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'This has to stop': Ivanka Trump repeatedly tried to convince Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol on January 6, book says

Ivanka Trump repeatedly tried to sway her father and then-boss, President Donald Trump, to tell his supporters storming the Capitol on January 6 to leave the complex, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book by Washington Post journalists Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker published in the outlet on Thursday.

The authors wrote that Ivanka, then Trump's senior advisor, left her second-floor office in the White House after she saw on TV that a mob breached the Capitol. She wanted to find Trump and convince him to speak forcefully against the violence, the book says.

"I'm going down to my dad. This has to stop," she reportedly told her aides.

What ensued was Ivanka spending "several hours walking back and forth" to the Oval Office, trying to convince Trump to order his supporters to stand down, per the book.

At times, Trump's then-chief of staff Mark Meadows would call Ivanka to come downstairs to get through to Trump, the book says.

"I need you to come back down here," Meadows reportedly told her. "We've got to get this under control."

Meadows would direct other Trump aides to step out of the room, saying: "I only want Ivanka, myself and the president in here," the authors wrote.

One White House advisor said that "Ivanka was described to me like a stable pony," the book says. "When the racehorse gets too agitated, you bring the stable pony in to calm him down," the person reportedly said.

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Trump's ally, had also called Ivanka on her cellphone "numerous times" before she answered, the book says.

"You need to tell [Trump] to tell these people to leave," Graham reportedly said.

"We're working on it," Ivanka responded, according to the book.

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