It is difficult to conceive of Donald Trump knowing something without sharing it with his daughter. God knows what he’s “shared” on national television, we imagine there was a lot more talk behind the scenes. The rumor was always that Ivanka was Trump’s real wife and that Hope Hicks was always his real daughter. We are going to take that figuratively and not physically, and let’s forget the creepy stuff for a moment and concentrate on Ivanka the advisor and the bond they shared.

We can guess  – but it would only be a guess – that there would be stuff that Trump would keep from Ivanka, if for no other reason than to protect her. That doesn’t mean that she wouldn’t pick up on it, and it doesn’t mean that Kushner wouldn’t tell her. Say whatever one likes about the Jarvanka couple, but Kush does seem genuinely in love with Ivanka. He might tell her anything.

For the purposes of this article, let’s presume something that hasn’t been definitively proven yet, though there is far more evidence out there than most people know. But let’s presume that the goal in the entire January 6th operation was to remove Mike Pence from the operation, not to take his life (dear Lord we hope not) but to just hold him for 12 hours so that he could not perform his constitutional duty. They might have time to threaten him, remember – Trump’s a big fan of Putin and cares about no one but himself. Before anyone is tempted to wave away the possibility as ridiculous, recall that Pence didn’t trust the Secret Service to take him out of the Capitol because he didn’t know the driver. Pence sensed something was wrong, we should sense it too.

Knowing all of that, it is interesting that two books now have quoted Ivanka saying just prior to Trump’s speech, while he was pressuring Mike Pence, that she fundamentally objected to what was happening: Rawstory brings us the scene from “I Alone Can Fix It,” by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The scene was the White House, shortly before Pence left home to go to his duties in the senate. Trump was on the phone berating Pence.

Ivanka “had a hard time listening to her father badger the vice president to do something she knew was not possible.

“Mike Pence is a good man,” she said to Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, the vice president’s national security adviser.

“I know that,” he told her. “Let this ride. Take a deep breath. We’ll come back at it.”

Now maybe we’re stretching this a bit here but do remember, enough was “out” and around that Mike Pence didn’t trust the Secret Service, that tells us something, that tells us that there were leaks and distrust.

Ivanka had heard her dad badger good men and women on the phone all her life. She had to be immune to just words, right?

No, they were not “just words.” Ivanka had been suspicious of what Rudy and his crew (Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, all those that fly in the same flock

“Ivanka Trump did not agree and was upset about what attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and others had been advising her father,” the excerpt published at the Washington Post said.

“At one point that morning, she said:‘This is not right. It’s not right.'”

We are going WAY out on a limb, but Ivanka wasn’t speaking about any one specific thing except the presence of Rudy, who might’ve represented the rest of the posse.

We wonder what Ivanka knew. “This is not right!” and “Mike Pence is a good man!” Could be related. If the plan was to remove Pence from the scene (And many people believe that was the framework of January 6th, but it is not proven), then wouldn’t this be a logical retort by Ivanka, nearly certain it wouldn’t work, and likely worried about the long term damage?

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