Review: Ivanka Trump’s January 6th Testimony.

So, last night I tried to read through the 231 pages of testimony that Ivanka Trump gave to the January 6th Select Committee on April 5, but I gave up somewhere around the 100th page because how many times can you read that someone says “I don’t recall” when asked a question about an event in which that individual was involved?

I’m referring here to two meetings in the Oval Office on January 6th, the first meeting prior to Trump making his speech at the Ellipse, the second meeting after the riot started and Trump was drafting the remarks which told the rioters to ‘go home,’ a statement which ended with these words: “So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel but go home and go home in peace.”

Try as she might, Ivanka Trump just couldn’t recall much of what happened that day, in particular how she felt about whether her father was upset about what was going on.

Ivanka’s memory lapses weren’t, of course, intentional. They were due to the role she played at the White House, which was “to run the Office of Economic Initiatives, focused on working-family policies, expanding access to paid leave and affordable childcare, workforce development initiatives and job training programs, initiatives relating to…