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Fiona Hill on Tuesday said she never expected to work for the Trump administration for long and always kept a box under her White House desk in which she could pack her belongings in the event she had to leave.
"By the time I got in ... there were so many people that had already gone out the revolving door," Hill said during an event with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "I kept a box under my desk just to kind of put my stuff in in case I had to leave." To Hill's point, the Trump administration had an extraordinarily high turnover rate.
Hill, the top Russia expert in the White House under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019, became a key figure in Trump's first impeachment over his dealings with Ukraine. She offered bombshell testimony that painted a damning picture of a shadowy effort to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into launching investigations into Joe Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016 election.
Unlike many other figures who worked in the White House under Trump - among the most controversial US presidents - Hill was not tainted by her association with the administration. During Tuesday's event, Hill was asked to explain how she maintained her integrity and to reflect on her time in the White House.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fiona-hill-kept-box-under-184959410.html
MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)would make a person keep an escape box under their desk. Horrific. Fiona Hill is a warrior. Yes she is.
certainot
(9,090 posts)was basically saying team limbaugh and 1500 radio stations were putin tools
Kid Berwyn
(14,939 posts)Weaponized RW mass media squeal a giant dog whistle of hate 24/7/366.
msfiddlestix
(7,284 posts)I just can't recall if she resigned or was fired. I feel like it's a big blank in my memory files.
It's like we had the impeachment trial, the vote not to impeach by the fascists enablers in the Senate, then the State of the Union, when Nancy Pelosi tore up his speech from the dias, then Covid happened. and so many other things happened.
So when did Fiona Hill leave, and did resign or was she fired?
Cha
(297,503 posts)What any sane person would do!