Jan. 6 Committee Confirms Ivanka Asked Trump To 'Stop This Violence' During Riot

A House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, said that Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, asked him to intervene as a mob of his supporters stormed the building at the time.

House select committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told ABC News on Sunday that Trump had refused to take steps to stop the violence unfolding at the Capitol, adding that he was watching the attack on television from the Oval Office as it occurred.

"The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred. We know, as you know well, that the briefing room at the White House is just a mere few steps from the Oval Office," Cheney said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

The Republican lawmaker also revealed that the panel has firsthand testimony that Ivanka asked her father to take steps to “do something” to stop the riot.

"We know his daughter -- we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to 'please stop this violence,'" Cheney added.

Ivanka was not the only Trump family member who asked the then-president to quell the violence. In mid-December, the House select committee also revealed a series of text messages from Donald Jr, the former president’s eldest son, where he begged his father to condemn the riot.

“We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand,” one of the text messages Don Jr. sent then-chief of staff Mark Meadows read.

During the Capitol riot, Trump released a one-minute video on social media where he promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election while encouraging his supporters who attacked the federal building to “go home in peace.”

However, the former president released a tweet soon after claiming the riot occurred because his “landslide election victory” was “stripped away,” echoing false claims that the election was stolen from him.

Twitter later took down both messages and banned Trump on its platform, citing the “risk of further incitement of violence” as the reason.

The House select committee’s latest comments come just days before the one-year anniversary of the attack. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to speak Thursday to mark the Jan. 6 attack, according to The Hill.