White House communications director Hope Hicks to resign

By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 5:14pm |

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving and closest political advisers, said Wednesday that she is leaving the administration sometime in the next few weeks.

Hicks, 29, began working for Trump before he announced his candidacy and has been a constant at his side over the past three years, managing his public image and advising him on policy and other matters. A political neophyte, Hicks exerted extraordinary influence in the White House as arguably Trump’s most trusted aide.

The announcement of her departure comes one day after Hicks testified for a full day Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee in its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Her exit was first reported by the New York Times.

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Philip Rucker, WaPo, a few minutes ago.

Wondering if she was advised by counsel to get out now.

URL:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-communications-director-hope-hicks-to-resign/2018/02/28/13760a8c-1ccf-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.3d4773260a13

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News from the deck of the Titanic.

by moat on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 7:33pm

The Titanic was a great ship moat. The greatest ship ever made. And everyone says it had the greatest deck.

by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 7:38pm

There were more people on that deck at certain times than showed up for Obama's inauguration.
And don't get me started on the lifeboats. Huge lifeboats filled with capacity crowds.

by moat on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 8:13pm

STORMY DANIELS to take over for Hope Hicks as Communications Director.

Breaking news first on Dag...!!!!

by NCD on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 9:20pm

Stormy knows communications. How else could she have reported that Trump was intelligent in conversation on their first date?

by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 9:36pm

No,no,no! fake news! The Scaramouche! Something for the ladies this time! Blow the damn #Metoo right outta da water. I got your AR-15 right here. Communicate? Can he evah!

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 9:54pm

Fun fact: Mooch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:18pm

Related administration news: CRANKY! Hope quit! Time to bully the little dweeb:

Sessions defends himself after Trump bashed him on Twitter and

Chaffetz@ Fox: Trump's Twitter-Bashing of Jeff Sessions Is 'Mind-Boggling, Almost Embarrassing'

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:04pm

and breaking, "do you love me now?"

Trump Stuns Lawmakers With Calls for Gun Control

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 42 minutes ago

In a televised meeting, President Trump embraced gun control measures long opposed by the N.R.A. and many Republicans.
“It would be so beautiful to have one bill that everyone could support,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s time that a president stepped up.”

[....] In a remarkable meeting, the president veered wildly from the N.R.A. playbook in front of giddy Democrats and stone-faced Republicans. He called for comprehensive gun control legislation that would expand background checks to weapons purchased at gun shows and on the internet, keep guns from mentally ill people, secure schools and restrict gun sales for some young adults. He even suggested a conversation on an assault weapons ban [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:31pm

to watch the gun controller in chief,with Dianne Feinstein sitting right next to him, we all got it on tape:

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:34pm

Uh, "Broad Gun Reforms" is referring to the dame next to him? Good ede. But I thought angry side progressives silenced her - what gives? Where did our money go? Pls get back to me on that.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 11:58pm

@ Redstate.org:

More Trump Gun Betrayal: “Take The Guns First” by Susan Wright

How conflicted are Trump supporters and #Resistance members, right now?

[....] standing off to the side are actual, principled conservatives, who knew that a liberal, lifelong con artist with absolutely no mooring in any sort of principle or decency could be trusted to live up to the cult-like standards of his base.

And we’re laughing our heads off.

As Caleb Howe pointed out earlier, Trump revealed his true nature today, when he took up the Democrat talking point regarding the NRA and accused Republican members of Congress today of “being afraid” of the NRA. [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 11:01pm

"Actual principled conservatives".....know Trump is a...."liberal, lifelong con artist with absolutely no mooring in any sort of principle or decency could be trusted to live up to the cult-like standards of his base. And we’re laughing our heads off."

1. there are maybe 1-2 actual principled conservative Republicans. No one at Redstate, including this writer is one of them.

2. its not the Trump base, its the Republican base, bigots and imbeciles carefully nurtured for 30 years to be angry, reprogrammable Foxbots.

by NCD on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 11:45pm

new @ NYTimes.com:

FACT CHECK

President Trump’s Contradictory, and Sometimes False, Comments About Gun Policy to Lawmakers

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 11:03pm

Think the White House is in chaos now? Just wait.

Analysis by Chris Cillizza , CNN Editor-at-large, Updated 5:31 PM ET, Thu March 1, 2018

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:49pm

An Industry Group Says the Trump Administration Is Run “Like a Bad Family Owned Small Business” — And They Love It

A contractors trade association, in an internal presentation, mocks the president while praising him for cutting back on rules meant to protect workers.

by Justin Elliot @ ProPublica.org, March 1, 11:55 a.m. EST

What does American business really think of President Donald Trump?

One candid glimpse emerges in a pair of PowerPoint presentations delivered last year by top executives of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), one of the construction industry’s national trade groups.

Trump, the presentations state, is an “autocratic leader” who regularly “humiliates [his] senior team” and is running the administration “like a bad family owned small business.” One presentation quotes the president’s statement that infrastructure should be “easy” and follows it with a rhetorical eye-roll: “Really?????”

At the same time, the presentations make clear that the industry group views Trump as a godsend for their agenda of rolling back environmental and labor regulations.

Here’s how Jeff Shoaf, the group’s longtime chief lobbyist in Washington and now chief operating officer, put it in a July 2017 PowerPoint, which appears to have been inadvertently posted on the website of the organization’s Texas chapter: [.....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:55pm

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