Posted on 11/10/2017 9:04:15 AM PST by drewh
One of President Donald Trump's most loyal insiders is the next target in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's sights.
Hope Hicks, White House communications director, will be grilled by Mueller's team as early as next week, a source told Newsweek — and the questions will center on statements she helped produce about the campaign's contacts with Russian operatives during the 2016 election.
At issue is a statement provided to the media just days after the election, when Hicks flatly denied any campaign member conducted meetings with Russian representatives.
On thing is certain: Hicks's long established loyalty to Trump will certainly be tested.
Hicks, Trump's longest-serving political aide, was just 18-years-old when the future-president published one of his lesser-known works in 2006, titled Trump 101: The Way to Success.
A decade later, the former Ralph Lauren model is immersed in Trump's inner circle, working directly with Ivanka Trump on the first daughter's fashion company, before serving as a liaison for a multitude of the first family's business ventures—all the while, living out most of her adult life in a Trump-owned property in Manhattan. When Trump was planning to launch his campaign in 2015, he called Hicks into a meeting and said, "I'm thinking about running for president, and you're going to be my press secretary."
Hicks has rarely spoke to reporters on the record and did not respond to requests for comment on this story. Ty Cobb, the president's lawyer for the federal Russia probe, told Newsweek on Thursday the White House hopes to conclude interviews between the special counsel and current and former officials "before Thanksgiving or shortly thereafter."
"All I can say out of respect for the special counsel process and the privacy and dignity of our people is that the process continues to be one of cooperation," Cobb said.
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NewsWeak? Basically bankrupt.
It’s being telegraphed.
They plan to threaten her with prison so that she sings.
How strange. Regarding Hope Hicks in her tuxedo, I just told my wife two days ago “I don’t trust that woman.. She’s a turncoat”. Hmmm..
We have President Trump, a true independent working for the American people going up against truly entrench governmental oligarchy.
Nice tree.
I have a feeling Hope Hicks will hand Mueller his own balls on a silver platter and he’ll thank her for it.
Hope could not be guilty of anything even if she tried.
Exactly, I saw the source and laughed out loud.
Didn’t even bother to even read the fake news excerpt.
But I wonder? When did the powers that be in the MSM decide that Buzzfeed aka CNN should relinquish the reigning title of Fake News to Newsweek? Seems a lot of fake news is now coming from those morons recently.
Nbc
The more of Mueller’s questions they answer, the greater the chances someone innocent is going to get tripped up. And that’s exactly what Mueller is hoping for.
As in:
Q: Did you ever talk with a Russian official about the election?
A: No, never.
Q: But didn’t you talk politics with the Russian ambassador at that dinner party? We have witnesses who say you did.
A. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
Bingo! Caught in a “lie”. Federal crime.
Assumse he has something to use: i.e.,"raise the drawbridge".
Just because someone is a Russian doesn't mean they are a "Russian representative".
Off topic, that girl knows how to strike a pose for the camera!
I never liked Newsweek, but instead of being what was once considered a “respectable’ news source they have now turned into the worst and most biased of the radical left-wing blogs out there.
Mueller is now known to be a Clinton cutout like his buddy Comey.
How long do we let this disgusting gangster thug use his ill gotten power to terrorize the President’s family, friends and employees in pursuit of the power mad Clinton crime gang?
Pure Evil. This SOB did NOTHING like this to ANY member of the Obama “administration”, worked for a foreign criminal named Holder who inexplicably was approved to be the AG of the US, but now he’s OK to go after everyone who ever talked to Don Trump for any minor thing they might have done or he could concoct with a crooked view of the law?
Mueller and Weissman are the exact people that Jefferson wrote the Bill of Rights to protect against.
How strange. Regarding Hope Hicks in her tuxedo, I just told my wife two days ago “I don’t trust that woman.. She’s a turncoat”. Hmmm..
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Remind me to never count on you when the chips are down.
Whatever Mueller threatens, rest assured that Hope has been fully briefed by the best lawyers in the world, and she knows the POTUS will stand behind her with Pardon should that be necessary.
This is a bunch of show. Not even Mueller hopes to get anything from it.
“Bingo! Caught in a “lie”. Federal crime.”
Bingo! Pardon.
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