Of the many “tell-all” books coming out this summer, the most dependable, by far, is the book we’ve cited many times,  “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”.

Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig are Washington Post reporters with sources deep inside the catacombs and won’t be as willing to automatically buy people’s own ass-saving revisionist history. They are the most likely to check anyone’s assertions versus what other people remember about them, too.

Thus it is that we can likely trust the reporting that Ivanka didn’t want any of this, and by “this,” we mean everything after the electoral college and the January 6th rally.

She especially didn’t like Rudy Giuliani saying anything to her father, nor did she like that her dad was pressuring Mike Pence, who she seemed to see as a victim.

But instead of crowning Ivanka as the princess of peace, we remain wary and chalk a lot of this up to her being the one most able to see the future, that it wouldn’t work, and he’d be buried by history.

After Trump told Pence that Pence didn’t have the courage to make the hard decision, Ivanka felt terrible:

“You don’t have the courage to make a hard decision,” he told Pence.

Ivanka Trump, standing next to Kellogg near a grandfather clock in the back of the room, 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 quietly to Kellogg, the vice president’s national security adviser who was close to Trump.

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

There are a lot of people who would disagree about Ivanka’s overall sense that Pence was a good man. But on that day, we agree, he was actually the best man.

She also couldn’t stand Giuliani:

Ivanka Trump did not agree and was upset about what attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and others had been advising her father. At one point that morning, she said: “This is not right. It’s not right.”

With just about any other book, written by any other authors, we’d call BS on that and say that Ivanka was the sole source and was simply trying to polish her image post-presidency. But there’s simply no way that two experienced WaPo reporters would risk their credibility over a detail like that. They would check with others about whether anyone heard Ivanka say it.

And then the big one. White House staff resented the hell out of Ivanka even showing up:

Ivanka Trump was in the tent, too, tending to her father. Melania Trump had chosen not to attend the “Save America” rally, telling aides that she was not sure it was a good idea for her to participate. The first lady was busy that morning overseeing a scheduled photo shoot of rugs and other decor in the White House residence. Yet the first daughter, who typically was just as careful as the first lady about when and where she appeared in public, attended, which surprised White House officials.

“You, who curates your image, you, who looks down on many of the rest of us, what are you doing there? Honestly,” a Trump adviser later remarked.

Well, for one day – only one – Ivanka did have the right to look down on the White House advisers advocating for a shot at a coup. That doesn’t excuse the other five years, but, like Pence, it sounds like she was right for one day of her life.

Better than nothing.

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