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11-23-2017, 09:53 AM
Hope Hicks’ time in the barrel may come soon. Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly aiming to interview the White House communications director as part of the Trump-Russia investigation.
With a senior Russian official now stating that the Trump campaign had interacted with Russians, what was the Trump campaign to do? For Hicks, it was easy. Go with a blanket denial. “It never happened,” she said. “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
That was a wildly false statement. There were many communications—with Russians and foreign entities, including WikiLeaks, which dumped the Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence.
Hicks is not just any witness. She is part of the cover-up.
Trump’s top advisers—Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort—met privately with a Russian emissary who they were told would provide them dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of a secret Russian government plan to help Trump. George Papadopoulos spent months in contact with Russians trying to arrange first a meeting between Trump and Putin and then a back-channel communication with Putin’s office. Carter Page, another campaign foreign policy adviser, traveled to Moscow in July 2016 to give a speech there and, while in the Russian capital, had contact with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Andrey Baranov, the head of investor relations at Rosneft, a state-owned oil company.
Note to Robert Mueller: Hope Hicks Was Part of the Cover-Up – Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/note-to-robert-mueller-hope-hicks-was-part-of-the-cover-up/#)
With a senior Russian official now stating that the Trump campaign had interacted with Russians, what was the Trump campaign to do? For Hicks, it was easy. Go with a blanket denial. “It never happened,” she said. “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
That was a wildly false statement. There were many communications—with Russians and foreign entities, including WikiLeaks, which dumped the Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence.
Hicks is not just any witness. She is part of the cover-up.
Trump’s top advisers—Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort—met privately with a Russian emissary who they were told would provide them dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of a secret Russian government plan to help Trump. George Papadopoulos spent months in contact with Russians trying to arrange first a meeting between Trump and Putin and then a back-channel communication with Putin’s office. Carter Page, another campaign foreign policy adviser, traveled to Moscow in July 2016 to give a speech there and, while in the Russian capital, had contact with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Andrey Baranov, the head of investor relations at Rosneft, a state-owned oil company.
Note to Robert Mueller: Hope Hicks Was Part of the Cover-Up – Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/note-to-robert-mueller-hope-hicks-was-part-of-the-cover-up/#)