Why the Hell Is Hope Hicks Getting Off Easy?

[demmiblue]

Source: The Daily Beast

What the hell is wrong with Hope Hicks?

The White House communications director spent at least part of this taxpayer-funded week on the job helping draft a fawning statement in defense of her boyfriend on behalf of her boss. The boyfriend, White House staff secretary Rob Porter, was accused of abusing both of his ex-wives. Hicks’ boss is White House chief of staff John Kelly, a former general who, despite months ago spending some of his taxpayer-funded time pontificating to the press corps on how women used to be “sacred,” reportedly knew about the alleged spousal abuse for months and signed off on the statement anyway.

Kelly and others even encouraged Porter to “stay and fight” the charges, the worst possible choice of words one could use in defending a domestic abuser. According to former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the White House also attempted to frame Lewandowski for the leak that led to Porter’s resignation.

What the hell is wrong with the White House? What the hell is wrong with John Kelly? And last but certainly not least: Why the hell is Hope Hicks getting off easy?

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-hell-is-hope-hicks-getting-off-easy

[tazkcmo]

1. We don't know

What Mueller knows.

[dchill]

2. Rob Porter: Boyfriend? ...

Or beard?

[edhopper]

6. my thoughts

exactly. Same with Lewandowski.

[missingm]

3. I would have fired her for carrying on a relationship with a co-worker

Lewendowski, Porter, and who knows who else.

At her level and theirs the extra drama is mostly definitely a no-no. These aren't intern level jobs...

[MaryMagdaline]

5. At some point do we say a powerful woman

Should not be sleeping with subordinates?

[Drahthaardogs]

18. In the feds that is ALWAYS sexual harrassment

Even if consensual.

But this is the Trump Orangehouse where fucking crazy is the new normal.

[Amaryllis]

23. Crazy and laws no longer apply.

[MaryMagdaline]

27. That's what I thought!

[edhopper]

7. We know

who else

[IluvPitties]

11. Jared and Ivanka?

[HipChick]

12. Porter was living with another woman while dating Hicks..

Sounds more like a 'Beard' position since Corey was no longer available...

[DUgosh]

4. I want to see her texts with Rob Porter

[BigmanPigman]

8. I just wrote that as a reply

in a diff post. She has a personal relationship with a known abuser and that is her choice/problem. Writing a letter with Kelly that protects a person who the FBI has warned you about is a national security issue and she is as guilty as Kelly in the cover up.

[ProudLib72]

25. Now that is interesting to speculate about

Hicks is seemingly innocuous/unimportant by the apparent lack of media coverage. But she is the highest paid person in the administration, and she drafted this letter with Kelly. I would not call that innocuous or unimportant. Just what else does she get up to that isn't being covered? Put aside the juvenile innuendo and ask what is going on that she is "involved" with Lewandowski first and then Porter. I think the WH wants us to dwell on her playing footsies under the table with these guys (and tRump) because it's a distraction from her real position.

[jodymarie aimee]

9. Because Donnie

loves loves loves her!!

[elfin]

10. She gets off easy because she is pretty. These guys are all "hoping" to be next for her affections.

As simple and as sexist as that.

I think this whole latest thing is about HER. Bully (and married) Corey was her previous boyfriend. He was dropped, and bully Porter with nasty marital past was (and still is) the next. Corey hates Porter because he has Hope now. Gets Porter out of the picture by nudging the story to the Daily News.

High School crap. Hope may sink them all. A pretty woman.

[iluvtennis]

19. Exactly. That's keeping it real

[gibraltar72]

21. In the parlance of motorcycle "clubs"

There are old ladies. There are mamas, then there are those who pull the train.

[politicaljunkie41910]

13. She gets off easy because no one took her serious in the first place.

There was a rumor when she first came to the White House that Trump was banging her. If not now, I'm sure he hit it at least once. She then went to Trump aide Corey Lowendowsky and then to Porter. Obviously she gets passed around. The reason she's there is that she's eye candy. No other reason.

[Merlot]

14. Look at her family business, it's PR

She's like any other young person with family professional connections. No one believes they are there for any other reason. She didn't need to sleep with trumpft to get the job and saying so is sexist.

[rainin]

16. In this case, I don't think it's sexist at all.

Trump doesn't value smart women, he wants them to have long skinny legs and big boobs. Is it sexist to say it when it's so obviously true?

He keeps very few women around. She rarely talks, so she's there for some other reason. Male pleasure is not really a stretch here.

[getagrip_already]

15. She is on the family plan.......

NOBODY is going to throw her under the bus. She is the next ex.

[PatSeg]

17. She certainly has bad taste in men

That could be her primary crime or she is more manipulative than she looks. Nothing about this White House surprises me anymore.

[Miigwech]

20. She will eventually get caught in the snare

Just staying quiet in public won't protect her from trump porta potty overflow.

[LanternWaste]

22. Fire and Fury (Chapter 11)

"To the senior staff, she (Hope Hicks) seemed not only too young and too inexperienced—she was famous among campaign reporters for her hard-to-maneuver-in short skirts—but a way-too-overeager yes woman, always in fear of making a mistake, ever tremulously second-guessing herself and looking for Trump’s approval. But the president kept rescuing her—“Where’s Hope?”—from any oblivion others tried to assign her to. Baffling to almost everyone, Hicks remained his closest and most trusted aide, with, perhaps, the single most important job in this White House: interpreting the media for him in the most positive way it could be interpreted, and buffering him from the media that could not be positively spun..."

[jalan48]

24. A regular Payton Place at the White House.

[elehhhhna]

26. Perhaps she's a masochist. Look at her boss and boyfriend.

[mcar]

28. I'm a 30+ year PR professional

Hope Hicks' actions go so far beyond unethical, I don't even have a word for them.