Ivanka Trump has repeatedly implored her father, then-President Donald Trump, to dismiss his claims that election fraud cost him the 2020 election as he watched the news of the deadly January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. according to an upcoming book.
The associate editor of the Washington Post, Bob Woodward, and reporter Robert Costa, wrote in their book, “Danger,” on Sept. 21 that the first daughter of the time told President No. 45 three times that she would leave. go that thing “and” let it go, “according to a CNN report. Trump’s response is not mentioned in the report.
The book also relates that retired General Keith Kellogg, the national security adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence, urged the president to “tweet” to calm the crowd of Trump supporters currently threatening the vice president and members of the Congress.
“You really should do a tweet,” Kellogg told Trump, according to Woodward and Costa. “You need to get a tweet out very quickly, help control the crowd up there. This is out of control. They won’t be able to control it. Sir, they’re not ready for that. Once a crowd starts spinning like that, you’ve lost it.” .
According to the authors, the president responded by saying “Yes,” then “blinked and continued to watch television.”
Hours earlier, Trump had fired his supporters at a “Stop the Steal” rally in front of the White House.
“We will never concede,” he promised, adding, “We will not concede when there is theft.”
Trump then asked Pence to reject the election results when he chaired the congressional count later that day, and told the crowd, “I hope Mike does things right. I hope. I hope. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. “
As the chaos unfolded, Trump sent a couple of tweets that did not condemn the riots.
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred victory of electoral defeats is so ceremoniously and cruelly stripped of great patriots who have been mistreated and unjustly for so long,” it read. “Go home with love and peace. Remember this day forever! “
The other said, “Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what should be done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states the ability to certify a set of corrected facts, not fraudulent or inaccurate ones. which were asked to certify in advance. US demands the truth! ”
These posts, along with a video in which Trump told his followers to “come home” and loved them, were suppressed shortly after Twitter permanently banned Trump from the social media platform.
Contrary to the wishes reported by his daughter, Trump has maintained his baseless claims that his failed re-election bid was due to fraud. The same alarm has also sounded, without evidence, over other elections, most recently the California government record on Tuesday.
“Does anyone really think the California withdrawal election isn’t ready?” he asked in a statement Monday. “Millions and millions of email votes will make this a giant election scam more, not different, but less brazen, than the 2020 election scam!”