For the journalists covering Donald Trump, there was always Hope Hicks. Just one day earlier, Hicks copped to lying on Trump’s behalf.
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“I hope that she’ll come prepared to answer all of our questions”, the panel’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California said Monday.
Hicks, who is very close to the president, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, spent eight hours testifying before the House intel panel Tuesday. Hicks has not announced her future plans, and has said she’s not fond of Washington politics. “Priebus and Spicer were particularly unhappy”.
When she was appointed in August 2017, at 29 she was the youngest person to be given the role. Sometimes Hicks would even have Trump available on the line.
“I wish her best of luck”.
Whether Hicks’s departure had anything to do with that testimony is unclear-the White House seemed to suggest on Wednesday that she got another job.
Here are six things you may not know about Hicks. The Times also reported that Hicks had been contemplating stepping down “for several months”.
Hicks, who was Trump’s longest serving aide, will leave the White House within the next few weeks.
Some of those could be in the offing for Hicks, who has remained a mystery to many Americans despite her proximity to power and influential role.
Hicks advocated behind the scenes for Trump to be accessible to the press, both through interviews and other public appearances. Talk about how she entered the Trump orbit in the first place. During his time as communications director, Scaramucci had an expletive-riddden phone call with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza in which he criticized Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon. “I’m scrambling now.I’m going to have to find a new friend”. Sally Yates Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was sacked just hours after she announced the Justice Department would not defend Trump’s controversial executive order temporarily banning all refugees and travelers from certain countries. She had reportedly made a decision to leave the Trump administration in the week before before her interview with the House committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job. Instead, she urged other White House officials to put out a robust defense of Porter in the face of the allegations.
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Ms Hicks, who occupied the desk closest to the Oval Office in the West Wing, has been a central participant in or witness to almost every milestone and controversy of the Trump campaign and White House. And a closing tweet simply said, “WITCH HUNT!”
