Report: Hope Hicks Joins Ranks Of White House Staffers Who Have Lawyered Up

White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks steps off Air Force One after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Friday, June 9, 2017. President Donald Trump is spending the... White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks steps off Air Force One after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Friday, June 9, 2017. President Donald Trump is spending the weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) MORE LESS
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White House communications director Hope Hicks recently retained a personal attorney, Politico reported late Friday, amid reports that special counsel Robert Mueller will probably seek to interview her as part of the investigation he is leading into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Politico reported, citing multiple unnamed sources familiar with the hire, that Hicks retained Robert Trout, an attorney and founder of the Washington law firm Trout Cacheris & Janis.

Neither Hicks nor Trout responded to Politico’s requests for comment.

The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with Mueller’s request, that the special counsel told the White House his team would likely seek to question six of President Donald Trump’s current and former advisers, including Hicks.

Besides Hicks, according to the Washington Post, Mueller expressed that his team would seek to question former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, White House counsel Don McGahn, White House senior associate counsel James Burnham and Josh Raffel, who runs communications for an office overseen by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

No interviews have been scheduled yet, according to the Washington Post, as Mueller’s team is waiting to review internal documents it also requested from the White House.

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  1. Hicks was the person to whom Trump dictated Don Jr.'s “response” to his Trump Tower meeting with all those Russians. So, yeah, this adds up.

    Also, why does she have a propeller on her skirt?

  2. That twenty-eight year old makes $179,000 a year. And yet, that might not be enough.

  3. Drip, drip, drip…Mueller’s going to have an interesting Rashomon tale from these clowns. The truth may even emerge after some careful analysis. But by all means, Hope, try batting your eyelashes at the interviewers. I’m sure they’ll be distracted.

  4. To quote Donnie, “have a good time.”

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    I’m interested in the potential Josh Raffel interview in particular as he works directly for Jared Kushner.

    Mueller is circling the Trump crime family like a shark drawing ever so closer and closer to el capo himself.

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