特朗普又失一大员 且是美女

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Hope Hicks, one of U.S. President Donald Trump's longest-serving and most trusted aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director, a blow to the president, whose inner circle has been depleted by firings and clouded by scandal.

The White House announced she was leaving a day after Hicks, 29, spent nine hours in a closed hearing of the House of Representatives intelligence committee on its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said Hicks' decision to leave was not related to her appearance before the panel, where lawmakers said she declined to answer questions about the administration. Trump called her "a truly great person" whom he would miss having at his side.

The Republican president has presided over an extraordinary amount of turnover among senior staff in his White House since entering office more than a year ago.

His first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, stepped down last summer, and his chief strategist, Steve Bannon was fired. Four people, including Hicks and former press secretary Sean Spicer, who also resigned, have held the communications director mantle.

Worked closely with Trump
Hicks did more than steer messaging. She was a constant presence in Trump's orbit, sitting in on interviews with reporters and quietly steering press-related policy while maintaining a behind-the-scenes, low-but-glamorous-profile.

Hicks managed in many ways to stay above the fray of staff backbiting and palace intrigue that has characterized the Trump White House, but her proximity to the president has made her a central figure in some of its more dramatic moments.

Hicks was one of the first people hired by then-businessman Trump when he began his campaign for the presidency and was his campaign spokesperson. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)

Lawmakers said Hicks, Trump's spokesperson during the 2016 election campaign, did answer House panel questions on Tuesday about her time with the campaign, and the transition months between the November election and the January 2017 inauguration.

Hicks' exact departure was unclear but is expected to be sometime over the next few weeks.

Hicks was caught up in a controversy surrounding former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, whom she had been dating. She worked to defend him when he faced allegations of domestic abuse against his two former wives. Porter was ultimately forced to resign.

A one-time aide to Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and with no previous experience in politics, Hicks was one of the first people hired by the then-New York businessman when he began his campaign for the presidency.

An aide said she had approached the president and told him she wanted to leave so she could start exploring opportunities outside of the White House.

Questioned in Russia probe
Robert Trout, a lawyer for Hicks who has represented her in the Russia investigation, declined comment.

Among the issues Hicks declined to discuss with the House panel was her part in drafting a statement in July 2017 misrepresenting a July 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., other Trump associates and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer.

Trump Jr. said initially the meeting was about adoptions, but said later that Veselnitskaya had promised damaging information about his father's election campaign opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Hicks arrives to meet behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia ran a program of hacking and disinformation to interfere in the elections and it later developed into an attempt to help Republican candidate Trump defeat Clinton. On Feb. 16, a U.S. special counsel indicted 13 Russians and three companies on charges of tampering in the campaign.

Russia denies interfering in the U.S. election and Trump denies any collusion between his campaign and Moscow officials.

'I will miss having her by my side': Trump
Hicks took over as communications director in September after the difficult, 11-day tenure of Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired. She is credited behind the scenes for stabilizing the communications operation.

"Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years. She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person," Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

Hicks took over as communications director in September and is credited behind the scenes for stabilizing the communications operation. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

"I will miss having her by my side but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future."

Hicks said in her own statement that "there are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump. I wish the president and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country."

 

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Hope Hicks leaves the Capitol after a nine-hour closed-door session with the House Intelligence Committee Feb 27.

Photograph by Leah Millis / Reuters

 

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WH communications director Hope Hicks and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

https://qz.com/1182382/donald-trump...rs-finally-a-photo-as-the-rumors-describe-it/

 

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Look at this picture. It includes some people, like former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who were never at the White House, but who unceremoniously left Trump's orbit. Others didn't work directly at the White House, but have featured prominently in the Trump administration. And Manafort, by the way, has been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with money laundering and filing false foreign lobbying reports. See if you can name all of the people -- each one of whom has left the White House or Trump's orbit -- in it. (Confession: I couldn't):

下一个是Jeff Sessions?

 

[草头将军]

一周前还说她的权势仅次于总统，高于副总统和幕僚长

 

[ottawa_tj]

There is no Hope in this administration.

 

[一二三]

美女也不能乱搞男女关系啊

 

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这个不能放前台,只能做后宫.

 

[草头将军]

美女也不能乱搞男女关系啊

这个不能放前台,只能做后宫.

两位是不是还看见白胳膊和私生子了？

 

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一周前还说她的权势仅次于总统，高于副总统和幕僚长

下一位走人的可能就是幕僚长或者Jeff Sessions了。

 

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http://time.com/5180300/hope-hicks-resigning-donald-trump/

Why Hope Hicks Resigning Matters

By Philip Elliott
9:44 PM EST

Donald Trump wanted Hope Hicks close.

When the new President and his team moved into the White House last January, he installed his long-serving press aide in a tiny, windowless room directly outside the Oval Office. He could shout at her to bring him the latest news clips and polls. He could summon her to his private office next door to watch television coverage. Above all, he felt, he could trust her — she was a rare, reassuring support in his new digs in a new city filled with newcomers he didn’t know well.

Which is why the news of Hope Hicks resigning, which broke late Feb. 28, comes as such a blow to the Trump White House. “I cannot over-state how important Hope is to keeping this thing together,” one West Wing official said. “She really is one of the only people who has the President’s trust and respect.” In a building riven with suspicion and infighting, presided over by an unpredictable, some would say irrational, boss, a key pillar of support is leaving.

Hicks, a 29-year-old former model who had zero political experience before Trump hired her to be a one-woman communications shop for his campaign, enjoyed influence over Trump far beyond the typical White House communications director. She weighed in on foreign policy, domestic politics, media strategy and Cabinet management. She had a greater ability to steer Trump than either of his chiefs of staff so far, and could read him in ways others on staff could not. Hicks was perhaps the only person outside the Trump family who could, from time to time, control the volatile President.

“She’s the Trump whisperer. When I need the President to take something seriously, I ask Hope to bring it up,” a second White House official said. “The President listens if she brings it up. He knows she doesn’t waste his time.”

That’s not to say she was widely liked inside the West Wing. She could have sharp elbows and was a master of the internal knife-fight. She was young for the job and came without a pedigreed political resume.

Yet what she lacked in experience she more than made up for it with the one currency Trump prizes above others: loyalty.

White House chief of staffs Reince Priebus and John Kelly each had been surprised to walk by the Oval Office to see the President speaking with reporters. She was a more powerful gatekeeper than the nominal bosses, a perk of being a media-obsessed President’s chief media strategist. Fights with Hicks seldom were won by anyone other than Hicks herself. She reported directly to the President and took her orders from him alone. Like the President, she didn’t care about precedent or protocol.

Her exit is the highest profile from Trump’s inner circle, and it has implications for the whole of government.

Trump relied on Hicks constantly. Part of it was that she was a welcome reminder of his unlikely campaign that saw a never-before-politician beat better prepared rivals for the Republicans’ presidential nomination and then bested the superior machinery of the Clinton campaign. Part of it was that she never crowded him out of the spotlight. She was the rare White House communications director who didn’t give on-the-record interviews, appear on cable news or Sunday shows, and shunned attention. In fact, when GQ wrote a profile of her in 2016, she declined the interview request and instead arranged for Trump to tell her story while she listened in.

And part of it was that she didn’t try to make Trump into anything than what he is. She didn’t confiscate his Twitter account. She didn’t try to bend him to be a more traditional leader. She didn’t force him to do anything he didn’t want to do. Much of the time she enabled his worst qualities, only occasionally boxing out his worst instincts. On the rare days she told the President no, he listened.

White House officials said Hicks’ last day was still being determined. A search for a replacement hasn’t yet begun. She had begun telling senior West Wing officials in recent days but hadn’t yet briefed the 40 or so aides who work under her in the press, speechwriting, research and social media departments when the news broke in the New York Times.

The role of communications director has been a cursed one with this Administration, and Hicks formally took the role only after four others had been announced and dismissed. The first choice, Jason Miller, bowed out amid reports of a child conceived with his mistress. Press secretary Sean Spicer twice wore the hat on an interim basis. Michael Dubke did the job for 88 days, two days shy of being forced to comply with ethics rules. And Anthony Scaramucci did it for 10 days before being shown the door for impolitic and profane comments about colleagues.

Hicks’ ride in the White House has been anything but smooth. Initially tapped for the role of director of strategic communications — a title that largely entailed handling press requests involving the President or his family — she was elevated to the top communications role during the summer. Yet every controversy and potential crisis ran through her cell phone, which was constantly affixed to her ear whether she was in the White House, on the town, traveling with the President for campaign rallies or jetting around the globe.

It was on one of those foreign trips that she helped write a now-problematic statement about Trump officials’ meeting with Russians. That conversation was central to her nine-hour meeting with House lawmakers on Tuesday and could prove significant for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Congressional officials say the grilling left Hicks visibly shaken, although White House officials cautioned against linking her trip to Capitol Hill with her decision to exit.

She was also at the center of a botched response to allegations that a top White House official faced accusations he abused his two ex-wives. Hicks was dating the aide, White House staff secretary Rob Porter, according to multiple White House sources familiar with the relationship.

Hicks will remain influential even after she leaves the White House. If Trump trusts someone, he will phone them for counsel even after they’ve officially stepped out of their role. Trump himself nodded to that in a statement praising Hick’s tenure with him.

“I will miss having her by my side, but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood,” he said. “I am sure we will work together again in the future.”

There’s little chance she’s won’t be a key player in the President’s re-election bid in 2020.

 

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白宫通讯联络办公室主任辞职
2018-03-01 09:38 来源： 新华网


　　新华社华盛顿２月２８日电（记者刘阳）白宫通讯联络办公室主任霍普·希克斯２８日宣布辞职，称希望“探索白宫以外的机会”。

　　针对希克斯辞职，美国总统特朗普说：“当她向我表示希望寻找其他机会的时候，我完全理解。我坚信我们以后还会共事。”

　　希克斯预计将在未来数周内离开白宫。

　　希克斯在２７日曾前往国会就俄罗斯涉嫌２０１６年干预美国大选作证，承认在特朗普政府工作期间有时需要说“善意的谎言”。

　　希克斯现年２９岁，在特朗普参选总统之前就进入特朗普团队，迄今已为其工作３年，是特朗普手下任职时间最长的助理。她于去年成为特朗普政府第三任白宫通讯联络办公室主任。