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Former President Donald Trump once again blasted the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 after the panel asked his daughter, Ivanka Trump, to come in to be interviewed.
“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 that was published on 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,” the former president and potential 2024 GOP White House contender added.
“They are using whatever powers they have. They couldn’t care less. They are vicious people,” he added.
Sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also advisers to their presidential father during his term; they, along with their sister, are also being targeted by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, regarding their business dealings.
He noted that James’ probe is all driven by politics: “She campaigned on a whole issue of ‘I’ll get Trump. I’ll get Trump.’ And that’s all it was.”
As for his children, “They’ve done a great job. You know Ivanka very well, and you know the quality of her,” he told the Examiner. “For them to have to go through all this stuff is a disgrace.”
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He said the investigations create a model for an investigation of Hunter Biden, the president’s controversial son who has been linked to questionable financial deals, if the GOP regains control of Washington. “It’s a very bad precedent because it can happen the other way also,” he said.
The Jan. 6 committee has also obtained phone records related to Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality who is Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancee.
The panel said in a letter to Ivanka Trump 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 areas of interest.
The Jan. 6 committee has faced allegations of being little more than a Democrat-controlled vehicle to continue pursuing Trump.
In July, shortly after Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the formation of the panel, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a staunch Trump ally who she refused to seat along with four other GOP lawmakers named by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), blasted the Speaker for keeping him off.
“The real question is, and I’ve said this many times, why weren’t those guys who testified today and all the other Capitol Hill police who protect us and protect Capitol Hill, why weren’t they given more help?” he told Fox News in an interview after the panel held its first hearing, which featured testimony from four Capitol Police officers.
“Why wasn’t more help there that day? And the only person who can answer that question is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives,” he told host Bret Baier. “And I think she thought we were going to keep raising that question, and that’s why she didn’t put me on [the committee].”
“My hunch is because what happened all last summer [when] we saw Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats say that we should defund the police. We saw Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats say that rioters and looters who attacked police, destroyed small business, and hurt innocent civilians- they actually raised money to bail them out of jail,” he said. “So when that’s the background, it’s kind of tough to say, ‘we’re for defunding the police. But, oh, by the way, we want more police here to protect us on January 6th.”
