The House Jan. 6 committee is interviewing Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to former President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
FILE - Counselor to the President Hope Hicks arrives with President Donald Trump at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nev., on Sept. 12, 2020. The House Jan. 6 committee is interviewing Hicks, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The Oct. 25, 2022, interview comes as the investigation is winding down and as the panel has subpoenaed Trump for an interview in the coming weeks.
FILE - Counselor to the President Hope Hicks arrives with President Donald Trump at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nev., on Sept. 12, 2020. The House Jan. 6 committee is interviewing Hicks, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The Oct. 25, 2022, interview comes as the investigation is winding down and as the panel has subpoenaed Trump for an interview in the coming weeks.
Tuesday’s interview comes as the investigation is winding down and as the panel has subpoenaed Trump for an interview in the coming weeks. The person requested anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting. Hicks did not play a major role in the White House response to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, in which hundreds of Trump’s supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. The longtime Trump communications aide was still working there at the time but left the White House in the days afterward.
Still, Hicks had been one of Trump’s most trusted aides. And she was looped in on some texts and emails that day ahead of the then-president’s speech outside the White House and before the violence unfolded, according to CNN, which obtained copies of texts turned over by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.Hicks is no stranger to investigations of her former boss.