Ivanka repeatedly asked Trump to stop violence on January 6: Cheney

Former US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, repeatedly asked her father to intervene to stop the violence by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).  

Cheney said on Sunday that the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has received testimony that Ivanka at least twice asked Trump to “please stop this violence.”

"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 said.

"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," said Cheney, who voted to impeach the former president last year.

"We know, as you know well, that the briefing room at the White House is just a mere few steps from the Oval Office. The president could have at any moment, walked those very few steps into the briefing room, gone on live television, and told his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol to stop," she added.

US lawmakers say political environment on Capitol Hill is 'toxic'

Two members of the US Congress have described the atmosphere on Capitol Hill as "toxic," between the Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.

Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.

Trump has been casting doubt on the outcome of his loss by insisting it was the result of fraud. He has said that the 2020 presidential election was “the greatest Election Hoax in history.”

Trump’s claims have significantly delegitimatized the democratic process in the United States. A recent poll has found that at least 50 percent of Republican voters surveyed believe their vote will not be counted accurately the next time they cast a ballot.

Trump is ‘at war with the rule of law’

In her interview on Sunday, Cheney also accused Trump of being "at war with the rule of law."

"I think that that we're in a situation where people have got to understand the danger of President Trump and the danger that he posed on that day," she said.

"This is a man who has demonstrated that he is at war with the rule of law," she added. "He's demonstrated that he's willing to blow through every guardrail of democracy, and he can never be anywhere near the Oval Office again."

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