Prime Time January 6 Hearing: Here's What Ivanka Trump Testified That Irked Donald Trump

The first prime time January 6 hearing has reached nearly 19 million television viewers, which is considered to be a "quantifiable success" for the Democratic-led team of lawmakers probing the investigation of the Capitol riot.

Washington Post reported that ABC, CBS, and NBC cleared their popular prime-time entertainment schedules to broadcast the January 6 hearing without commercial interruption.

One of the testimonies that made the headlines include Ivanka Trump's, wherein she noted that she told investigators she did not believe the election was stolen.

Ivanka appeared in a video deposition, shown to the public for the first time during the first hearing of the House panel, according to The Guardian report.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter said that her perspective changed after hearing that Bill Barr had explained to her father several times that he had lost the election. Ivanka told congressional investigators that he respected Barr, so she accepted what he was saying.

Barr was Trump's attorney general for most of 2020 until he resigned that December.

The former Trump attorney general was saying that the Justice Department had discovered no significant fraud to support Trump's claim, which he continues to make until now.

The January 6 committee also showed a video of Barr's appearance before a panel investigator, wherein he called his former boss' fraud claims "bullshit." Barr added that he told the president at the time that there was "zero basis" for his allegations that the election was rigged against him.

Donald Trump on Ivanka Trump's Testimony

Donald Trump reacted to his daughter's testimony by writing on his social media website, Trump Social. He wrote that Ivanka was not "involved in looking at, or studying, Election results," according to a New York Times report.

Trump went on to say that Ivanka had "long since checked out" and was in his opinion, only trying to be respectful to Barr and his position as Attorney General.

Ivanka was a senior adviser in the White House and continued to work in the administration until the end.

Trump had also denied having responded approvingly to the "Hang Mike Pence" chants bellowed about the vice president by some of the rioters on January 6.

The former president on his social media app that he never said or "even thought of saying, 'Hang Mike Pence.'"

Prime Time January 6 Hearing

ABC drew the biggest audience that watched the January 6 hearing, earning around 4.9 million viewers. It was followed by MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.

Some of the footage shown during the hearing include one rioter reading a Trump tweet on a megaphone for the other rioters to hear.

The said tweet shows Trump criticizing Pence for announcing that he would not overturn the results of the 2020 election, as reported by CNN politics.

The committee also showed testimony from White House officials that the former president did not want the U.S. Capitol attack to stop, angrily resisting his own advisers who were urging him to call off rioters.

U..S Capitol Police officer Caroline Edward was also the first witness to testify, saying that she was called on a lot of things.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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