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Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director

"Weakly Address: 2/10/18"

By MAGGIE HABERMAN FEB. 28, 2018

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Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job.

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Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump FEB. 27, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/hope-hicks-house-intelligence-committee-testimony.html

F.B.I. Warned Hope Hicks About Emails From Russian Operatives DEC. 8, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/us/politics/hope-hicks-russia-trump-fbi.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/hope-hicks-resign-communications-director.html

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Hope Hicks, Trump's longest-serving aide, resigns from the White House
Los Angeles Times 46m ago
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-hope-hicks-resigns-20180228-story.html

Her resignation, if not related to her actual Mueller appearance, is likely at least related to the Russian
scandal Trump, and many around him, became embroiled in. And to Mueller's investigation into that.

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NYT [ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/politics/trump-hicks-porter.html ]: Trump defends Hicks as Porter fallout continues
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/politics/trump-defends-hope-hicks/index.html

Hope Hicks emerges unscathed as the White House battles fallout from the domestic abuse controversy
Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, has come out relatively untainted as President Donald Trump's administration continues dealing with the abrupt exit of two key aides accused of domestic abuse.
The development comes amid reports that Hicks was instrumental in crafting White House chief of staff John Kelly's response to allegations against Rob Porter, the former staff secretary whom Hicks is said to be dating.
While Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn have been roped into the controversy after reports surfaced that both men were aware of the allegations since last year, Hicks maintains strong support from Trump and other cabinet members.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-emerges-unscathed-amid-white-house-domestic-abuse-controversy-2018-2