The New York Times is reporting that Hope Hicks is soon to depart from the Trump White House.
Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning.
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.
That Hope HIcks is “one of Trump’s longest serving advisers” just shows how high the rate of turnover in Trump’s White House has been. Hicks’ announced departure comes one day after she admitted to telling “white lies” in defense of Trump while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee.
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.
Hicks has reputedly been the person who acts as a Big Beautiful Wall between Trump and email or texts from the outside world, and White House staff have said they consider her Trump’s “real daughter.” It’s not clear at the moment who will next move into that plum assignment.
But it is clear that Hope Hicks, who was there during the campaign, there on the plane where Trump drafted his cover letter from the Trump Tower meeting, and there after Comey’s firing, to help deliver the ‘white lie’ of the day, will not be vanishing completely from the public eye. She’ll be back … if only to visit Robert Mueller.
Hicks is apparently staying around for a few weeks yet. No final date has been given.