In what former President Donald Trump will likely take as a massive betrayal of loyalty, sources are now saying his own son-in-law, Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner, is set to make a voluntary appearance before the House Select Committee that is currently investigating the infamous January 6th Capitol riot and, more specifically, Donald Trump’s role in it, according to a breaking new report from ABC News. The report notes that several sources with knowledge on the matter claim Kushner, who once served as a senior West Wing aide during his father-in-law’s administration, could make his appearance before the panel as early as Thursday of this week.
Sources note that Kushner plans to appear virtually before the House Select Committee, but ABC News does note that the appearance could potentially be postponed or delayed throughout the week.
We already know that Ivanka’s husband was allegedly on his way back to Washington D.C., from Saudi Arabia where he was working to help negotiate an end to a rift in the Persian Gulf when his father-in-law’s supporters infamously and violently sieged the United States Capitol building as Congress and the Vice President was inside, working to certify the results of the 2020 election’s Electoral College votes, in Joe Biden’s favor. Kushner allegedly did not return to the White House once he landed back in Washington.
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote in his recent book, “Betrayal,” that Kushner told a GOP lawmaker one day after the infamous riot, that he avoided the Trump White House upon his return to the States on January 6th, because he felt he would have gotten into a “fight” with his father-in-law.
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Kushner’s wife, Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka was in fact at the White House that day, though, and has been repeatedly pegged as one of the several members of Trump’s inner circle who desperately tried to convince the then-president to call an end to the violent attack being perpetrated by his followers. In recent weeks, the House panel has reportedly been in negotiations with Ivanka over whether or not she will voluntarily cooperate with the probe and provide her testimony without a subpoena.
It seems, as it currently stands, that won’t be necessary for her husband — and we can only imagine the fit of rage that will send Trump into behind closed doors.
Read the full report from ABC News here.
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