Hope Hicks Set to Appear Before House Intel Committee After Month-Long Delay
Hope Hicks is one of Trump’s closest political aides, and is supposed to appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Hicks was supposed to testify in January but it was postponed for the White House counsel and committee to sort out her testimony. Hicks has been a close friend of President Trump for a long time-she ran public relations at the Trump Organization until 2015, making her an important witness. She will most likely be questioned if she knows of any contact between Trump campaign members, but also will be asked if she knows about the White House’s first statement that was written on Air Force One after press reports of a June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russians. People want to know what Trump had to say in the process, and maybe even Hicks’s, she was accused of saying that emails written about the meeting by Donald Trump Jr. “will never get out,” which was defended by her lawyer saying that was “completely false.” Hicks has already been questioned by the special counsel and the Senate Intelligence Committee according to multiple sources. There have been other people interviewed, but a few of them have refused to answer questions to slow the process.
The article was written by Olivia Victoria Gazis for CBS News on February 26, 2018. The article is important because it shows that there is still question if Russia interfered with the election, even after a year and a half. It shows that people still don’t trust the president because they don’t think he should have won the election or did it by himself (with the help of the Electoral College). The situation going on here can be compared to US influence in elections in other countries, like in Italy in 1948, Americans, who hated Communism, helped against the Communist candidate. This has been proved to be true, but the Trump investigation is still going, showing that there is still uncertainty about foreign aid.
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