According to yet another new tell-all book, people in the Trump White House believe that Donald’s eldest daughter Ivanka was the voice of reason on that fateful day in January when her father’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol building in an effort to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes in favor of President Joe Biden.
Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker cover this in their new book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, offering a moment by moment glimpse inside the Trump White House as virtually every person the now-ex-president came across urged him to put a stop to his supporters’ attack on the Capitol.
Leonnig and Rucker describe President Trump as being glued to the TV screen as he watched his rabid base tear apart the very seams of this nation’s democracy, forcing their way into the Capitol building in his name, wielding makeshift weapons, tearing apart offices, and attacking the police. According to the book, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy phoned Donald Trump at one point, begging him to make it stop. Trump ridiculously claimed that the attackers were Antifa, rather than his own supporters, something McCarthy denied.
Multiple other Republicans reportedly blew Trump’s phone up, trying to get through to the president as a voice of reason and urge him to put a stop to the riot. However, after McCarthy’s call, Trump allegedly refused to answer any more calls. Even Kellyanne Conway reportedly told the White House to tell Trump that this was not something he could simply tweet away, that he had to actually go to the Capitol building and make his people stop.
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But it seems the only thing that even remotely worked with the then-president, was his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows desperately begging Donald’s eldest daughter Ivanka to step in and help prod her father into making the attack stop.
“She spent several hours walking back and forth to the Oval trying to persuade the president to be stronger in telling his supporters he stood with law enforcement and ordering them to disperse,” the book reads.
However, every time it was starting to seem as though Ivanka was making some progress with her father, Meadows would reportedly call her back into the Oval Office.
“I need you to come back down here,” Meadows reportedly told the First Daughter. “We’ve got to get this under control.” Meadows allegedly cleared the room, saying, “I only want Ivanka, myself, and the president in here.”
“This cycle repeated itself several times that afternoon,” the book explains.
One Trump aide told the reporters, “Ivanka was described to me like a stable pony. When the racehorse gets too agitated, you bring the stable pony in to calm him down.”
You can read an excerpt of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year from the Washington Post here.
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