Yikes! Apparently Ivanka Trump was present in the Oval Office for a “pretty heated” phone call between her father and the former Vice President, with the details regarding the days before the insurrection becoming more and more interesting…. Here’s what we know:
As reported by The Independent, Tim O’Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, has recently suggested that the former president’s eldest daughter Ivanka had a “bad feeling” about pressure her father was reportedly putting on Mike Pence in the days leading up to January 6, 2021.
Clips of Ivanka Trump’s testimony were played at the public hearings regarding the Capitol riots. We’ve also heard from them, as Oliver O’Connell for The Independent writes, that Donald Trump was repeatedly told that his scheme to get former Vice President Pence to “send back electors to the states— in the hope of overturning the election result— was illegal.”
In a recent interview between MSNBC host Alex Witt and Mr. O’Brien, the author was asked, “Do you get a sense from her testimony that Ivanka had a bad feeling about January 6th, even before the rally at the ellipse?” O’Brien replied, “Absolutely.”
Don Jr., and Ivanka Trump were among those present in the Oval Office when Donald Trump had a ‘heated’ conversation with Mike Pence in which he called Pence a ‘wimp’ — and ‘the p word’ pic.twitter.com/Y4K06ELAmJ
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He continued, “We know from other accounts of what she did that day that she honoured the fact that Mike Pence was resisting Donald Trump’s pressure to decertify the electoral results on Jan 6 at the Capitol.” O’Brien explained, “And then she obviously was in the Oval Office with several other campaign advisers, including lawyers, who heard him swearing at Mike Pence, who heard him grow increasingly angry at Mike Pence, because Mike Pence wouldn’t do what Donald Trump wanted him to do, which was to break the law.”
O’Brien elaborated, “What is significant is what we have learned in the hearings thus far, is that Donald Trump at that point knew it was illegal.” The writer added, “[John] Eastman had told him it was illegal. They had also, there are other people in the White House who said that the plan was ‘nutty’. It was crazy. So it was not only lacking in visibility, it was illegal, and yet he continues to pressure Mike Pence, to break the law and he did so in front of a number of witnesses including his daughter.”
‘I got impeached twice and my poll numbers went up!’ — On Friday, Donald Trump claimed he never called Mike Pence a ‘wimp,’ but he also implied the former VP was ‘weak’ & has no ‘courage’ pic.twitter.com/3QoyY43sst
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 18, 2022
To make matters worse, Ivanka testified that she heard her father in a “pretty heated” phone conversation with the former VP. Photos have emerged of several members of the Trump family together in the Oval Office on the morning of January 6, just ahead of the rally on the Ellipse before the Capitol riot.
Members of staff close to the former president and his daughter — his “body man” Nick Luna, and her chief of staff, Julie Radford — also claim Mr. Trump called his vice president a “wimp” and a “p—y”.
In the weeks since the hearing, the former president denied calling Pence a wimp, before then implying that Pence didn’t have the courage to do what Trump wanted.
Last week, at a conference in Nashville, TN held by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Trump said to the crowd, “I never called Mike Pence a wimp.” Trump continued, “I never called him a wimp. Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be, frankly, historic.” Mhmm….
