Hope Hicks to aide on Jan. 6: 'We all look like domestic terrorists now'

[babylonsister]

And she was right!


Blog Briefing Room
Hope Hicks to aide on Jan. 6: ‘We all look like domestic terrorists now’
by Jared Gans - 01/02/23 8:11 AM ET


Former White House aide Hope Hicks told a fellow aide in text messages during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that “We all look like domestic terrorists now” as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

Texts released by the House select committee investigating that day show Hicks texting with Julie Radford, former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump, as the violence unfolded. 

“In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter,” Hicks said, apparently referring to former President Trump. 

Radford responded “Yup,” seemingly agreeing. 

“And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed,” Hicks said, also saying she is “so mad and upset,” adding “We all look like domestic terrorists now.”

“Oh yes I’ve been crying for an hour,” Radford replied. 

Hicks texted that former White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned about a month before the attack, looked like a “genius.” 

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[Solly Mack]

1. It's a bit amusing that she thinks that one day, albeit a horrible one, is the one day that

tainted them forever.

She worked for Trump, she defended Trump, she enabled Trump all the other days too.

Those days are nothing to brag about either.

[brush]

14. Yes, she was certainly a long-time enabler of the orange turd.

She and many others are permanently tainted — sort of in a Monica Lewinsky-type purgatory.

It's not as bad as the many others who face possible criminal charges though.

[Solly Mack]

15. January 6 was the culmination, the direct result of, every single day before.

Yep. Permanently tainted. All of them.

[karynnj]

28. She might be right

Had January 6 and the related actions such as denying a normal transition and the preposterous lawsuits not happened, I think she would have been seen as partisan, but nit a pariah. Look at the contrast with Griffin who resigned in early December.

Prior to Trump, the most disgraced President was Nixon. Consider the career of Diane Sawyer, who was in his administration and worked post presidency with him on his autobiography. In spite, or maybe helped by this prominence, she had a long, successful career. There was also Safire, who had a long term column in the NYT Even more prominent consider Henry Kissinger, who was very close to Nixon and then a power in several later administrations.

Not equating GWB and Trump, but many Bush people are not just successful, but many are on MSNBC. I suspect that had Trump accepted defeat, the normal process of rehabilitating any leader to better create our American mythology would have led to those credentials being at least not negative within 5 to 10 years.

[Solly Mack]

34. I'm sure there will be exceptions who are sought out.

Sanders was elected governor, but she still carries the taint of Trump.

The smell will linger regardless of what they go on to do.

As for some of your examples, well, the things that some people choose to forget is telling and it ain't telling anything good.

[Traildogbob]

36. All she can do now

Is Hope the Hicks she laid down with don’t start cooperating to save their own asses and take her down with other top of the Coup dreamers. She was baited with the taste of power. More addictive than any other drug.

[Bev54]

44. I find it interesting that all those employees had no doubt what so ever who was responsible.

[Solly Mack]

45. Yep. They knew because they knew exactly what he was capable of doing.

They knew it could happen before it did. They kept indulging him and defending him.

[tanyev]

2. Oh dear, oh dear, did that violent treasonous coup attempt where several people died

and many were injured hurt Hope’s future employment opportunities??

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Enable The Minataur...

...get gored by the horns.
No sympathy here.

[FalloutShelter]

4. Yep ...

First you feed the tiger… then you ride the tiger…
Then the tiger eats you.

[judesedit]

6. I like that

[Aristus]

26. It's the basis for an old limerick.

There once was a lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
She went out for a ride,
And came back inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger

[judesedit]

38. Lol Thanx!

[enough]

5. Those poor dears.

[niyad]

7. "look like"???? No, you clueless twit, you all ARE.

[Pobeka]

17. +1 nt

[LuckyCharms]

8. Self delete. I posted the same thought as niyad above. n/t

[EYESORE 9001]

11. I self-deleted some things before posting

They had to do with getting passed around the office like a…well, you know…

[LuckyCharms]

12. .

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Look like terrorists?!? ARE terrorists!!!

I don’t hold out much hope for Hope’s career.

[Rebl2]

27. Maybe a greeter

at Walmart or some such place like that.

[EYESORE 9001]

35. Fluffer? Is that still a thing?

I haven’t sought porn since the advent of the internet, and I don’t know the scale of porno production in the San Fernando valley. Then again, I wouldn’t want her to displace someone more qualified. Hope’s experience is limited to a handful of WH twerps and dweebs.

[Midnight Writer]

47. Mushroom fluffing doesn't prepare one for the real world.

[mitch96]

10. "look like domestic terrorists now".. well if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and LOOKS

Like a duck...well...DUH...
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[brush]

16. Indeed. Heehee.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

13. Poor baby.

Bless her shriveled and blackened heart.

[fightforfreedom]

18. Look like?

They are domestic terrorists and traitors. Get it right Hope Hicks.

[LaMouffette]

19. They knew he was a snake when they put him in their pocket. And if they didn't know it in the

beginning, they should have learned that basic truth when he inadvertently TOLD him he was a snake with the snake poem the Orange Turd loved so much he would recite it at rallies:

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Of course, the crowds at the rallies were too stupid to realize he was talking about himself, but Hope Hicks and others should have known.

[onetexan]

22. yup they knew the Con had sold his soul to the devil yet they willingly hooked their train to his &

went off the cliff with him. Damn fools!

[LaMouffette]

39. Seems to me like Repube politicians ask themselves just two questions:

1. Will this help or hurt me financially?

2. Will this help or hurt my political career?

They thought they would benefit from a Trump presidency both financially and politically.

The two questions Repube's never ask are:

1. Will this help or hurt America's national security?

2. Will this help or hurt Americans making less than $100,000 a year?

[sarchasm]

20. Bless their little hearts ...

...for thinking working for or around a 'pussy-grabber' was a solid career move in the first place.

[ffr]

21. Now?!!! Honey, you WERE and ARE domestic terrorists and TRAITORS to the United States!

Your kind's mantra neither upholds the values of a 50 state union nor individual democratic rights.

You're about minority rule and oppression, which are not U.S. values.

[jaxexpat]

23. What a electronic gossipy bunch of morons.

[CanonRay]

24. "If we lay down with dogs, then we will get up with fleas"

1 Corinthians 15:33-34

Fuck her and all the other enablers.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. Cue the smokey-eyed doe in the headlights meme for Hicks.

KY......

[UTUSN]

29. Note to HICKS: You should have figured out who Drumpf was in 2015. Most of us did.

[ananda]

30. Lol. Look like???

[Fiendish Thingy]

31. The delicious irony is that Hicks LEFT and then CAME BACK

What a maroon.

[area51]

33. +1

She's such a dumbass.

[FakeNoose]

32. Hope Hicks is one of the staffers who quit immediately after the November election

Many of them were gone before the crazy "Stop the Steal" plan was formed, because they were out looking for new jobs. Some claimed they were out with Covid, and that may have been true too. But my point is, they KNEW or suspected what Chump was cooking up after the election was lost. They KNEW they wanted no part of it, just as Mike Pence knew.

I've been on DU for long enough to remember when we made fun of Hope on almost a daily basis. But I do give her credit for getting the hell out of the White House and having nothing to do with the attempted coup.

If she had really wanted to be the heroine, she could have blown the whistle beforehand and told the media and the voters what Chump was doing. But that's also true for Mike Pence, Pat Cipollone and others too. They weren't heroes, not by a long shot.

[Marthe48]

37. Yes, yes you are

domestic terrorists, saboteurs, the enemy within the gate. All that and so much more.

[H2O Man]

40. Recommended.

[Thunderbeast]

41. I am a bit amused at all the pretty young women who are agrieved.

They seek sympathy because they "will never work in this town again".

Just what skills and experience did they bring to Washington to help the American people? They were NEVER serving us! They they were the toadies for the fascists and the office decoration to fulfill Trump's sick fantasies.

They are not entitled to the respect that comes with the education and deep understanding of issues leading to beneficial policy decisions. They were enablers for those wishing to destroy this nation.

They were models, aspiring actresses, and well-connected daughters of the aristocracy that caught Trump's eye. They now cry that their reputations as credible policy operatives have been forever tarnished. They are unaware of how the real world sees them.

No serious President would have put them in such important positions in the first place.

[Irish_Dem]

55. TOS prevents me from outlining Hope's skills and experience used in the WH.

[niyad]

56. She steamef his pants. . .

[Irish_Dem]

57. Probably in more ways than one.

[niyad]

59. . . .

[Martin68]

42. Yeah, there was a lot of self-pitying and frightened whining immediately after Jan 6 - and then they

pulled the wagons into a circle and doubled down.

[GoCubsGo]

43. Bed. Made. Lie.

I'm surprised she is capable of that kind of introspection, to be honest, given she's just another opportunist ratbastard. May she rot in prison along with the rest of them.

[paleotn]

46. To be honest, if I saw "served in the Trump White House" on a CV....

I'd have drop it in the circular file long before Jan 6.

[vlyons]

48. and she worked for Trump for how many years?

Even after his phony school and phony charity got caught in fraud? Actions have consequences.

[LiberalFighter]

49. The unemployment factor needs to be stressed hard.

[Desert Dog]

50. Capitol Response Drill

I know it would be optical BS, but I wish Biden and DC defense forces would do a response drill of what should have happened on Jan 6th. Might be too late now with house turnover pending. If it was done now, GOP would act like it was their idea after taking "control". "Why didn't Pelosi do it?"

The idea is like a fire drill. Sound the alarm. Capitol police pour out of the building with real equipment support and create defend-able perimeters - say maybe top of the steps. Local DC police back them up as soon as possible. An overwhelming number of snipers line the roof line. Then after about 20 minutes, a metric butt load of national guard poor out of the capitol doors, run down the steps with bayonets (doing stabbing motions) and cover the entire grounds. Maybe set up some defense bunkers on the surrounding lawn. The guard could come in waves via the other building connected to the underground network. Buses of NG pull up to something like library of congress, go through tunnels and then exit capitol doors. Back up about 30 patty wagons and do a mock ass dragging of terrorists being trucked off.

While this would surely give away defense tactics, it would also show the domestic terrorists and foreign adversaries what a capitol defense should look like. Deterrent, ya know. It would also be a GREAT contrast for what Trump avoided doing. We should have done it on the 1st anniversary of Jan. 6th. Trump would flip his freakn lid. He always wanted to show military power like a dictator. This defense exercise would make great media and draw more attention to Jan 6 attack on Democracy.

[niyad]

58. Maybe they had other things on their minds. . saving democracy. Covid.

Economy. Getting important legislation passed. War in Ukraine. Repairing the Capitol. Perhaps they felt that was more important than outting on a multi-million dollar show to smack the pukes.

[DeeDeeNY]

51. About Julie Radford -

Am I wrong to still be incensed that my hard-earned tax dollars went to pay for a chief of staff for Ivanka?

[Martin Eden]

52. When you attatch yourself to a vile piece of excrement

You should expect to acquire a stench that can't be washed off.

[JHB]

53. Guess what, Hicks? It's not just a look.

[Irish_Dem]

54. All she cared about was image and future earning potential.

No concern about damage to others, democracy or the country.

[Hekate]

60. To think that all her sacrifices ironing Trump's pants while he was in them might have gone to waste

My heart just bleeds for her.

[Cha]

61. Who knew Hope Hicks would

come out with the Winning Statement regarding Jan 6?!