3/21/19: President Twitter Thumbs drains another bitter cup of reality when he learns Hope Hicks, once affectionately referred to as “Hopee” and “the Hopester,” has agreed to turn over documents to Congress and cooperate with investigators.
Her hometown newspaper explains why this could matter:
Greenwich [Connecticut] native
Hope Hicks has agreed to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee’s
wide-ranging probe of alleged misconduct in office by President Donald Trump.
Hicks was as close to Trump
as any of his deputies [emphasis added], both prior to the election and
afterwards up to her departure from the White House last year. The
document request sent to Hicks earlier this month ran four pages long, asking
the 30-year-old former model and Greenwich High School lacrosse team co-captain
for information on a multitude of controversies involving her former boss.
Most crucial, perhaps, will be
what Hicks reveals about a wildly misleading letter drafted in the summer of
2017, with her involvement, and that of President Trump and his son, Don Jr.
That letter was designed to obscure the purpose of the infamous June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officers and agents of the Russian Federation. The meeting that looks and feels, and smells, and if you listen, sounds exactly like COLLUSION/CONSPIRACY.
A false letter drafted to obscure the purpose would be the very stuff of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
(We are capitalizing like President Trump when he TWEETS.)
There are reports that Hicks kept a detailed diary of her work in the Trump White House, which
could prove valuable for investigators. It is also rumored that Hicks,
sometimes described as Trump’s “surrogate daughter,” has been offered as much
as $10 million to write a tell-all.
 |
Ms. Hicks leaving Air Force One. |
*
IN THE WAKE of President Trump’s most recent comments about Sen. John McCain, who died last August, fellow Vietnam War combat veteran and former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerry calls on Donald to get his feet x-rayed and “let’s see those bone spurs.”
During a speech at the Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio yesterday, Trump revisited his feud with McCain. “I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted which as president I had to approve,” Trump noted, as if he deserved credit for magnanimity. Then, he added, “I don’t care about this, I didn’t get [a] thank you, that’s OK.”
A “thank you” for what? Displaying common decency?
Current Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson called the president’s
comments “deplorable.” Because Isakson still has a soul.
No comments:
Post a Comment