As Trump Was Attempting A Coup, Hope Hicks Worried About Finding A New Job
As the Capitol was under attack, Trump aides like Hope Hicks worried that a coup could hurt their job prospects.
As the Capitol was under attack, Trump aides like Hope Hicks worried that a coup could hurt their job prospects.
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks is sitting down to testify before the 1/6 Committee with a transcribed interview.
Trump knowingly endangered American lives by still holding campaign events after he knew that Hope Hicks tested positive for COVID. Kaitlin Collins of CNN tweeted: I’m told a small group of officials were aware Thursday a.m. that Hope Hicks had tested positive. Despite that, President Trump traveled to New Jersey for a fundraiser and his…
Hope Hicks, who just tested positive for the virus, has been in close contact with Donald Trump and other staff members in recent days.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler said that Hicks and Trump gave Democrats a huge gift that will help them win in court.
Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) asked Hope Hicks if she was truthful to Mueller, and her lawyers refused to allow her to answer.
Hope Hicks confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee that Donald Trump welcomed Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, and was relieved by it.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) said that House Judiciary Democrats are going to sue to stop Trump’s obstruction of Hope Hicks’ full testimony.
House Judiciary Democrats emerged from the Hope Hicks interview enraged by the White House counsel blocking every single question she was asked about the Trump presidency.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told reporters that Hope Hicks is answering questions, but White House lawyers are blocking her from discussing her time in the White House.
Hope Hicks and her attorney ignored Trump’s claim of executive privilege over her testimony, and by showing up cracked his wall of witness obstruction.
Hope Hicks has agreed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for an interview in one week, next Wednesday, June 19.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, who is also a Democratic presidential candidate, has one question for Hope Hicks and that is did Donald or Ivanka Trump ever ask you to lie?
New reports out of the White House say that President Donald Trump is extremely angry about Bob Woodward’s book, and he is taking it out on his White House communications office. The newest member of the communications staff is Bill Shine, who is reportedly catching the brunt of the president’s anger and frustration. Shine is the…
The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office on Monday also sought any emails between former White House communications director Hope Hicks and Cohen about a false and misleading account that Trump helped prepare with a group of Russians who had promised “dirt†on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
According to an article in New York Magazine, Trump confidant Hope Hicks (also known as the White House Communications Director) had been unhappy for months and wanted to leave the White House long before she announced her resignation in February. The author of the article, Olivia Nuzzi, wrote on twitter that Hicks would not speak on…
The White House denies it, but the resignation of Hope Hicks shows that Trump inner circle is fleeing due to the Russia investigation. Chuck Todd ran down the list of Trump staff who have fled in the last three months: #HopeHicks is just the latest to flee the sinking Trump ship. https://t.co/2QOWYmkezR #Russia pic.twitter.com/wwL2n2ts4n —…
As soon as Robert Mueller got witness testimony that Hope Hicks obstructed justice, he has the leverage to force her to cut a deal and turn on Trump. The New York Times reported, “Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White…
Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, will become 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.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, has agreed to turn over documents related to his 2016 election campaign to congressional investigators, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The White House has told Hope Hicks, a former close aide to President Donald Trump, not to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee related to her time in the administration, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Hope Hicks, the former communications director of President Donald Trump, has been appointed as communications chief at Fox, the company being spun off from Twenty-First Century Fox’s
Hope Hicks, one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longest-serving, most trusted aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director.
Donald Trump and Hope Hicks have had contact with numerous Republican Senators and a Senate COVID outbreak could doom Trump’s SCOTUS nominee.
Spokesperson Hope Hicks said in a statement Monday he has given away “tens of millions of dollars†but she offered no specifics. She said “Mr. Trump continues to be unfairly maligned for his generosity and we will continue to correct the record,†but she did not actually set the record straight.
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, has been hired as a contributor for the far-right outlet Newsmax. He has already begun working, according to a Newsmax spokesperson. The younger Giuliani, who worked in the White House, isn’t the only former Trump staffer to take a job with Newsmax, which…
Andrew Giuliani, a White House staffer and the son of President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Giuliani announced the news via Twitter. “This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19,” he wrote. “I am experiencing mild symptoms, and am following all appropriate protocols, including being in quarantine and conducting…
The White House plans to hold a swearing-in ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett later tonight following her expected confirmation to the United States Supreme Court despite coronavirus concerns. According to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, once Barrett is confirmed by the Senate, “then we expect for a swearing in to happen later…
As the coronavirus sweeps through the White House, infecting Donald Trump, advisor Hope Hicks, Kellyanne Conway, three Republican senators, and more, the bombshell report on Trump’s tax returns The New York Times dropped in late September already seems to be receding from the news cycle. Updates on Trump’s health status dominate the headlines and television…
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of Donald Trump’s biggest defenders, has officially tested positive for COVID-19.
Even with coronavirus spreading through his party, Trump refuses to make masks mandatory at the White House.
Vice President Mike Pence told the media that he was in the Oval Office with Trump who has tested positive for coronavirus.
The White House press office sent a memorandum from the President’s Physician confirming that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the Coronavirus.
Trump is demanding that Republicans put on a blockbuster convention that will outshine the nearly universally praised Biden convention.
The Senate Intelligence Committee raised concerns about testimony given by some of Trump’s family members during the Russia investigation.
White House advisers are sick of the President’s self-pitying attitude, according to a new report from The Washington Post. Donald Trump’s son-in-law has urged him to cheer up. The Post claims that those close to President Trump are tired of his “woe is me” attitude. He’s reportedly unhappy with recent events and bad polling, and it shows. Jared Kushner…
President Donald Trump reflected on his approach to the Russia investigation during a phone interview with the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” saying he “learned a lot” from studying history and the administration of former President Richard Nixon. “I learned a lot from Richard Nixon. Don’t fire people,” he said. “I learned a lot. I…
The DOJ has told Robert Mueller that they expect him to limit his testimony to what is in the Mueller report, but they aren’t sending any lawyers to the hearing with him.
Rep. Adam Schiff is calling for an investigation into Attorney General Barr’s role in shutting down the SDNY investigation into Trump campaign finance felonies.
Documents released by a judge’s order on Thursday detailed a flurry of communications involving Donald Trump, his campaign team and former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to engineer hush-money payments to a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the president shortly before the 2016 election.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has subpoenaed Felix Sater after he didn’t show up for an interview.
A new poll shows that among Democrats, the drumbeat for impeachment proceedings is getting louder and more intense. At 27%, overall support for impeachment is up 10% from last month. Another 24% of those polled support continuing the investigation. The effect of these numbers, in isolation of any other consideration, is bad news for Donald…
Democrats in the House of Representatives have the power to reach a verdict on impeachment without having to go through Republicans in the Senate.
Buried in the Mueller report is an instance of the White House appearing to have the ability to tell Fox News what to cut out of their interviews with Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee just completed a vote that authorized its chairman to use a subpoena to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s report and all of his underlying evidence. BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee votes to authorize a subpoena of the full Mueller report, setting up…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said it will vote on Wednesday on whether to authorize subpoenas to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Lawmakers will also consider subpoenas for underlying evidence from Mueller’s investigation and from five former aides…
House Democrats say they will vote on Wednesday to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s complete report. They also will subpoena Mueller’s underlying evidence files and other materials, according to CNN. https://twitter.com/CNNNewsource/status/1112709430125215744 Leading Democrats in Congress have been saying for the past week that they are tired of Attorney General Bill Barr’s games. And now they…
Donald Trump, his children, and his inner circle appear to be very confident that they will not be implicated in the report which may soon be issued by special counsel Robert Mueller. However, according to a report published this morning by POLITICO, some of them might already have been indicted and don’t even know about…
Democrats taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January plan to send Special Counsel Robert Mueller the transcripts of testimony by some of President Donald Trump’s closest associates so they can be reviewed for evidence and possible falsehoods, said three sources familiar with the matter.
The House Intelligence Committee will vote Friday to release the transcripts of more than 50 interviews the panel conducted as part of its investigation into Russian election meddling, the committee posted Wednesday. The interviews will include testimony from many prominent figures. Friday’s planned vote was scheduled by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. After the vote,…
Omarosa released a new tape of Trump wandering into a White House meeting and babbling a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton colluding with Russia.
Ultimately, it’s not yet a certainty that the so-called N-word tape exists, but the White House is sure acting like it does.
The White House told the media on Monday that President Donald Trump would not take any questions after he admitted on Twitter that his son may have colluded with Russians during the 2016 campaign. “JUST IN: White House announces a travel/photo lid, which means no public appearances by Trump today as new questions swirl around…
Trump is about to name former sexual harassment enabler and Fox News boss, Bill Shine, as White House Communications Director, which will make the Fox News takeover of White House messaging official.
Not only are more people looking to jump off this Hindenburg disaster of a presidency, but it’s going to be increasingly hard to find anyone willing to replace them.
Michael Cohen must be the worst “fixer” in the world. He is supposed to fix Donald Trump’s legal and political problems but instead through his own stupid actions he has brought to the forefront some old rape charges against Trump that he thought had been buried years ago. Because Cohen was dumb enough to make…
On Sunday morning President Donald Trump continued his unprecedented and alarming attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, tweeting that the investigation has “destroyed” and “devastated” lives. “Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt?†Trump wrote in an early…
Former US Attorney Joyce Vance says that Donald Trump Jr. contradicted himself in Senate testimony about his father’s knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting with Russians and implicated the president in a story that will not hold up.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has resigned, the president’s spokeswoman said on Tuesday, in the latest departure from the White House of a senior adviser.
Tucker Carlson never uttered the Michael Cohen, but he did give plenty of coverage to the possibility that pandas are sex-crazed killing machines. Video: Fox News talks about sex-crazed killer pandas instead of the FBI raid of #MichaelCohen https://t.co/MOldRDg3yM pic.twitter.com/GjszAGmrC5 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 10, 2018 Carlson said, “Are pandas in fact sex…
With Trump, this perfect storm of incompetence and legally questionable behavior on a whole host of fronts threatens to sink his presidency.
The Atlantic reports that “Counselor to the President” Kellyanne Conway is this close to accepting the recently (and repeatedly) vacated White House Communications Director position. Evidently being an enabling, lying sycophant Trump’s being a violator of ethics law. That would make her the 5th person to hold that job in the Trump administration in 1…
Instead of demanding better from a president who is incapable, instead of holding him to the high standards of this office, instead of saying he is unfit and unable to serve, it has become acceptable to ask, Who are the “adults in the room†keeping him in line?
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is in trouble with Donald Trump and now is hiding out from reporters.  On Wednesday Sanders accidentally told the truth about Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and Trump was furious. Meanwhile a defiant Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) posted a racy photo of herself…
The following is a partial list of officials who have been fired or have left the administration since Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, as well as people who were nominated by him for a position but did not take the job:
Trump has no plan and no candidates in place to replace former top economic adviser Gary Cohn because people are leaving so quickly that he can’t get replacements together. Jonathan Swan of Axios tweeted: White House has nobody set to replace Cohn. We’ll hear plenty of names floated in next 24 hours but they’ve done…
According to numerous reports, special counsel Mueller has issued yet another subpoena. This time, the person being asked to comply is an unnamed witness who’s had communication with Trump and others in his campaign for years. The person will have to hand over, among other records, text messages, emails, phone logs, and work documents dating…
Anthony Scaramucci, known for serving as Trump’s communications director for a whopping 10 days before being fired, is currently on a list of people blacklisted from visiting the White House. A White House official confirmed to Bloomberg on Friday that Scaramucci, having left under “adverse circumstances,” is one among a group of other former employees…
Multiple White House insiders describe Trump as depressed, angry, and losing his mind. NBC News reported: “On Wednesday evening, the president became “unglued,” in the words of one official familiar with the president’s state of mind. A trifecta of events had set him off in a way that two officials said they had not seen…
Trump is being described as angry, isolated, and trying to get Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to leave the White House due to Kushner’s various scandals. The New York Times reported: Mr. Trump is isolated and angry, as well, according to other friends and aides, as he carries on a bitter feud with his attorney…
Trump’s White House staff is trying to quit. The problem is that no one else will hire them because working for Trump has made them toxic. Buzzfeed reported: A former White House official said he’s spoken with more aides inside the White House who are trying to leave the administration, but not necessarily getting the…
Multiple companies loaned a combined total of $509 million after having met with Donald Trump’s son-in-law at the White House.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, went through point by point a list of people who Republicans are refusing to subpoena in the Russia investigation. Here is the full statement as provided to PoliticusUSA: Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, released the…
Sam Nunberg, a former political aide to Donald Trump, will be interviewed on Thursday as part of a U.S. special counsel’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Remember when some pundits were singing the praises of John Kelly? They praised his work at the Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part.
Lawrence O’Donnell destroyed the Trump White House for trying to save the job of serial wife beater Rob Porter. Video: Lawrence O'Donnell destroys the Trump White House for standing beside serial wife beater Rob Porter. #TheLastWord pic.twitter.com/Whe0zO6A1S — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 8, 2018 O’Donnell said in part, “So Rob Porter will go to…
The misleading cover story crafted by the administration aboard Air Force One is under intense scrutiny as part of Mueller’s investigation.
President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a U.S. House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
“This was not a secret. Everybody was told to speak to me. … Bannon told people to cooperate. Sean Spicer told people to cooperate. Kellyanne Conway told people to cooperate.”
Two key figures in the Russia investigation who are no longer with the administration are actually struggling to pay their legal fees.
Robert Mueller’s investigation is picking up strength as the category five scandal gets closer and closer to the Oval Office.
Donald Trump’s transition team is in full backpedal mode after his sons Eric and Don Jr. were caught selling access to the president in exchange for a vaguely worded charitable donation.
“There are certain norms about the press and the presidency that are there for a reason. And the early signs from Donald Trump are worrisome”
The protective press pool that Trump ditched is meant to ensure that the American people know exactly what their president-elect is doing.
Trump claims he is going to “drain the swamp.” The problem is he plans to fill it up with Russians only too eager to take the job of running our country
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Melania was paid $20,056 for 10 modeling jobs that occurred in the seven weeks before she got a work visa.
“Contrary to yesterday’s report on Fox, Oz will NOT be reviewing the results of Trump’s recent physical”
Groups of wealthy Republicans unhappy with Donald Trump have been privately courting prominent peers to join them in backing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s U.S. presidential bid, several people involved in the effort told Reuters.
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s former butler over a Facebook post calling for President Barack Obama’s assassination.
Alexia Palmer accuses Trump Model Management LLC of lying to the federal government in its work-visa application that said she would be paid a $75,000-a-year salary while living in the United States, according to court documents. The complaint alleges “fraudulent misrepresentation†and violations of U.S. immigration and labor laws.
One of Donald Trump’s sons appeared along with a white supremacist while giving an interview on a conservative radio show, adding to concerns that the front-runner in the battle to be the Republican candidate in November’s presidential election is willing to accept support from extremist supporters.
Trump is trying to quietly slip by today’s meeting without mentioning the endorsement that never was. A Georgia rally is the big deal now.
Donald Trump is showing COVID symptoms, which only happens in 20% of cases, which means that Trump is doing worse than 80% of cases.
Anthony Scaramucci has accused Donald Trump of stoking the fires of a race war. The former White House Communications Director offered searing criticism over the weekend. Scaramucci worked for the Trump administration for 10 days in 2017 before resigning over an indiscreet interview. Though he became a pro-Trump commentator for a period, he later turned…
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is now scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to The New York Times. Trump has long wielded Twitter as a weapon. Now the special counsel is investigating his tweets as part of a…
Senior White House officials including Chief of Staff John Kelly tried unsuccessfully to convince White House staff secretary not to resign after two of his ex-wives came forward with abuse allegations. After The Daily Mail published two stories about the abuse, Axios reported that senior officials in the White House tried to convince Porter to…
When Republicans voted to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night on the Senate floor, they justified it by using shame. This matters because this is how Republicans silenced dissent under George W. Bush, and way too many liberals and Democrats fell for it then.
This isn’t a partisan thing, this is a humanity thing. A democracy thing.
If the Fox “News” defense of Donald Trump’s gaffes doesn’t work, they are already helping him blame his loss on the mythical voter fraud.
After railing against it, Republican presidential candidate hopeful and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) missed the Loretta Lynch confirmation vote on Thursday because he flew back to Texas for a Dallas fundraiser for himself.