Hope Hicks: “We all look like domestic terrorists now”

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Monday, Jan. 02, 2023 Monday, Jan. 02, 2023 at 12:19:54pm PST

Keep Hope (Hicks) alive. Mayhem is hard.

US President Trump's former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks sits for a closed door meeting with the House Judiciary Committee in relation to the Mueller investigation at the Capitol in Washington, DC on June 19, 2019. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Lisa Rubin @lawofruby
Among other documents released is this 1/6 text exchange between Julie Radford, Ivanka Trump's chief of staff, and Hope Hicks, where they assess a Tweet from Ivanka and Jared's sister-in-law Karlie Kloss. Hicks asks, "Does she get how royally fucked they all are now?" 2/

After a mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a top aide to Ivanka Trump and presidential adviser Hope Hicks fumed about tweets posted by supermodel Karlie Kloss, the wife of Jared Kushner’s brother.

That’s according to text messages released by the House’s Jan. 6 committee—which also reveal the aide, Julie Radford, and Hicks were worried that the insurrection would destroy their reputations.

After the riot, Kloss took to Twitter to write: “Accepting the results of a legitimate democratic election is patriotic. Refusing to do so and inciting violence is anti-American.” She also responded to a Twitter user who encouraged her to “tell your sister-in-law and brother-[in]-law” by replying, “I’ve tried.”

The newly released texts show that Hicks flagged the Kloss tweets for Radford, who responded, “Unreal. She just called me about it.”

Hicks then texted back: “I am so done” and added, “Does she get how royally fucked they all are now?”

Hicks and Radford also fretted that they would face fallout from the deadly Capitol riots.

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This is Hope HICKS texting with who I believe is Ivanka’s chief of staff Julie Radford, concerned that Trump has made them all appear to be “domestic terrorists.” Redford agrees.

“Alyssa looks like a genius,” Hicks says about Alyssa Farah Griffin’s decision to leave admin early. pic.twitter.com/lXExpESDlg
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 2, 2023

But don't take my word for it. You can review the docs and transcripts yourself here: https://t.co/hhhs3XJZW2
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) January 2, 2023

Just thinking about how trump tried to coup 200 times https://t.co/gwMopdYBYM pic.twitter.com/vCQjc7XJ5T
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 27, 2022