Hope Hicks has been instructed by the White House not to comply with a House Judiciary Committee subpoena, but the former aide to President Trump has begun turning over some of the requested documents, Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said Tuesday.
The documents she is producing are related to the Trump campaign, according to Nadler, and therefore not necessarily in defiance of the White House’s instruction, which reportedly objected to her production of documents from her time in the administration.
In a Tuesday letter to Nadler, Hicks’ attorney Robert Trout wrote that Hicks would only be able to turn over campaign documents she already had in her possession because the White House and Presidential Transition Team both claimed that documents were under their control, not Hicks’ control.
Nonetheless, Nadler thanked Hicks for “that show of good faith” in a statement Tuesday, that still stressed that, “Federal law makes clear that the documents we requested—documents that left the White House months ago—are no longer covered by executive privilege, if they ever were.”
Additionally, Ann Donaldson — a former aide to ex-White House Counsel Don McGahn who copious notes that played prominently in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report — has also been instructed by the White House not to comply with the committee’s document subpoena, Nadler said.
“The President has no lawful basis for preventing these witnesses from complying with our request,” Nadler said. “We will continue to seek reasonable accommodation on these and all our discovery requests and intend to press these issues when we obtain the testimony of both Ms. Hicks and Ms. Donaldson.”
Next impeachable act of obstruction.
Pelosi, if not Him, Who? And if not Now, When?
Did I read that right that Hicks is turning over some docs? Does a trickle turn into a flood? All it would take is for a few key players to move away from Trump and cooperate with Nadler to get the public hearings process going (and I don’t mean the John Dean hearing. I did see him speak once in person. Nice guy. Thoughtful, but we’re discussing Trump, not impeaching Nixon).
Seems it may be that Hope Hicks doesn’t want to take the fall for tRump. Who would have guessed that she has a spine and an at least semi-functional moral compass.
Sternly worded letters.
Yeah, like that’s going to leave marks.
Make it stick, Nadler. Make it stick. Put some teeth into this. The time for playing nicely is past.