Ivanka Trump Testifies Before U.S. Capitol Riot Committee – Reuters

White House senior advisor Ivanka Trump leads a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo

WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka testified on Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, answering questions for several hours, the panel’s chairman said.

“She’s answering questions. I mean, you know, not in a broad, chatty term, but she’s answering questions,” Representative Bennie Thompson, the panel’s Democratic chairman, said on CNN.

Thompson said her testimony began Tuesday morning and was still ongoing by mid-afternoon.

Asked if he would describe Ivanka Trump as cooperating, Thompson told CNN, “She came in on her own, that has obviously significant value. We did not have to subpoena.”

Her husband, Jared Kushner, spoke to the Select Committee last week, as the investigation of the attack on the Capitol expands to include close relatives of the former president.

Like her husband, Ivanka Trump met with the committee virtually.

Ivanka Trump and her husband both served as advisers in the Trump White House. Ivanka Trump spent much of the day with her father on Jan. 6, 2021.

Aides to the Trump family did not respond to a request for comment.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle Editing by Marguerita Choy

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