The funny thing about Hope Hicks being the person whose testimony thus far has most atomized Trump's defense is that her job used to be helping defend Trump--even telling "white lies" to do so. "White lies" are a TrumpWorld problem--they add up, and after a while, they stop being quite so white, because there is a lot of dirt underneath. Like snow that has been trampled--it all mixes with the mud eventually.
We are told she broke down on the stand at the start of cross examination, and some folks have speculated as to why--why, then?
I have a notion--secrecy is prized far more highly than honesty in TrumpWorld, and the penalty for honesty can be high. For a long time, Hicks was able to tell white lies and stay in the good graces of "the family", but even though Trump had nothing to say on leaving the courtroom (being a bit more sandbagged with reporters over Merchan's unceremonious dumping of Trump's "I can't testify because of the gag order boo hoo" whinge) to properly articulate (to the best of his current abilities) his displeasure, it will be felt.
I mean, doesn't she know that perfectly well? TrumpWorld gives you fame and fortune and protection--but you need to always be covering up. And if you step out of line, Trump can be especially tough on women. Hope Hicks was there, just on the other side of it.
You know, like watching him savage women who came out with claims of sexual harassment and assault.
Maybe the blast won't come directly from Trump; he's under a gag order after all. But it might come from a surrogate, because he always has those--people who speak up for him out of a feeling of loyalty. People who might just say anything.
Rick Wilson has famously coined the phrase "Everything Trump touches dies." It's the corruption he spreads that does it, I think, it undermines people, their sense of reality, honesty, character. It's easy in retrospect to see how he does it; it's hard to see how people get enmeshed in TrumpWorld and simply didn't know what they had got into in the first place. I may be a bit uncharitable.
But at least she's coming clean here. If nothing else, it's a start.
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Short skirt, long legs ... is she auditioning for of shot on Fox?
Since the 80's anyone who's not lived in a cave has witnessed enough of Trump to know how obnoxious he is not to mention his baggage. All of Trump's apologists, past or present, knew what they were doing when they signed on and Hope Hicks is no exception. I agree with Lawrence O'Donnell's question "Why didn't she quit".
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