Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

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.

She also pointedly and repeatedly declined to answer questions about the presidential transition or her time in the White House, lawmakers who sat in on the testimony said, telling investigators that she had been asked by the White House to discuss only her time on the campaign. They added that she did not formally invoke executive privilege.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/hope-hicks-house-intelligence-committee-testimony.html

[Stallion]

1. Sounds Racist

[Leghorn21]

2. Ha!! - -Also, there are white lies and there are LITTLE white lies, eh?

Which is it, Ms. Hicks?

[groundloop]

3. Nope, Lies are colorblind. They're just LIES.

So basically what she's saying, when you cut through the bullshit, is that 45* requires her to LIE for him. This speaks volumes about what sort of individual is currently occupying the White House.

I got fired from my previous job because I wouldn't concoct a lie to cover for the owners' bad decision. Damn I hate bastards who treat people like that.

[Leghorn21]

4. No argument here, loop, and so awfully sorry you got fired for...you know,

TELLING THE TRUTH

[duhneece]

36. And who decides which lies are ok...

and which lies are not?

[UpInArms]

5. A lie is a lie is a lie

She admits she is a liar and she knows she is lying ... no way to trust a thing that escapes her lips

[lagomorph777]

31. Is she deliberately spoiling her own credibility,

so when she completely trashes Trump in her testimony to Mueller, nobody will believe her?

[J_William_Ryan]

6. All Republicans do is lie.

It’s as if it’s in their DNA.

[TryLogic]

12. Yes

[bunt homer]

7. For a President, Ms Hick, there ARE NO WHITE LIES, LITTLE or BIG

Misspelling of surname deliberate!

[Maeve]

8. A lie's a lie. Dressin' it in white don't help it.

Last edited Wed Feb 28, 2018, 09:13 AM - Edit history (1)

Edited to get the quote exactly--Marjorie Main in "Meet Me In St Louis"

[BigmanPigman]

9. She probably thinks that her "little lies"

don't matter since everyone around her has been telling bigger ones and haven't faced any repercussions so why should she be any different. She lives and works in an atmosphere of mendacity. This is normal procedure.

[MBS]

30. good insight.n/t

[MFM008]

10. He brings everyone

Down to his sub-scummy level.....

[magicarpet]

28. So true....

.... he besmirches the country he was appointed to run. We can only hope we can unscramble the mess he has made.

[TryLogic]

11. Discourteous question: Who is Hope Hicks' father? Trump?

She has been with him a long time.

[FakeNoose]

33. She worked for Ivanka, then Ivanka "loaned" her to the campaign

Hope Hicks became an early employee of Trump's campaign but it wasn't until he started making stump speeches. Maybe December 2015 or January 2016. It was just Trump, Hicks and Lewandowski at first, flying out for a speech and returning immediately to NYC each time. There's more info about her in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury."

Wolff seems to think Hicks is a loyal employee but not politically motivated on her own. She was a maybe Dem before she started working for him. Also not too bright, but she knows how to keep quiet and that's a valued trait in the Trump White House.

[dlk]

13. Hubris Will be Hick's Undoing

She's comes from a rarified world but everyone who enters Trump's orbit gets dirtied. Her daddy's money & connections may not save her.

[murielm99]

14. White lies?

No, those pants don't make you look fat, Mr. Trump.

That kind of white lie?

[czarjak]

15. Oh, Mr. President, youre such a stud?

[NBachers]

16. She just . . . "sort of" lies.

[Hekate]

17. "Hope, do these tennis shorts make my butt look fat?" That kind of white lie?

Sure.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. ...

[joshdawg]

18. Lock'em all up!

Orangeshitgibbon's administration is so crooked, no one in it can walk a straight line.
Lock'em ALL up!

[Rhiannon12866]

20. I know! What is the point of having a government that lies to the people??

It sounds like some dictatorship somewhere that we'd hope would be overthrown! It truly boggles the mind that we have fallen so far, so fast...

[Thekaspervote]

21. Shes the kind of woman that makes me ashamed of my sex

A pretty young woman, probably smart but choosing to use nothing more than the age old feminine wilds. Stupid written all over it!

[hamsterjill]

32. I totally agree.

Makes me furious when I see young women doing this. Women have fought long and hard to get away from this stereotypical sell out.

[chelsea0011]

22. Little Lies...Fleetwood Mac

[duforsure]

23. If people get out the vote

All investigations from the Democrats with control will stop the charade the republicans are running now. Its up to the voters what they want. National Security ignored now, election fraud ignored now, election interference ignored now, and more.

[truthisfreedom]

24. Hope Hicks is a 5 at best.

Just sayin'.

[noneof_theabove]

25. No proof of deep past....

BUT...

Cadet Bone Spurs became a pathological liar the day he turned 18.

Can't vouch for what his parents did but I had my mouth washed out with Lava Soap [best for greasy hands] a couple of times and learned the lesson of actions and consequences before I got in school.

[sweetroxie]

26. My mother used Palmolive

equally disgusting.

[OriginalGeek]

34. my daycare used dish soap but I don't remember what brand

I got it so much I now like the taste of soapy cilantro. Suck and THAT you fascist daycare assholes!

Oh and I didn't learn a fucking thing. I hope their soap was expensive lol.

[Vinca]

27. So she irons his suits (on him), lies for him . . . what else, dear?

It does seem she's the only one who is indispensable.

[SayItLoud]

29. FBI doesn't care

If your lies are purple, green or white.

[riversedge]

35. some one on twitter said they were Orange lies. te he

[hamsterjill]

37. Just breaking on CNN

That she will resign in the coming weeks. No link yet.

[wishstar]

38. She is among the Trump staffers who publicly claimed there were no contacts with Russians

when she was clearly lying because we now know she was in the email chains involving Carter Page and others who had Russian meetings