Former President Donald Trump slammed the House committee investigating the Capitol riot for requesting that his daughter and former senior adviser Ivanka Trump cooperate with the probe, accusing lawmakers of going after “children.”
“It’s a very unfair situation for my children. Very, very unfair,” Donald Trump told the Washington Examiner in an interview for an opinion piece published Friday.
“It’s a disgrace, what’s going on. They’re using these things to try and get people’s minds off how incompetently our country is being run,” he continued. “And they don’t care. They’ll go after children.”
Ivanka Trump is not a child. She is, in fact, a 40-year-old adult woman with children of her own.
Earlier this month, the committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), told ABC News that the committee has “firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask [Trump] to please stop this violence.” On the day of the riot, Ivanka Trump released a statement saying: “The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful.”
The committee appears to be closing on the former president’s family and close allies, leading to stronger backlash from the previous occupant of the White House. The panel has subpoenaed communications from his son Eric Trump, who spoke at the rally that preceded the riot. Committee members have also subpoenaed Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée to Donald Trump Jr., who served as an advisor to the elder Trump.