to prosecute Trump or anyone else. That would be a decision for Merrick Garland, the attorney general, at the justice department, and fraught with risks in a polarised environment: Trump allies would doubtless cry foul and accuse him of a politically motivated witch-hunt.

Such a prospect might actually make it more likely that Trump run for president again in 2024 because he knows the justice department would be reluctant to go after an active candidate. He would seek to weaponise such a move while on the campaign trail, casting himself as the victim of a deep state conspiracy, just as he did with the Russia investigation.

If Trump does run, could he win again despite the mountain of damning evidence that now stands in the public record? No one is writing him off just yet. He remains the dominant force in the Republican party, where many continue to push his big lie, a point underlined by its leaderships protests that the hearings are an illegitimate, partisan show trial aimed at deflecting attention from Joe Bidens crises such as inflation and crime.

It is true that there are two Republicans on the January 6 committee, but both are outliers who have been censured by the party. Adam Kinzinger is not seeking re-elecction and Cheney knows her work could well cost her her seat in Wyoming, where a Trump-backed primary challenger is polling strongly against her.

Cheney said on Thursday: I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonour will remain.

Meanwhile Fox News, which has long had a marriage of convenience with Trump, did not even broadcast the hearing live. Instead host Tucker Carlson described it as propaganda from the ruling class and told viewers: They are lying and we are not going to help them do it.

It is possible that this and subsequent hearings will break through with a sliver of undecided voters in the middle who had not been paying attention to the drip feed of January 6 stories. But not even Democrats expect it to rescue them in Novembers midterm elections. History will remember Trumps plot against America but memory alone cannot guarantee democracy.

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The January 6 panel said Trump incited an attempted coup. Will it kill him or make him stronger? - The Guardian US

WASHINGTON Former President Donald J. Trump, long known for distancing himself from or tossing aside staff members who contradicted him while he was in the White House, discovered a new target on Friday: his elder daughter.

The morning after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol played recorded video testimony of his daughter, Ivanka Trump, at its prime-time public hearing, Mr. Trump used his social media website to separate himself from what she had said and to say she was checked out during the final days of his administration.

In the testimony, Ms. Trump said she was influenced by a Dec. 1, 2020, statement by William P. Barr, then the attorney general, that there was no widespread fraud that had altered the outcome of the election. She testified that she respected Mr. Barr and accepted what he was saying.

Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results, Mr. Trump wrote on his social media website, Truth Social, in one of eight messages he posted there in response to the hearing. 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!).

Ms. Trump was a senior adviser in the White House, and she continued to work in the administration until the end. Her colleagues have recalled her being among those urging White House staff members on election night to fight even as it became clear that her father would most likely lose. Her husband, Jared Kushner, who was also a senior adviser in the White House, attended several meetings about postelection strategy with a range of political and West Wing advisers, as well as lawyers like Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Pushing back on his daughters comments was only one way in which Mr. Trump assailed the hearing, the first in a series of sessions to be heldby the House committee this month.

He denied having responded approvingly to the Hang Mike Pence! chants bellowed about the vice president by some of the rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, an account shared during the hearing by Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and the panels vice chairwoman.

I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, Hang Mike Pence, Mr. Trump wrote on the social media site. This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!

Ms. Cheney did not say he had used those words, but she quoted testimony that Mr. Trump had responded to the chants by saying that maybe our supporters have the right idea and that Mr. Pence deserves it.

In another post on the site, Mr. Trump described the committee as a totally partisan, POLITICAL WITCH HUNT! And in two other posts, he attacked Mr. Barr, calling him a coward, weak and frightened, stupid and scared stiff of being impeached.

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