Ivanka Trump spent hours repeatedly trying to convince her father to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol on January 6, book claims
Ivanka Trump tried for hours to convince then President Donald Trump to order his supporters to stop rioting at the Capitol Building on January 6, a new book says.
Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker captured scenes from January 6 in their forthcoming book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year, which arrives in book stores Tuesday.
'I'm going down to my dad. This has to stop,' Ivanka Trump reportedly told her aides after seeing that a massive crowd of his supporters had breached the Capitol, according to an excerpt from Business Insider.
Former President Donald Trump (left) and daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump (right) are photographed returning to the White House on January 4, two days before the MAGA riot
A new book says that once Ivanka Trump saw images of her father's supporters breaching the Capitol on January 6 she marched downstairs to the Oval Office to convince him to tell them to stop
Ivanka Trump is photographed leaving her Washington, D.C. home on January 6, the day of the attempted insurrection
The new book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year, details the events of January 6
The first daughter and adviser to the president left her second floor West Wing office and headed toward the Oval.
She then spent 'several hours walking back and forth' between the two offices, trying to convince her dad to call off the MAGA assault.
A number of people in the president's orbit asked Ivanka Trump to tell her father to quell the crowd.
Mark Meadows, who was serving as White House chief of staff, would summon Ivanka Trump throughout the day.
'I need you to come back down here,' Meadows said. 'We've got to get this under control.'
Meadows would then clear out the Oval.
'I only want Ivanka, myself and the president in here,' he said, according to the authors.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's top allies on Capitol Hill, called Ivanka Trump on January 6.
'You need to tell him to tell these people to leave,' Graham said.
Ivanka Trump responded with a, 'We're working on it.'
The first daughter was described to the authors by one White House adviser as 'like a stable pony.'
'When the racehorse gets too agitated, you bring the stable pony in to calm him down,' the adviser said.
On Twitter that day, Ivanka Trump tried to stop the riot herself.
'American Patriots - any security breach or disrespect to our law enforcement is unacceptable,' she wrote. 'The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful.'
When a CNN reporter questioned her use of 'patriots,' she responded, 'No. Peaceful protest is patriotic.'
'Violence is unacceptable and must be condemned in the strongest terms,' she said.
It took more than 24 hours after the riot for the president to release a recorded statement calling for 'healing and reconciliation.'
While he was briefly allowed back on Twitter he called for 'peace' and 'unity' but took no blame for whipping up the MAGA mob that stormed the Capitol, leaving five dead in the riot's immediate aftermath.
Aides at the time described him as a 'total monster' and 'mad King George.'
The next day Trump announced he would break precedent and skip President Joe Biden's January 20 inauguration ceremony.
'To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,' he declared.
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