An Associated Press story about the House January 6th Committee seeking an interview with Ivanka Trump includes a previously unreported detail about the Donald watching it on TV in the White House as it happened: That he kept hitting the rewind button on his DVR and was confused as to why his staff weren’t as excited as he was by it. “Look at all these people fighting for me,” he told them, per former Melania Trump Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham.
“Is someone getting to potus? He has to tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,” Alyssa Farrah, a former White House communications official, texted Mark Meadows aide Ben Williamson around the same time. “I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first video. It’s completely insane,” Williamson replied.