Former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith to testify before a federal grand jury about Trump’s attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election and his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC that the subpoenas show that Smith is “not messing around.” Litman predicted that Smith targeting his eldest daughter will “enrage” the former president.
“Basically, he puts her in a chair and says, ‘inculpate your father, please,’ and she’s legally obligated to do it,” Litman said. “She’ll squirm but there’ll be certain events and pieces of testimony she has to give up. She can try to claim executive privilege. The courts have made quick work of that and they would again with her.”
NBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said the subpoena shows Smith is moving at “light speed” in his investigations. In just three months, Kirschner noted, Smith has already subpoenaed Pence, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump’s criminal defense attorneys. “And now he’s subpoenaed Trump’s daughter and son-in-law.”
“Why is it a big deal?” he said in a video, “because Donald Trump’s own daughter is going to present sharply incriminating testimony proving that her father was waging a pressure campaign against his own vice president trying to get him to join Trump’s conspiracy trying to get him to commit a number of federal felonies.”
Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal predicted that Ivanka Trump would “resist” the subpoena. “That’s the Trump family motto,” he told MSNBC. “They’re more scared of telling the truth under oath than a vampire is of garlic.”
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