Ex-Trump aide Hicks to be the first star witness for House committee

Reuters ^ | 06-18-19 | David Morgan

[Monrose72]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, becomes on Wednesday the first member of his inner circle to testify to the congressional panel leading a probe into possible obstruction of justice by Trump.Democrats who control the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee believe Hicks can provide important insights into troubling chapters of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and Trump’s efforts to interfere with the investigation. “She’s our first fact witness,” said Jamie Raskin, a Democratic lawmaker on the committee. “Having somebody talking about what happened from a personal perspective will be a dramatic debut for the committee.”

[LeonardFMason]

Now there you go making me laugh!

FR never fails to entertain and inform.

God bless President Trump and give him help tonight.

[LIConFem]

Amen! ;o)

[hotsteppa]

Do you even know what she has to say? She may just go babble to them. Your taking a spin writeup from the MSM to call the lovely Hope Hicks names? Cmon man. trump has always spoken highly of her.

[LIConFem]

First, I don't watch, listen to or read anything from the MSM, so the idea that I'm somehow borrowing their talking points doesn't hold water. And POTUS also spoke very highly of Mattis, Kelly and Sessions, et al, and look how they and others from his inner circle treated him.

Now, as it turns out, Ms. Hicks kept her mouth shut in today's hearing, so my skepticism of her was unfounded -- and I'm very happy to have been wrong about her so far.