I am not sure how much damn testimony the J6 Committee has to elicit from der Gropinfuhrer’s staff, lawyers and assorted funkies to propel the DOJ off its duff and into indictment mode, but of all the people who have spoken to the committee none would have been… er… closer to the Orangeutan than his senior advisor and top crush Hope Hicks, who is speaking to them as I type…
“WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, who served as a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, is interviewing with the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday, a source familiar told NBC News.
The Jan. 6 committee declined to provide a comment or any additional details. Hicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hicks served in multiple senior roles in Trump’s White House for much of his presidency. She left the White House six days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, on Jan. 12, after serving as a counselor to the president. She had previously served as White House communications director as well as director of strategic communications. Prior to her stints at the White House, Hicks worked for Trump’s presidential campaign, the Trump Organization and Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand.
Hicks was one of Trump’s closest confidantes in his White House and previously refused to answer questions about working for the president when she testified before lawmakers behind closed doors in 2019.“
Expect the ketchup bottles in Bedminster to catch some serious hell when the drumpfmonster gets wind of this, he probably thought she was not going to drop dimes on him after all this time has passed and the committee so soon to wrap up.
Lisa Rubin, a legal analyst on Rachel Maddox’s staff has some insight as to what the committee might want to talk to Hicks about:
But what I forgot is that The Trump Whisperer came back to the White House in the last months of 2020. And that during that time, in addition to her notoriously getting COVID weeks before the election, she joined the likes of Bill Barr in flatly telling Trump he lost. 2/
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) October 25, 2022
Here’s some reporting about what Hicks said to Trump that refreshed my recollection about why her testimony matters, especially as the committee lacks Trump’s own firsthand account, at least to date. 4/https://t.co/8v5knfHX4k
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) October 25, 2022
That sounds about right, I have seen no reporting that places Hicks in the Oval on Jan. 6th.
But Mangoman has opinions:
I’m not confused: https://t.co/CFUpaHmldX
— Mangoman (@69mangoman) October 25, 2022
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The dates on these tweet says all… https://t.co/AaMIVjXQHx
— Mangoman (@69mangoman) October 25, 2022
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— Mangoman (@69mangoman) October 25, 2022
Eww.
— Mangoman (@69mangoman) October 25, 2022
Sing, Hope, sing!
To be honest, I either didn’t ever know she’d returned to Team Trump in late 2020, or forgot. Whatever. If she tries to play “Executive Privilege” games a criminal referral to DOJ will be an expensive lesson for her. It’s not like Trump will cover her legal bills!
The DOJ has requested evidence from the J6 Committe, and has been promised it, but doesn’t have it yet. What the DOJ now has is evidence from its own investigation. That is probably a whole lot, but we don’t actually know that – we can only presume. Yes, a couple of former prosecutors recently opined that the DOJ has enough right now to idict him for obstruction – specifically for ubstruction – no mention of J6.(Interfering with a Federal procedure” though similar is a different charge from obstruction.)Conflating the two investigations tends to make both look bad.