Top Trump aide Hope Hicks meets with January 6 committee - CNN

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Hope Hicks, who served arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump’s communications director, is having a transcribed interrogation with the House prime committee investigating the January 6, 2021, onslaught connected the US Capitol, a root acquainted with the details told CNN.

Hicks antecedently had an “informal interview” with the committee, according to 2 abstracted sources, and is being called backmost for a ceremonial interview.

CNN has reached retired to the committee and Hicks’ lawyers for comment. The quality of Tuesday’s gathering was archetypal reported by The New York Times.

Hicks told Trump helium mislaid the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and received pushback for not believing the predetermination had been stolen, according to aggregate books that came retired astir the last months successful the Trump White House.

According to reporting from “The Divider: Trump successful the White House, 2017-2021,” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Trump is quoted arsenic saying, “Well, Hope doesn’t judge successful me.”

“No, I don’t,” Hicks replied, according to the book. “Nobody’s convinced maine otherwise.”

According to a abstracted publication astir Trump’s clip successful the White House, “I Alone Can Fix It,” by Carol D. Loennig and Philip Rucker, Hicks told Trump connected November 9, 2020, “Look sir, I’m sorry,” adding “You’re not going to beryllium capable to triumph it back. There’s nary mode for you to win.”

Trump, according to the book, told Hicks she was incorrect and that, “People are telling maine astir each the evidence.”

In “Peril,” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Hicks told Trump to absorption connected his bequest alternatively of the election, and Trump reportedly said, “it’s not successful maine to bash that. I don’t attraction astir my legacy.”

And successful Michael C. Bender’s book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” Hicks is described successful 1 November gathering arsenic trying to get Trump’s squad to determination connected from the predetermination and being told by Trump’s sons, “What you’re talking astir isn’t adjacent an option.”

Hicks did not play a salient relation successful the last weeks Trump was successful office.

The committee has sought to beryllium passim its probe and nationalist hearings that assorted individuals surrounding Trump did not judge the predetermination was stolen oregon successful the erstwhile President’s predetermination lies and told him so.

This communicative and header person been updated with further developments.