"It's a very unfair situation for my children. Very, very unfair," Donald Trump told The Washington Examiner in an interview for an op-ed 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. And they don't care. They'll go after children," Donald Trump announced.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 events on Thursday requested that Ivanka Trump speak to lawmakers, stating in a letter that they would like to discuss conversations she had witnessed or participated in relating to "the President's plan to obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes," among other matters of interest.
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Throughout her father's presidency, Ivanka Trump worked as an advisor to the President, along with her husband, Jared Kushner.
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The Committee has subpoenaed and obtained phone records associated with Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was formerly an advisor to the elder Trump and fiancée to Donald Trump Jr.
Trump told the Examiner that the Committee was overreaching.
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"They are using whatever powers they have. They couldn't care less. They are vicious people," he stated.
The Committee announced Ivanka Trump's actions as the riot was underway were a "key focus" of the probe, and that she seemed to have direct knowledge of her father's effort to persuade the-US Vice President Mike Pence to stop the counting of electoral votes.
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"As January 6 approached, President Trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade vice president Pence to participate in his plan," Thompson wrote. "One of the president's discussions with the vice president occurred by phone on the morning of January 6. You were present in the Oval Office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation."
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The panel said in a statement it was also seeking information from Ivanka Trump about concerns voiced by White House lawyers, lawmakers, and Pence aides about plans to pressure the vice president to overturn the election.
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"The Committee would like to discuss any other conversations you may have witnessed or participated in regarding the president's plan to obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes," Thompson wrote.
Thompson and his deputy, Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, hailed the decision as a "victory for the rule of law and American democracy."
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U.S. President Joe Biden waived executive privilege on the Trump records so they could be handed over to the committee, and the appeals court decided that "the right of a former President certainly enjoys no greater weight than that of the incumbent."
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