New details about Hope Hicks' White House departure
Deputy White House Communications Director Josh Raffel announced his resignation a day earlier.
But the once background figure in Trump's posse hit headlines in recent weeks over the resignation of her now ex-boyfriend White House aide Rob Porter amid domestic abuse claims by his former partners and, pertinently to the ongoing Russian Federation probe, the allegation that she promised the emails Donald Trump Jr. received offering dirt on Hillary Clinton would "never get out".
Hicks initially served as a press secretary within the White House, before taking on the role of communications director following a series of high-profile departures a year ago. Scaramucci lost the job less than two weeks after he had been hired, largely over a tirade against then-chief strategist Steve Bannon. "Priebus and Spicer were particularly unhappy".
Life at Trump's side was always complicated for Hicks, but her decision came at an unusually riotous time, after the Russian Federation investigations coaxed her into view throughout the fall and winter, and the destruction of her new relationship collided with the country's national security in the most public way, inviting questions about her personal and professional judgement. Sometimes Hicks would even have Trump available on the line. I mean, I don't know who they are.
Hicks had served as the press secretary for Trump's insurgent presidential campaign before taking on similar duties in the White House. "White lies", he said, "or as Melania calls them, vows".
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks announced Wednesday she is resigning.
According to Associated Press, Hicks had a seemingly untouchable role in the West Wing, often viewed more as a surrogate daughter than a staffer.
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Seth Meyers also visited Hicks' resignation briefly during his monologue Wednesday.
Three sources from both parties with knowledge of her testimony told CNN that she was talking about small matters - like telling people Trump was in a meeting when he wasn't. And according to a timeline provided by the reporter who broke the story, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Hicks spent a substantial portion of her tenure - perhaps as much as half of it - considering leaving.
Presidential interviews became less frequent after a few months. There was a noticeable change in approach after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May.
Although Hicks maintained an unusually low profile over the past three years, she recently attracted scrutiny after Special Counsel Robert Mueller escalated his probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation. "I'm scrambling now.I'm going to have to find a new friend".
President Trump praised Hicks for her outstanding work. Talk about how she entered the Trump orbit in the first place. Her involvement in the Rob Porter matter, wherein she helped draft a memo defending someone she was dating, may have been an indication that the personal strain of working in this White House simply isn't worth it.
The communication director is in charge of crafting the president's speeches. She added she wished Trump and his administration the "very best". "She's a familiar presence at his side in a place where he's uncomfortable, and she understands him more viscerally than others in the press shop who haven't known him as long or observed him up close the way she has since the winter of 2015".
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