NYT: Hope Hicks resigning White House in coming weeks

[fleur-de-lisa]

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

1. Wowza!

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. Who saw that coming ?

[MelissaB]

16. I didn't know what to expect from her, but hoped she would make a deal w/ Muller.

[magicarpet]

53. Nice if she met up with Mueller....

... and he had the FBI put a wire on her about six months ago. And has been wearing this wire at the West Wing collecting all sorts of juicy info on this den of vipers for team Mueller.

Just imagine the incriminating evidence she could have gathered. Wouldn't that be a riot.

[BigmanPigman]

54. Apparently he berated her after the testimony

and asked her how she could be so stupid. That was the last straw.

[HAB911]

2. Lawyer up sweetheart

[spooky3]

5. My hunch is that shell get a cushy job somewhere else

In the Koch network or similar.

[HAB911]

9. no doubt

[nycbos]

13. I would be shocked if she hasn't already.

She has been interviewed by the special counsel.


You would have to be really stupid to walk into an interview with Mueller without legal representation.

[bdamomma]

49. Exactly

jumping ship??? what a jerk.

[Exotica]

51. she did in September

White House communications director Hope Hicks retains lawyer in Russia probe

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/08/hope-hicks-white-house-lawyer-russia-trump-242519

[Horse with no Name]

59. I heard them say this am

She has a team of lawyers ....

[spooky3]

3. Nicole Wallace now reporting this on MSNBC.

[COLGATE4]

6. Perhaps to become "Mrs. Donald Trump" IV???

[Ilsa]

17. Only if Melania steps down! nt

[Stallion]

26. The Bachelorette (behind Bars Edition)

the show will feature single Republican hunks jailed in the Trump scandel

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. CNN also confirming.

Link to tweet

[dhol82]

8. I will bet that nine hours of scrutiny yesterday had a major impact

Finally got fed up?
Wonder how much she knows?

[malaise]

14. The admission of lying - white lies or otherwise

Bye bye

[malaise]

10. White lies

will get you fired.

[GulfCoast66]

36. Not in this White House

Admitting you lie, however, will get you fired.

[MelissaB]

11. Anybody think she has a plea deal

or is that too much to ask for? She was there from the beginning.

[gratuitous]

12. Oh, just routine staff turnover

Said no credulous pundit ever.

[Ilsa]

22. Another name for Rachel Maddow's list.

Why will it take several weeks for her to leave? Does she need to wear a wire for awhile?

[brooklynite]

15. Anthony Scaramucci is tanned, rested and ready...

[MelissaB]

18. Oh, dear god, NO!

[Ilsa]

19. Oh, god, not the mooch. nt

[ismnotwasm]

25. Hahahahaha!

[bdamomma]

52. That is who Randi Rhodes

said who will get it. Another Trump loyalist or kiss ass.

[BannonsLiver]

20. Will she be keeping her other job as Drumpfs mistress?

[fleur-de-lisa]

24. Come on, Liver!

You know that job belongs to Ivanka.

[LAS14]

21. What do you make of the timing? Why one day after "testimony?" nt

[ismnotwasm]

23. Shes a part of that whole creepy set up there

It’s like disfunction junction

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Hmmmm . . . . no one left with whom to cavort?

[poboy2]

28. Who will steam his pants now? -eom

[fleur-de-lisa]

33. LOL!

[japple]

58. Sarah and Kellyanne are going to be doubling down...

or doing double duty.

[RandySF]

29. Another one bites the dust

[bluestarone]

30. the whitehouse continues to tumble down!!!!!!!!!!!!

gotta love this!!!

[Leghorn21]

31. If I had been involved in some shady/felonious activities in my time spent at, say,

the White House, and if I knew that federal investigators knew I had committed some, well, crimes and/or misdemeanors, then what good would it do to leave said White House?

Will Mr. Mueller forget my very existence on this planet if I move to, say, Omaha? Or will he track me down there and bust my ass?

In other words, all this leaving, stepping down, resigning - what good does it do me?

[Iliyah]

32. Didn't she say that she would not go to jail for t-rump.

[BoneyardDem]

34. All those admitted little white(house) lies not helping with future employment, I'd say

good riddance to another enabler.

[grantcart]

35. Oh man The Last Word is going to be great tonight

He has been keeping stats on communication directors length of service and deriding Hicks as the most incompetent Communications director in history.

[MelissaB]

37. "... You've reached the Robert Muller Plea Deal Office"

Link to tweet

[HopeAgain]

38. Another rat takes the leap...

[NewJeffCT]

39. Does this mean the White House will be hopeless now?

[MelissaB]

40. Yes, it does!

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Good description!

[HopeAgain]

43. That Happened in January 2016

[Rhiannon12866]

46. +1000!

[FreepFryer]

41. DONT BE SO SUSPICIOUS YALL! She's just resigning to spend more time w her lawyers. (n/t)

[Thrill]

44. She has cut her deal

Drip drip Trumpy

[gademocrat7]

45. White lies not advancing her career.

Orange jumpsuit in her future?

[DesertRat]

47. BREAKING: 45 is wasting no time looking for her replacement

Link to tweet

[rpannier]

48. Another of the 'Only the Best People' is stepping aside

Amazing how many of these 'Best People' leave with questions about criminality and/or competence

[mobeau69]

50. CNN writer for Wolf Blitzer's opening: "Losing Hope".

Yes, I think the pun was intended.

[vkkv]

55. RATS... SHIP. F**n' disgusting... nt

[Still In Wisconsin]

56. So poor Hope has passed her "use by" date...

I feel so sorry for her. Not.

[fierywoman]

57. Is there something she could reveal to Mueller if she wasn't employed by

Trump that could save her ass?