Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director
Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she plans to leave the White House in the coming weeks.
Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign without any experience in politics, became known as one of the few aides who understood his personality and style and could challenge the president to change his views.
Ms. Hicks had been considering leaving for several months. She told colleagues that she had accomplished what she felt she could with a job that made her one of the most powerful people in Washington, and that there would never be a perfect moment to leave, according to White House aides.
Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job.
She did not say what her next job would be, and her departure date was unclear, but it is likely to be in the next few weeks.Ms. Hicks said that she had “no words” to express her gratitude to the president, who responded with his own statement.
“Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years,” Mr. Trump said. “She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person. I will miss having her by my side, but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future.”
As communications director, Ms. Hicks worked to stabilize, to some extent, a fractious press department of about 40 people who were often at odds with one another in 2017. She maintained one of the lowest public profiles of anyone to ever hold the job, declining to sit for interviews or appear at the White House briefing room podium. That mystique added to the outsize attention she received.
“I quickly realized what so many have learned about Hope: She is strategic, poised and wise beyond her years,” said John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff. “She became a trusted adviser and counselor, and did a tremendous job overseeing the communications for the president’s agenda including the passage of historic tax reform. She has served her country with great distinction. To say that she will be missed is an understatement.”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/hope-hicks-resign-communications-director.html
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Another Trump Administration resignation.
First rocked by the Porter scandal, Hope Hicks, via the WH, announced her impending resignation the day after an eight hour "grilling" by the House Intelligence Committee.
How ironic that Hicks resigned from the Trump regime because her "white lies" are embarrassing. I assumed all these folks were pathological liars and immune to embarrassment.
One has to wonder if this was one of those "white lies"
or something else...
"or something else"
Yea, it was something,
another FUCKEN Something ELSE
Just How Many Something Elses does this Muther F'r get ?
Hicks was berated by Trump over her testimony...
Perhaps you should look again at the article, which is very brief:
"Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job."
Two years in a job like that for a woman of her age is a lot, regardless of the Schiff leaks about her testimony.
C'mon Vic.
First she was going to resign when the Porter thing blew up.
Then she never said that.
Now she was going to resign eventually......
and now it's not due to her testimony
or the story that Trump called her stupid.....
Sounds a lot like White House speak for being politically correct and covering one's ass.
I'd like to see the links showing her either vocally or in print saying any of those accusations or is it news from CNN, which would explain it. Just provide the links of proof. From what I've heard the Trump calling her stupid is false, but CNN put it out there anyway. Just provide the links of the proof and I'll concede, otherwise it's just more propaganda from the Fake News Network.
Just about every one of the links out there come back to Erica Burnett or CNN.
The AP and Time are going with the story as well.
However, CNN also reports that the WH denies the story in it's totality,
which we would expect from any Administration.
I didn't believe any of the newspaper or magazine stories about Nixon until I heard the tapes.
Life happens.
Today's fake news is sometimes tomorrows indictment.
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Thanks for staying on topic SP.
One by one, the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
So does this mean that she won't be sucking the big D off anymore?
No but they will have to pay her in one dollar bills now.
Leave it to the Left to put it in the gutter, their comfort zone.
Signed,
Donny the pussy grabber.
She's only leaving because her abusive boyfriend is jealous that she is more important that him. She knows what's good for her.
If she is still in any kind of relationship with Porter,
that contradicts every compliment that Trump, Kelly, Huckabee et al.,
have been heaping on her for her intelligence.
Who?
Hope Hicks, remember?
No who is "Drumpf"
Oh surely you can figure it out.
How many times have you used Obummer or worse for Obama.
or Shillary or worse for HRC?
At least Drumpf is Trump's Grandfather's actual ancestral name from Europe.
There shouldn't be anything derogatory about a name changed at Ellis Island by prejudiced Immigration officers...
Anyone who asks "Who is Drumpf" already knows, is cranky and spoiling for a fight. Sort of like Trump as when he popped off with these ignorant tariffs for no good goddam reason.
Ah never!
C'mon, unless you're claiming typos on your cell phone,
remember we go back quite a few years
and you've been quite vocal about your "feelings" for the former POTUS.
Besides, Drumpf is part of Trumps family history, no shame in it regardless of how it is used.
Calling President Trump "Drumpf" is as intelligent as referring to the Clintons as the "Blythes".
Gee, you don't do THAT, do you?
I have no doubt whatsoever that there are at least (and I am sure many more) right wingers on this site who use words like libtards and obummers as there are left wingers who use the word Drumpf. In fact it seems that the only people lately who are keeping the Drumpf name alive are right wingers looking for an argument. Give a rest children. Let it die for fucks sake.
In fact why don't you baby right wingers try dropping the childish names for awhile and try some real discussions instead of the "Libtards" and such for once? You might actually find that many Democrats and Independents and even a few Republicans on this site have moved far past the childishness and are discussing real problems and topics and have left you far behind. If you'd like to join the adults then grow the fuck up and try some serious adult talk for once. If you are just here to make petty little insults or start arguments then please go to FOX or REDDIT or some other site. This site has existed many, many years before you came here and damn it you will conform to it and it will not conform to you. Deal.
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Continually OFF TOPIC !
Pease desist!
Off topic.
Continually off topic
Sorry R,
but while I agree to a large extent, we have wandered off topic.
Please don't feed the right conservative extremists.
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More than likely She left because of all the heat this White House gets on a daily basis. I think the 9 hour grilling the 29 year old endured was the final straw
That’s what telling “white lies” to your country will get you.
She shouldn't have lied.
As opposed to monstrous lies, the like of which Susan Rice was noted for
She was burned out. She was loyal and did a good job. Mercedes Schlapp will have big heels to fill.
She is trying to claim that her previous FBI interviews were truthful after admitting to the House committee that her job required her to tell little white lies ( to the nation ) for Trump.
Her credibility is shot, her previous testimony can now be questioned
and she quit because the President berated her and called her stupid.
At the same time Kelly and Huckabee were praising her intelligence.
Or Donald Trump.. who lies 81% of the time.
1/10 for your deflection efforts.
Weird that she burned out the day after she was questioned by Mueller's team.
Well....9 hours is a long stretch....
She hung around Trump every minute he was awake, as she apparently was the go between for every Trump tweet no matter the time of day,
but I guess it's different when you're a witness in front of Congress
instead of ........"eye candy" for Donald?
I think you mean knee pads.
She only left after she admitted lying to Mueller's investigation.
I think her position is that she told the truth to the FBI in November
but has told numerous 'white lies' (to the press) while working directly for Trump since January 2016.
Her admission of these lies was to the House committee.
Obviously it now casts doubt on her previous testimony as well.
She had no qualifications to be a top white house adviser, so good riddance.
Her claim to fame is that she is a friend of the Trump family. The nation would be better off if everyone considered that a mark of shame instead.
I bet she is smart enough to know the difference between a "TOP" White house adviser and a communications director though...
Perhaps you should ask what her role was before she took on the job of communications director?
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What you trying to say? Obviously I cant ask her but seeing you want to interject yourself in someone else's ignorant comment Why don't you tell me what her role was. FYI she was never a "TOP" White house adviser no matter how you try to spin it.
Oh wow you showed me. CNN called her a adviser it must be true. She was never a Adviser. period
You don't know what you are talking about.
Here official title was Director of Communications for the White House. There is no such official title as "top White House advisor" which she could also have been, indeed was.
A position was CREATED for Hope Hicks, that did not exist in previous administrations, in order to get her into a West Wing position. She was in the middle of the phony explanation of the Trump tower meeting between Trump Jr, Kushner, Manafort, and the Russians. Trump consulted with her as to how to proceed. She was an adviser.
I wonder what it was about here that captured Trump's attention?
You must know by now that CNN is false and fake news. You need to start watching FOX to get the complete and true story.
Well now we know what your major malfunction is.
An advisor we looked upon more than listened to. The White House will survive another day
wow ignorance runs in packs it seems.......
Roger Stone
Informal advisor
•Richard Nixon 1972 presidential
•Ronald Reagan 1976 presidential
•Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential
•Ronald Reagan 1984 presidential
•Jack Kemp 1988 presidential
•Donald Trump 2016 presidential
Sam Clovis
Co-chair and policy advisor
•2014 U.S. Senate candidate
•2014 Iowa State Treasurer candidate
•Rick Perry 2016 presidential
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Senior advisor
•Mike Huckabee 2002 gubernatorial
•George W. Bush 2004 presidential
•Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential
•John Boozman 2010 U.S. Senate
•Tim Pawlenty 2012 presidential
•Tom Cotton 2014 U.S. Senate
•Mike Huckabee 2016 presidential
Michael Biundo
Senior advisor
•Pat Buchanan 1996 presidential
•Frank Guinta 2010 U.S. House, 2005 and 2007 Manchester, NH mayoral
•Rick Santorum 2012 presidential
•Mitt Romney 2012 presidential
•Rand Paul 2016 presidential
•John Kasich 2016 presidential
nope don't see any Hope hicks in a advisory role but hey if three people spew their ignorance on a subject it must be so.
What are you going to do, just throw a lot of slop on the screen and hope it means something?
Isn't that what you did?
Skirting the CoC [ph]
From January to September 2017, she served as White House Director of Strategic Communications , a role created for her.
wikipedia
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Hicks did not become Communications Director until last September after Scaramouche fucked it up.
Her original position was CREATED for her because she needed a title. She was to be Trump's adviser for public relations. His top adviser for public relations. Most presidents dont have such a top adviser for public relations, but our reality tv president thought that was most important.
Uh, you don't know what you are talking about, but don't let that deter you.
She shared Trump's Manhattan office with him as his press secretary and spent so much time with Trump that it ended her 6 year relationship with her boyfriend.
Then she had the "intelligence" to start dating Corey Lewandowski before he got bounced from the Trump campaign.
Next Porter?
no wonder she needs a break...
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Didn't I bust you faking headlines before? Even CNN didn't call her a adviser. You doctored you B.S. to make it look like they did. No where in your link do they call her a adviser.
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lol. Which headline do you think I doctored? This should be fun.
Here is another passage from that article
(CNN) White House communications director Hope Hicks , one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving and closest aides, is resigning, the White House confirmed Wednesday.
As the White House Turns: A Guide to the Shifting Power Centers Among Trump's Top Advisers
Guess what? Hope Hicks' name is on the list.
some of Hicks' duties have increasingly been filled over the last two months by Mercedes Schlapp, the senior adviser for strategic communications.
Let’s see here - Hicks has duties, some of which have been shared with Schlapp who is a ‘senior advisor’, but somehow Hicks is not an advisor. Dead end logic.
Give it a rest. You know what you did. Now your ignorance is taking on a whole new thing.
Hope Hicks was not a TOP Adviser to Trump no matter how you try to twist it. She had a position in his administration that is it.
Ya, cause "director" and "advisor" are soooooo different.
wow another one .....OMFG.
So a adviser taking on some of Hopes Duties makes Hope a adviser.......
LMFAOAU
Lol. You must think Hicks was responsible for changing the stationary in the copy machine and being head of the employee birthday committee. It’s no surprise when a conservative male jumps to those conclusions.
Skirting the CoC [ph] Jumps to conclusions of what someone's sex is because they try to exhaust one of their repetitive talking points.
You edited the adviser in there to make it look like they were talking about her and all your ignorant little friends came to back you up. LMFAO. Comment removed for CoC violation [ph]
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You arent even a challenge KD Michigan
It took Hope Hicks seven years to go from college graduate to White House communications director.
She spent about five of those years working for the Trumps, developing a strong relationship with the future US President and his family, and now stands as one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving and most trusted aides.
But it's that role as a top Trump confidante, with an office steps from the Oval Office, that has landed her in special counsel Robert Mueller's hot seat .
Can you list all the false and fake news stories that they have ran? We'll wait...
You're in over your head here. Maybe a less challenging forum would be a better fit for you.
The book "Fire and Fury", Michael Wolff said that many White House aides told him that Trump has been having an on going affair with someone close to him in the White House who travels with him frequently on Air Force One, including while on the plane itself.
Does romper room have a blog? Might be perfect for them.
Hey, funny thing happened today during your, "I hate liberals" rant. Hope Hicks resigned.
You have got to be joking that Fox News is accurate and factual.
Should I explain how a confirmation bias works?
If you insist.
“She became a trusted adviser and counselor and did a tremendous job overseeing the communications for the President’s agenda, including the passage of historic tax reform," Kelly said. "To say that she will be missed, is an understatement.”
Fox News quotes White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly. Dispute that, Mary.
Probably her 76 IQ.
Hope Hicks title was created to give her a job title while she served the President.
We know she made $92,000 while she worked for the campaign.
We assume from the list below that she made the same salary as Dir of strategic communications as she did as Communications Director which also paid her $179,900.00
That is the maximum a staffer/adviser/assistant can make in the WH
Here is a partial list of the top "staffers" in the WH
So if your going for semantic accuracy, maybe we should settle on the "assistant to the president" label that the WH apparently prefers
Otherwise, Yes, she was a top adviser, in the top pay bracket.
Pretty sure that Trump admired her oral skills over her typing skills.
Trump so badly wanted her to be with him in close proximity to the oval office that he had a job title, that did not exist prior, created for Hope Hicks. That indicates as clearly as anything that he considered her very important to his administration.
It's no surprise that some dumbass Liberal Jumps to conclusions of what someone's sex is because they try to exhaust one of their repetitive talking points.
I see two CoCs and one skirt from you in this article, and yet it's blatantly obvious that you are calling me a dumbass in plain English without an additional violation. Our god of moderation works in mysterious ways.
Sophomania anyone?
My bad. I wrote up the violation without removing it.
Christ, they all make more than the average salary of a pediatrician in this goddam country.
John - jjjjeeeezzzzz bud - do some friggin' research before you post inane responses like that -
" Trump so badly wanted her to be with him in close proximity to the oval office that he had a job title, t hat did not exist prior,"
Communication's Director/Director of Communications -The White House Communications Director or White House Director of Communications , also known as Assistant to the President for Communications , is part of the senior staff of the President of the United States, and is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the President and leading its media campaign. The director, along with his or her staff, works on speeches such as the inaugural address and the State of the Union Address. The Communications Director, who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the President without the need for Senate confirmation, is usually given an office in the West Wing of the White House.
The White House Office of Communications was established by Herbert G. Klein in January 1969 during the Nixon administration. It was separate from the Office of the Press Secretary from 1969 to 1974.
until she was promoted to replace Sean Spicer.........the original Director of Communications
Or the Mooch if you count his 10 days of "glory"...
there is no Wiki page for WH director of strategic communications......
if you google it
it goes straight to the one and only Hope Hicks, promoted to WH Director of Communications August 2017
Don't you feel better now?
I'm guessing that Hope was a top AND bottom 'adviser' in the White House!
Is that the sort of thing you fantasize about?
Constantly Armando!
Ditto!
Trump hired her from just seeing a photograph. I guess we all have our priorities.
This administration is hopeless.
Totally, as are their supporters.
I was going to say let the left wing nut conspiracies begin, but I see I'm already too late. I swear liberals would die of boredom if they didn't have the palace intrigue at the White House to keep them entertained.
Aww, cmon Armando, you gotta admit, Trump and company ARE very entertaining!
Let me guess, hope hicks didn't actually resign?
Let me guess, hope hicks didn't actually resign?
It's a false flag operation. Just ask Alex Jones.
She resigned but I'm sure the left wing gossip mill will come up with all sorts of conspiracy theories about it.
She resigned the day after being questioned by Mueller. And that doesn't raise even one red flag for you? I mean, you are STILL ranting and raving about Hillary after 9 failed investigations, but this....hope hicks resigning, doesn't strike you as even a little bit odd?
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Why am I not surprised.
Pretty sure that the fact that she was fucking Trump had nothing to do with it.
Are they taking out the stripper pole now, or are they replacing Hope?
The stripper pole in AF1 must remain as it is a structural airframe member.
I wonder how long it will be until we hear the breaking news of "Hope Hicks surprised everyone by appearing in Federal Court today to plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in exchange for her full cooperation with the Mueller Russia investigation."?
The same Mueller investigation that so far has only uncovered pro Bernie/ Stein Russian trolls and pre Trump crimes by Manafort?
Bernie wasn't a candidate and the Russians were trying to bleed off progressive votes that might have went to Hillary and get them to vote a for a protest candidate such as Jill Stein as a way to cut into Hillary's vote count.
Pretty sure that neither you nor I know how much ammo Mueller has in his big gun. Bet that Trump does.
I would suspect that we don't know 1/10 of the tip of the iceberg of what Mueller knows. He is moving with a smooth confidence that if I were guilty of anything at all and he was investigating me would scare the hell out of me. I am a liberal and he is a Republican, but back when I heard that Bush had appointed him as head of the FBI I told my wife that he could not have found a more perfect choice and he was approved by the Senate 98-0. When Obama asked the Senate to appoint him for 2 more years they approved him by a vote of 100-0 and the Senate never agrees completely on anything. So when Rod Rosenstein picked him to be the Special Counsel I again told Joan that he could not have picked a more perfect person. Mueller's reputation and integrity are impeccable and unassailable. Only lies can be told about him if some one wants to attack his impartiality and non-partisanship. He is probably the only qualified investigator in the world, again despite being a Republican, that if he says in his final report (no, not right now, not until he is finished) that Donald Trump is completely clean from the 2016 election and in his relationship with Russia, I will accept it 100%, say fine and walk away knowing that there was a fair, complete and honest investigation and that the conclusion was the same.
Firing Comey will end up in obstruction of justice charges.
Why? As President, Trump can fire anyone of his Secretary's or Directors. His choice, not yours.
I completely agree on Mueller. There is absolutely no one I trust more to conduct a professional, non political investigation more than him.
Its the reason why he chose to fire Comey. Trump wanted Comey to pledge allegiance to Trump and drop the Russia investigation. Comey said no and was fired for obeying the law.
Comey was fired for being a total disgrace of a leader and letting Hillary plants McCabe and Strzok try to stage a coup on the rightfully elected president.
What are you smoking?
Strozk insisted that Comey reopen the Hillary e mail case based on Weiners laptop copies of possibly "new" emails from SoS Clinton.
Comey reopened it mere weeks before the election, probably costing her the election.
How does that make them or McCabe "plants" for, or by Hillary?
Wait! I though it was the Russians that cost her the election! Which is it? Can you puck just one if the many excuses for why she lost?!
Comey reopened the email investigation because McCabe knew since September about the emails on Weiners laptop and said nothing. Strzok was the agent who changed the language in Comeys statement to "extremely careless". I'm not saying Comey was the ringleader. I'm just saying he had to be blind or powerless not to see what was going on under his nose.
She lost three or four states by 60 to 70 thousand votes, losing all of the electoral votes.
Take your own "puck". A few hundred thousand to either her email "issues"
or Russian bots on Facebook.
Bullshit it cost her the election. So damn tired of liberals attempting to make excuses why your Anointed One lost.
Don't you remember the FBI cleared your beloved Abuela?
And prove that either one or any of the other excuses given by the left had any influence on any of that.
Bullshit it cost her the election.
Regardless, Clinton started the whole chain in motion by trying to hide classified emails from mandated oversight. If she would have simply followed protocall, the FBI wouldn't have been involved. She's responsible for everything that occurred after she decided she was above the rules.
Agreed, as far as the email server itself, HRC owns it.
You know that it cannot be proven easily if at all.
Certainly some people were influenced by the 'fake news' proliferated by Facebook & Twitter, but we'll never know the actual numbers who switched.
Now, if you don't think Comey's letter to Congress 11 days before the election didn't have some degree of a negative affect on her campaign then I cannot help you.
Both of my Aunts said it was the last straw and early voted for Trump in Phila., PA.
Both were horrified when Comey cleared Clinton 2 days before the election.
I'm certain that given the slim margin of Trump's victory in PA, Comey's on again, off again announcements hurt HRC's vote count.
It's a reasonable conclusion.
Pure supposition.
She lost.
We'll never know what she would have done.
We're not Germany.
You are very far off topic.
See my response to arkpdx.
Just more excuses.
Clinton ran a horrible campaign-period.
Most (the vast majority) had made up their minds LONG before Comey's letter to Congress about Weiner's laptop having emails on it.
WHY did Weiner's laptop even HAVE any emails that could even be considered to be top-secret on it anyways? Were Clinton staff members in the regular habit of disseminating emails from within the campaign?
I guess with all Democrat attorneys and Hillary supporters, we can expect a complete honest witch hunt.
Ask Kushner?
After ALL of the criticism and legal histrionics of HRC and her server ( and lack of security with Huma & Weiner )
Jared and Ivanka decided, after the election, that they needed a personal server to coordinate all of their emails.
all of Kushner's emails from January to August have now been copied to his WH email for compliance.
One gets the impression that at the Cabinet level and above, some people just think they are above the rules.
Prove it?
You can't.
One can only guess based on bias and opinion.
Then you can't prove that Comey's letter cost Abuela the election, either.
So kindly stop any references to such.
Trump, your great white Abuelo, won by less than one percentage point in the three decisive states
Michigan (0.2 percent), Pennsylvania (0.7 percent) and Wisconsin (0.8 percent) where the winner takes all Electoral College points.
If Comey’s letter shifted the race by even one point across the board nationally, then, it will have changed the result.
Can it be proven, no.
Will it change your opinion or mine, obviously not.
Please don't ever ask anyone on this forum to "kindly" stop offering their "proof" or opinions
until you can do the same.
Kushner is not a Cabinet member. Sorry. And he has absolutely nothing to do with Hillary Clinton and HER classified emails showing up on non-government computers and servers.
I realize this will probably come as some great surprise, but it doesn't matter one iota if Trump won by 1 or a million votes--he still won. Period, end of story.
People need to learn that at least 270 ELECTORAL votes are required to win. Trump did that and more.
Stop attempting to blame other things when you simply can't prove them.
And why is it that Democrats ALWAYS seem to forget that their beloved Abuela was CLEARED BY COMEY?? WHY NO MENTION OF THAT? Because it destroys your arguments that Comey cost Abuela the election? Because it is a proven FACT?
Sorry, Trump isn't related to me. Nor did his campaign endeavor to get people, especially Latinos, to think of him as that, unlike Clinton.
Well which is it Tex, Everyone's mind was made up months before the election
or no one was swayed by Comey's lame "clearing" of Clinton on November 6 , what, 72 hours before the polls opened?
Let's agree to disagree, again
and get back on the topic which is Hope Hicks.........
Already debunked many times.
It's your own personal hang up about Clinton.
I'd ask you to kindly refrain from using Abuela but it says so much about you,
carry on.
But get back on topic.
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It didn't. There were no top secret emails ever. In fact, the FBI determined that there were no properly marked classified emails of any level for Clinton's emails that got onto Weiner's laptop (somehow via his wife's computer).
and we have discussed this before,
It was an ill advised post on her web page on December 22
it backfired ( as you plainly know ) and the story died by Christmas. ( that's 3 days )
NYT tried to revise it 01/08 and within hours scrubbed the word abuela from its postings.
Done, Nada, forgotten
except by one NT poster
who thinks it some badge of some sort.
Like I said, carry on, it says more about you than anything you can say about Hillary.
Last time.
Get back on the topic of the seed please.
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get back to the topic or leave please.
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Sure he can, just not for the reasons he plainly admitted to.
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I hope he does start firing the people investigating his crimes. That will be the guilty cherry on the shitcake of his obstruction of justice criminality. It would certainly hurry up his political demise.
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Collusion is a word that the media, (all of them), have settled on to cover the various and sometimes subjective interpretations as
violations of the Logan Act that are being investigated by the House, Senate and FBI Special Prosecutor.
Having said that, I don't need or want a response
unless it has something to do with Hope Hick's resignation.
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Liar, liar pants on fire
Wait...this is a surprise to you people?
Let's review.
Setting aside the article's reporting that she was planning on leaving anyway (which reminds me of the liberal's jaw yapping about McCabe resigning, since it was reported he was planning on quitting anyway), She testified that she was not always truthful in everything she tells people. In other words, she tells "little white lies".
Now, from an every day civilian standpoint, this is not a big deal.
And in business, this is not always a problem, if it's designed to further your company's interest, and isn't illegal.
But she is now working for the Government. And any admission of untruthfulness, regardless of where, when, to who, or why, is very damaging.
Were I the President, and I learned one of my staff said this, you better believe I would be expecting their resignation.
On the other hand, if this were the Obama administration, they'd probably give her a medal or something. Corner office with a view. Free parking space up front. Employee of the Qtr.
Please. The Trump administration makes Obama look like Mr. Clean.
Here is a hint. "Mr. Clean" had no indictments in 8 years, trump is up to 15 in less than a year.
Trump makes Reagan and W. Bush's administrative debacles look like a bad day in Mr. Roger's neighborhood.
I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a new constitutional Amendment to prevent this from happening in the future after it is finished.
To prevent what exactly and how would you propose to prevent whatever it is from happening .
Things like this,
Much of the Administration's issues can be traced back to the mountains of folders of training material and lists of potential candidates for different positions created by Chris Christy for the transition.
Christy was dismissed and
very little of the material was used, in fact, ethics training was ignored completely, leading to the resignation of Walter Shaub, the Director of the OGE.
Yep, I have to agree here, the Trump Administrations mantra is, "Ethics, we don't need no stinking ethics."
Pretty much any other President does.
But Trump makes the Dulles brothers look like angels.
One of the committee members asked Hicks if President Trump ever asked her to lie for him. Hope Hicks went into consultation with her lawyer and then came back and said she had told "white" lies.
Her idea and Trump's idea of "white lies", and the rest of the world's , are probably two different things.
Or use Executive Privilege to say both their asses.
Hope Hicks LIED to the FBI..."white lies"... She does understand that white lies are.....still lies, right? She must not be all that bright....unless her boyfriend is throwing a lamp at her.
Where does it say that?
In fact. it doesn't.
What she stated was that, per her position in the WH, she has had to tell "white lies" for the President
but that her FBI testimony ( the questions she agreed to answer ) were truthful.
As a witness, she is now tainted, and in spite of Trump's ager and calling her stupid,
maybe Kelly and Huckabee were correct about her intelligence.
Just an informational point: The testimony in which she admitted to "white lies" was before the House Intel Cmte. this week. I don't know if she's also been interviewed by the FBI or Mueller yet.
Interesting article from Daily Caller UK stating that the FBI interviewed her before December 1 2017.
This is prior to the allegation that Hicks said Trump Jrs emails "will never get out" on February 01.
With this witch hunt telling the Mueller your car is scarlet when the manufacturer says it's red will get you in trouble. If they can't find any collusion or anything relating to Trump and collusion, they have to get people on crap like this.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention, this "witch hunt" has netted five "witches" so far, it looks like Kuschner is next on the list of "witches" that will be caught in it.
It's not a witch hunt when they really are witches.
You can keep deluding yourself 'til the chickens come home to roost. But they are coming and it's not going to be good for your Shitbag of a president.
In her mind they're lies told by white people. She and this administration believe if you're white enough, your lies aren't really bad things, they're positive thinking. When Trump said his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever, sure it wasn't true, but he thinks if you believe something hard enough, and stare in a mirror and repeat it over and over, it'll come true.
With how much Trump lies to everyone else, i'm sure his staff lie to him all the time to feed his ego. Hope and everyone else around him have a primary job of lying to Donald, even his doctors follow suit.
"Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me! " - Donald Trump looking in the mirror every morning...
IF nothing else, threads like this are amusing. You get to see a game of telephone played out by deranged liberals where the facts gets so far and distorted from the actual news reports so as to be unrecognizable.
In about 50 posts, liberals will be hyperventilating that Bob Woodward claims Hope Hicks and Melania Trump had an affair and lied it about to the Supreme Court.
PIZZAGATE!!!! And you say liberals distort the facts? Maybe, but at least they don't just make up FAKE NEWS like the right wing does.
Do you mean like Breitbart?
Oh wait, that's true......
You know what they say about blind squirrels and Breitbart is filthy with blind squirrels.
This Presidency and Administration has me exhausted. This constant turmoil and chaos is disturbing. I'm trying to wait to hear the final results of the investigation but I admit that my earliest fears were nothing close to what they should have been as I watch this play out in real time.
But the right wing insists, STILL, that the trump white house and administration is a "finely oiled machine".
To the staunch supporters I don't think it will matter what the investigation presents. In my opinion the damage has been done and the country will not be united for quite a long time I suspect.
No, what we insist is that Trump is a million percent better than having either a FDR Marxist Fascist Democrat or a Bernie commie Democrat in the White House. Trump has surprised us by being the most conservative Republican in the White House since Reagan and perhaps even more so, since Coolidge.
With all of his flaws, we can take comfort that he is not an anti-American Democrat or Establishment Republican. Both are bad for our country
We haven’t been united in decades. Conservative Americans and the left have nothing to unite us. Our values and view of government are diametrically opposite
okay
Yes, Dems, Independents and "establishment" Republicans are actually "For the People" while the crazy ass people called "Conservatives" are in it for themselves.
Nonsense. The Marxist fascist Dems and the Establishment Republicans are about the submission to the state and not the people.
Lumping independents in this is ignorant. Many independents are like myself who vote 3rd party because we recognize that the Dems and Establishment Republicans despise the Constitution and individualism
the Dems are ideologically driven to see everyone enslaved to the state and the Establishment Republicans don’t have a problem with that
those who support them are evidently comfortable with this enslavement rather than the uncertainty (risk/reward) that comes from individualism
Yeah, trump is so conservative he's already asking congress to take guns away and then take the perps to court...
TRUMP wants to take guns away from people!!!!!
Obviously he’s wrong and that should never happen..
but he’s so far been our most conservative president since Reagan. I hope he goes on to match the conservatism of Coolidge who was one of our greatest presidents
Well, I cannot disagree more. Harding & Coolidge's hands off conservative policies led directly to the Wall Street collapse of 1929.
We're just over Bush's collapse of 2007.
While in office Coolidge said little and did less.
When the news reported his death, other writers asked "How can you tell"?
Hoover aided the onset of the Depression by engaging in leftist policies- raising taxes, increasing regulations, initiating marxist redistribution of wealth social programs. FDR campaigned against Hoover accusing Hoover of being a socialist and against States Rights. If was a subterfuge as FDR immediately then sought to magnify Hoover's marxist policies.
If you believe in our Constitutional Republic of limited Government and the Sovereignty of the Individual; if you believe in capitalism and the evils of the income tax against liberty, Coolidge is beyond a doubt our best president. If you believe in FDR's marxist Fascist Statism, then he is a bad president.
Poll- Coolidge is best president ever
www.debate.org/opinions/was-calvin-coolidge-the-best-president-ever
Why Coolidge was best president EVERLASTING
Gawd, rightwing revisionist upside history is hilarious, weird and worrisome to behold.
All facts, especially those about Hoover and FDR. It’s just that your Marxist public school teachers lied to you
Income tax against liberty?? WTF is that.
Independents are normally the middle of the road folks in my mind, you on the other hand seem to be more Tea Party Conservative.
Coolidge actually said quite a bit on a wide range of subjects. He spoke on equality, the role of government, the civil war, religious liberty, immigration, our founding ideals,
Coolidge examples
Coolidge speech at Memorial Continental Hall | June 30, 1924 (excerpt)
“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. One of the first signs of the breaking down of free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their own property. It makes little difference whether such a condition is brought about through the will of a dictator, through the power of a military force, or through the pressure of an organized minority. The result is the same. Unless the people can enjoy that reasonable security in the possession of their property, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, against unreasonable taxation, freedom is at an end. The common man is restrained and hampered in his ability to secure food and clothing and shelter. His wages are decreased, his hours of labor are lengthened. Against the recurring tendency in this direction there must be interposed the constant effort of an informed electorate and of patriotic public servants. The importance of a constant reiteration of these principles can not be overestimated. They can not be denied. They must not be ignored.”
Calvin Coolidge's First State of the Union Address (6 December 1923)
* Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.
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Your two links both lead to the same video. I guess there is only this one woman who thinks he is the best president ever.
Calvin Coolidge came out against lynching !
Let's build a statue of him!
No POTUS can crash an entire economy in just 7 months.
Well I can see why you would equate Coolidge with Trump...
btw Coolidge was also a golfer until he left the WH.
Generally in polls and studies Coolidge falls dead in the middle of the pack of best or worst Presidents usually between 22nd and 30th place .
Great Coolidge quotes
How is anyone being enslaved to the state? What rights have been taken away from you?
Calvin Coolidge was a mistake, almost as much as Grant, Reagan Dubya, Jackson and Hoover. The last decent Republican was Eisenhower.
I can only laugh at your comment. I hope it was a joke.
That outraged the southern conservatives who believed in racial justice...........
In the streets and parks.
What constitutional right or freedom has been taken away from you by the state that others people enjoy?
Who are the current southern white racist Democrats? How many of the Klan voted for Hillary or Bernie?
How can you not know about Nixon's southern straetegy that was fnished by Reagan when he pandered to the white evangelicals to get elected in 1980?
And while Eisenhower himself might have been decent the men he appointed to key positions of power were some of the most corrupt in US history. We're still dealing with the consequences of what the Dulles brothers did to line their pockets, and the Trump admin is even worse.
Thats why the Klan were chanting Lock Her Up.........?
If you believe the left wing statistics blog 538.com, there are about as many white racist democrats as there are white racist republicans.:
"There are white racists in both parties. By most questions, they represent a minority of white voters in both parties. They probably represent a slightly larger minority of white Republicans than white Democrats.
Fortunately, the expression of racism by whites toward blacks has decreased over time, and for Americans in both parties — at least, according to this survey. In 1990, the index of negative racial attitudes stood at 40 percent for white Democrats and 41 percent for white Republicans.
I believe the Dems also have a lock on the black racists vote as well.
I don't see many Hillary hats.
I'd like to see this evidence.
Bill was the two-term governor of Arkansas in the 1980s. He knew how to pander to get elected.
More bullshit propaganda. Too many ignorant people on this site parrot far left fake history that they have no knowledge about. As Sean Trende wrote:
"Reagan spoke for 15 minutes at the Neshoba County Fair, about seven miles outside of Philadelphia, in that politically "in-play" state carried by Jimmy Carter four years earlier by 14,000 votes. Eight years later, Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis spoke at the same Neshoba fair.
Here's what Reagan said at the fair about "states' rights": "Programs like education and others that should be turned back to the states and the local communities with the tax sources to fund them. I believe in states' rights. I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and the private level."
Not exactly, "Turn back the clock!" And immediately following his speech, Reagan headed to New York, where he spoke before the Urban League, one of the nation's oldest black civil rights organizations."
The idea that statement was some sort racist code is typical moonbattery from the modern left. They see Russians and racists under every bed.
That was 50+ years ago. I don't see any Hillary hats either.
Show me one current klan or Neo-Nazi member wearing a Hillary hat or tshirt. I dare you.
David Duke became a Republican in 1988
The GOP refuses to ban Duke because they would lose many of his racist followers, and they aren't ready to accept those losses.
David Duke endorsed the racist Steve King of Iowa after Steve King came out in support of Geert Wilders. I don't see many racist Democrats or progressives in the news.
Where is your proof that Slick Willy is a member of the KKK?
e GOP refuses to ban Duke because they would lose many of his racist followers, and they aren't ready to accept those losses.
The David Duke every Republican of consequence has denounced since he switched parties? The David Duke who received a whopping 3% of the vote despite the millions in free advertising he received from the media the last time he ran in a Louisiana primary?
Yeah, what a political powerhouse!
He's just fishing.
The problem is, Trump has no bait on the hook. This isn't Thursday Trump, this is Tuesday Trump, by next week he'll be saying that we don't need any regulations on guns at all and, that the kids in Parkland need to "suck it up". Should be good for the Dems in the midterms.
No, he is a pro-russian putin tool.
Duke is a Republican because that's the only party he was able to win election in, and he's quite happy that Trump is our new Fuhrer.
You also take comfort with his being a Putin puppet and that sure aint pro-American.
Isn't it "funny" how all these fascist/racist "Democrats" of the distant past all found refuge in today's Republican party?
The david duke that just ran as a republican and praised trump for his racist views?
The same President that was a Democrat and ran as a Republican?
/s
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Flagged for going off topic in a major way.
Maybe you'd be more happy in Russia since you seem to be shilling for it most of the time. Was it you (or someone just like) who claimed this country was founded on the idea of the "Sovereignty of the Individual?" You might want to actually read the Constitution instead of just making up what you think it says. There is no such concept, much less actual wording, in that document that even suggests that this country operates under that idea which is really just a fancy way of saying anarchy.
CNN: Trump 'berated' Hicks after House Intel testimony
Erin Burnett reported one of Trump’s “close allies” told CNN that Trump asked Hicks after her testimony “how she could be so stupid.”
“Apparently, that was the final straw for Hope Hicks,” Burnett said.
Hicks, one of Trump’s closest advisers, announced her resignation from the White House Wednesday.
Earlier today, the White House used the New York Times to spread disinformation about Hope Hicks' resignation. The cover story was that it had "nothing to do" with her questioning by Congress and that her decision to leave had been made "months" earlier. Then CNN said "weeks."
Now CNN is reporting that Hicks made the decision to resign after she was berated by President Trump for her *truthful* testimony—under penalty of prosecution—before Congress. She testified—*truthfully*—that on occasion she had told "white lies" to protect Trump's interests.
"How could you be so *stupid*?" Trump is reported to have said to her—apparently with such force and a desire to confront that, per CNN, it was the proximate (if admittedly not the only) cause of her resigning her position. If true, this puts Trump in *new legal jeopardy*.
In context, there is simply no reasonable possibility that Trump was berating Hicks for (in his view) *lying*. You wouldn't say "How could you be so *stupid*?" if what you were doing was complaining that someone had maliciously made up a lie about—well—*lying to protect you*.
No—what Trump was doing was berating a subordinate who he knew was a witness in a pending criminal investigation (an investigation in which he is a target) for *telling the truth* about having had to lie for him on occasion. This is a textbook case of felony witness tampering.
Trump's intent is established by his knowledge that Hicks was a potential witness against him; that her truthful testimony hurt him; his tone and words in speaking to Hicks; by the obvious—powerful—effect their force and anger had on her; and by bare common sense as to motive.
It's further established by it being a modus operandi for Trump to contact witnesses in the case against him and express whatever his feelings were/are about their cooperation/non-cooperation in an investigation in which he was/is a target. Like telling Flynn to "stay strong."
I've worked witness tampering cases. I never represented a poor person who wouldn't be charged with Witness Tampering on these facts—in large part because of the position of power Trump wields with respect to Hicks and his words/tone in speaking to her of *truthful* testimony.
Remember: Trump has been *instructed* by an *army of top criminal defense attorneys* to *never* have *any* conversation with *any* witness in the pending federal criminal investigation now targeting him. He *literally shouldn't have opened his mouth* to Hicks on this topic.
In this context, expect Mueller to now speak to Hicks a second time, as she now becomes a witness in a new Obstruction and/or Witness Tampering investigation ("intimidation" sub-clause). I said long ago that if Trump didn't restrain himself he'd dig a deeper hole—and he has.
Trump's way ahead of you. This was a pre-arranged "resignation" that will take her out of the limelight and allow her to advise him as a non government employee. I have this information from a credible and trusted source. Looks like the liberals are foolishly chasing yet another rabbit down into that hidey hole.
You'll believe anything, wontcha.
because advise from a non government employee is better than advise from a gov employee even if its the same person....??? What ???
And the White House is saying that is false information. Even the most insignificant statement anyone says is subject to getting in trouble with the Mueller Witch Hunt. They can't find anything else. All the charges they have up to this point have nothing to do with Trump. I can't wait until all this over so we can get down to the real investigations.
Be careful what you wish for six.
Trump is the one thing they all have in common is he not?
Where there is smoke, there is usually fire,
jest sayin'............
Trump's not going anywhere soon, neither is Mueller.
We had to sit and wait for sevens years of Watergate investigations which ended in a whimper...........
Buy some popcorn.
Ah yes, those unnamed sources that we hear the right complaining about on a daily basis.
I need to do some chores and watch the news.
Locked till the morning folks...
Thanks
She should have resigned over the Porter scandal, but not only does she have really bad taste in men but really bad taste in her choice of job going along when she knew she was totally out of her depth.
Trump does not hire the best people. Look at the entire list of the following departures, the entire list of those who were denied a position or pulled their bid for a position, and finally look at the number of indictments and guilty pleas from Trump's closest campaign advisors and those who worked on his campaign.
This whole mess is not a "Nothing Burger" it is a Triple Big Mac with Cheese and Quadruple toppings.
Her hours working for the Trump organization in 2014 killed her 6 relationship with her fiancé.
Then when she became the campaign press secretary she dated Cory Lewandowski while he was still married........
6 year relationship...
I can believe that hope has left the White House. End of days for those folks and their political careers.
That's what you said last year. When Mueller report comes out and clears Trump and his associates of any and all wrong doing, we'll be sure to gloat and keep reminding the left wing whack jobs of how wrong they were.
Good Lord, Greg, several of Trumps "associates" have already been indicted.
The best Trump can hope for is that he gets treated like Hillary and gets chastised for stupidity and sloppiness.
Oh, the hard fall you're heading for, Greg.
What do those indictments have to do with Trump or his campaign?
I have been saying since the start that I will wait to see what the investigation ultimately reveals and not jump to any conclusions. That is still my position, but by this point it is essentially impossible to suggest that Trump will come out of this unscathed. Even if he was totally innocent of any collusion, he has fucked up the handling of this situation from the get go and very likely placed himself in legal trouble by being such a fucking idiot and trying to intimidate/influence persons of interest, the investigation and those conducting it.
Because either Trump knew about what was going on with them, or he is so goddamn incompetent that he is unfit for office.
You must have thought Obama was incompetent. He claimed he knew nothing about the IRS holding up TeaParty applications. How knew nothing about Fast and Furious (at least not until they were reported in the news). He claimed he knew nothing about Clinton's private server and email even though he sent several email to her account on it under an assomued name. That all seems pretty incompetent to me .
I happened to listen to that last night and I thought Maddow did a great job explaining why criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice will be one of the likely charges against Trump, Hicks and their co-conspirators. Even before the public learned why Corallo had resigned it was already clear that Trump had significant exposure over his role in fabricating a false story about Don Jr's meeting with Russian agents, but the fact that Corallo resigned because he didn't want to be part of that conspiracy to bury evidence pretty much made Mueller's case against Trump.......particularly since Corallo made contemporaneous documentation and statements to others.
Yeah, she and her team are very thorough and very analytical.
I watch Rachel just for the sarcasm. Her body language is hilarious.
She needs to learn not to be so partisan because last night she let her personal views color what she was saying just a bit too much.
Last night? Try every night her show is on the air!
Why do you care when you are watching Hannity?
She uses too many big words and complicated concepts for conservatives.
I am? Feeling that's news to me! I haven't seen his show since I finished my stay with my sister and brother in law after my surgery.
Now that's a really funny one!!!! LOL
Apparently, Sessions wanted this job so badly that he's going to force the Shitbag to fire him before he knuckles under. After all the lying he did under oath as to all his contacts with Russians during the campaign in his confirmation hearings, he knew he'd have to recuse himself from the investigation. He dined last night with both Rosenstein and the Solicitor General (whose name I can't recall) and made sure a picture of it would make the national news. It is widely taken to be a brush off signal to Trump.
Oh, yeah. This was a prearranged resignation that "just happened" to occur the day after Hopie admitted to lying to cover for her Mar-a-LagoShitbag boss. If that were to be true we'd have to believe that no one in the WH would have recognized what it was going to look like and quickly postponed the announcement, especially since it's not an immediate (or we're told) departure. So it was yet another massively bungled event in this massively bungling WH or it wasn't prearranged at all. That makes it much more likely, as someone reported above, that Shitbag blew his top and it was Hicks's decision to announce it right now, whether it was to have been later or not.
That is a pretty accurate assessment of the situation. Either this is a direct result of what she said in that hearing, and what Trump reportedly said to her afterwards, or this is just another total fuck up on the part of the WH when it comes to something that should be easy to handle. Either way, it looks bad no matter what.
I'm locking this for the evening.
IF I open it tomorrow
I will be making a better effort to keep it on topic, report offenders or lock it permanently.
this wasn't intended to degenerate into a slap fight about which political party is more racist.....
have a good night.
I wonder how many conservative heads would have exploded in outrage if it were President Obama's communication director admitting to telling "little white lies" on Obama's behalf.
Explode?
Nah---we probably all would have had heart attacks had such a thing ever actually been admitted!!!
You mean, "happened".
I wrote what I meant, as usual.
No need to "try" and interpret what YOU "think" I mean--just read my posts.
How can you ADMIT to something that never HAPPENED? You make this way too easy.
Who?
Hope HIcks, the gal donny was humping behind his wife's back... You know, like stormy daniels...and....and.....and.......and........and........and....... Well, you get the idea.
Maybe she quit when she did the math.
Daniels $130,000 for one or two nights and a couple phone calls.
Hicks - $92,000 for one year on the campaign and $179,700 for 13 months in the WH.
/s
well I suppose former NV members are very lucky ,
their previous comment histories are only available in Chinese it would appear.........
Perrie please feel free to delete as off topic also.........