Following the House Select Committee’s request for Ivanka Trump’s testimony about her knowledge of her father’s actions leading up to, and during the Jan 6 insurrection, the former first daughter finds herself in an impossible position as she also faces threats from her father, according to Mary Trump, niece of the former president.
Appearing for an interview on MSNBC, Mary Trump suggested Ivanka Trump has intimate knowledge of what was happening at the White House on the day of the insurrection and likely fears retaliation from her father if she told the truth to House investigators, according to Raw Story.
“I think what’s probably happening with my cousins and Donald is they’re trying to make the calculation of what is in their best interests Donald isn’t playing the card that she’s his child to protect her. He’s doing that to protect himself because he knows she may, indeed, have potentially damning information,” Mary Trump said before adding: “She’s making the same calculation; what will help her in the long run because she must understand that, as a government employee, as somebody who is at least involved by association, someone who was there that day and wasn’t taking any direct action to stop what was going on, at least not publicly, she knows she has to come down on the right side of things or she’ll continue to stay her father’s ally and have to see how that plays out.”
“She’s in a very bad situation because she must understand that, if Donald feels it’s necessary, he will stop protecting her,” Mary Trump concluded.
Watch the interview below from MSNBC:
