Former President Donald Trump believes that his children are being targeted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 commission and the New York attorney general to deflect attention from President Joe Biden’s failings.
“It’s a very unfair situation for my children. Very, very unfair,” he told Secrets in a telephone call.
The Jan. 6 commission wants his children to appear and is seeking records from them as it stitches a theory that the White House mapped the Capitol riots. Ivanka Trump held a counselor’s position inside the White House. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were outside advisers to the White House political team and their father.
“They are using whatever powers they have. They couldn’t care less. They are vicious people,” Trump said of the panel.
He suggested that the commission investigation is a smokescreen to cover for Biden’s missteps. “It’s a disgrace, what’s going on. They’re using these things to try and get people’s minds off how incompetently our country is being run. And they don’t care. They’ll go after children,” Donald Trump said.
The three are also being targeted in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation of Trump’s properties. The former president said that the investigation is politically driven. “She campaigned on a whole issue of ‘I’ll get Trump. I’ll get Trump.’ And that’s all it was,” he said.
He said the investigations create a model for an investigation of Hunter Biden, the president’s controversial son who has been linked to questionable financial deals, if the GOP regains control of Washington. “It’s a very bad precedent because it can happen the other way also,” he said.
During his administration, Trump relied on his children more than any recent president. Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner had offices near the Oval Office, and both were given key jobs by Trump.
“They’ve done a great job,” he said. “You know Ivanka very well, and you know the quality of her,” he added. “For them to have to go through all this stuff is a disgrace.”
