Hope Hicks may get off easy, considering she was responsible for author Michael ‘Fire and Fury’ Wolff getting WH access, as well as her producing vacuous and even obstructive writing for Lord Dampnut. OTOH she may have been the last actual close Trump loyalist not related to him by blood or marriage.
The administration has not named a successor to Hicks, but Mercedes Schlapp, the White House’s director of strategic communications, has been discussed as a possible replacement, according to several people familiar with those discussions.
During a closed-door hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, White House communications director and longtime Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks on Tuesday acknowledged she occasionally lies for the president, the New York Times reports.
Hicks refused to answer questions Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, as well as her questions about her role in drafting a misleading statement about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top Trump campaign aides and emissaries of the Russian government.
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“If the sanctions don’t work, we’ll have to go to Phase 2,” Trump replied. “Phase 2 may be a very rough thing. May be very, very unfortunate for the world.”
In other words: If North Korea does not meet my demands, I will deliberately inflict something “very, very unfortunate” on the entire world.
This might sound like a maniacal threat fit for a Bond villain. But if launching a globally devastating war is the only way to preempt the possibility of a globally devastating war, then what choice do we really have?
How could we possibly trust that crackpot dictator with the nuclear weapon? I mean, have you heard the things he says?
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