Hope Hicks, one of President Trump’s closest aides and advisers, met Tuesday with House investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. But she refused to answer any questions about events and conversations that occurred since Trump took office, according to a Republican lawmaker who was there during the proceedings.
Emerging from the meeting with Hicks, panel member Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) said that “there are some questions that she’s not going to answer,” adding that Hicks was not willing to detail anything from the inauguration forward.
Her refusal to answer questions about the Trump administration’s tenure suggests lawmakers will have a difficult time learning her side of a key story: the drafting of a misleading statement to explain an unorthodox meeting at Trump Tower between top Trump campaign members and a Russian lawyer.
According to at least one Democrat on the committee to say "We got Bannoned."
However at least one interesting tidbit was revealed during the testimony:
Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.
But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.
The exchange came during more than eight hours of private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Ms. Hicks declined to answer similar questions about other figures from the Trump campaign or the White House.
One has to wonder if she means "white lies" in the sense that they were harmless in nature, or just that they were okay because white people were telling them.?
Once again while I want as many investigations as possible looking into the Russia issue, I simply do not trust this House committee to actually get to any truth.
In fact I heard that they have already started writing their final report with several witnesses still to see. (Well to be honest it's the Democrats who want to see many more witnesses, as far as the Republicans are concerned Hicks was the last one.)
I am actually more interested in what Hicks might tell Mueller.
And I imagine that Mueller will not allow little miss orange stained thighs to pull any of these shenanigans on him or his investigators.
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