![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Page_600_Image_%28Final_Report_of_the_Select_Committee_to_Investigate_the_January_6th_Attack_on_the_United_States_Capitol%2C_22_December_2022%29.jpg/220px-Page_600_Image_%28Final_Report_of_the_Select_Committee_to_Investigate_the_January_6th_Attack_on_the_United_States_Capitol%2C_22_December_2022%29.jpg)
(Photo by House Creative Services)
“[s]he had just had a tough conversation.”[215] Radford, Ivanka Trump’s Chief of Staff, saw that she was “[v]isibly upset” but continued going “down there when people were asking her to be down there and trying to get action taken.”[216]
Radford told the Select Committee that Ivanka Trump believed that “[s]omething should be said or put out that was even stronger.”[217]
Hutchinson, too, recalled Ivanka Trump dropping by Meadows’s office alongside Cipollone and talking about trying to convince her father to say something “more direct than he had wanted to at that time and throughout the afternoon.”[218]
“I remember her saying at various points,” Hutchinson said, “she wanted her dad to send them home. She wanted her dad to tell them to go home peacefully, and she wanted to include language that he necessarily wasn’t on board with at the time.”[219]
7.9 “THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO STOP THIS ASAP”
President Trump’s 2:38 p.m. tweet did not condemn the violence at the Capitol. It did not tell rioters to leave the building.