Tump is much stupider than anyone thinks...Hope Hicks an example
For whatever reasons Hope Hicks was some kind of support for Trump. That is what has been said, and I accept that. He relied on her. No matter what we say about Trump, we all agree that being President of the United States is a very tough job...Tremendous responsibility, power, etc..
So, Hicks testifies to Congress, and has difficulty telling the truth. After an obvious struggle, she comes up with some sort of compromise in her mind about telling the truth. Tough job in the Trump administration, but she found a way to do that. So, she tells the truth. What does Trump do? He calls her "stupid" for telling the truth.
Here is a person who helps you to do one of the most difficult jobs in the world, an advisor, and he puts her down for telling the truth to Congress. She is supposed to tell the truth, and took an oath to do so. So he puts her down for doing so. He couldn't keep his mouth shut to someone who he relied on for help to do a difficult job. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut. That is all, and he couldn't do it. Trump had to put her down, and call her "stupid" for struggling and working out a way to "tell the truth."
This says more about Trump than anyone can imagine. He didn't support her for her struggle. He didn't realize how important that issue was/is to her. He put her down. That is who Trump is.
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And now, so does Muehler. 
"Dear Diary, today donnie had me escort russian politicians to his dining room for a private meeting. He had me sit in ....".
or
"Dear Diary, when will Donnie learn to use email? I have to do everything for him, and translating putins emails about loan guarantees isn't easy!"
but it's highly unlikely that she left because he got in a snit. My best guess is that they both realized how much trouble she was in, that she would have to testify about what she continued to witness in the WH, not just the past, and that both agreed she needed to get out.
Here's a NYMag article. It's notably friendly to Hicks, and I'm not buying a picture of a sweet, loyal Labrador (who could somehow coexist pristinely for years with a pack of wild, vermin-infested hyenas). But this journal has a lot of good connections in NY society and is one of the ones to check for insights into "family," which everyone says Hicks had mostly become. It suggests she stayed because she felt he needed her, and over the past two tumultuous days most talking heads seem to be agreeing that she did play an important role in stabilizing the WH.
On Wednesday, the New York Times broke the news that Hicks will be resigning as the White House communications director, the 13th prominent White House official to leave during the first 13 months of the administration. But Hicks is unlike the other 12; a figure of such singular importance to the president that two sources close to him speculated — separately — to New York that she may outrank Ivanka, his own daughter.
Life at Trump’s side was always complicated for Hicks, but her decision came at an unusually riotous time, after the Russia investigations coaxed her into view throughout the fall and winter, and the destruction of her new relationship collided with the country’s national security in the most public way, inviting questions about her personal and professional judgement. A silly tabloid story about Hicks dating another member of the White House staff, Rob Porter, quickly transformed into a serious tabloid story about allegations of physical abuse against Porter from both of his ex-wives. ...
In her suddenly weakened position, Hicks became a target of the very sort of palace intrigue she had worked to float above even as it violently submerged everyone around her on the campaign and in the White House. ...
In the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees ... she is of acute interest: The special counsel interviewed her in December and she recently appeared in front of the Senate Intel Committee. Hicks’s resignation directly followed eight hours of testimony on Tuesday before the House Intel Committee, where she said she sometimes told white lies on behalf of Trump, an admission that made worldwide news. It also followed the resignation of Josh Raffel — a spokesperson for Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner — whom Hicks considers her best friend.
And why would Hicks stay in a place where she didn’t know who she could trust for so long? “Once you’re in, you’re in,” the source said shortly before Hicks’s resignation, “I think that’s the way she looks at it. I think he depends on her so much that she views it like it would be abandoning the cause — not even abandoning the cause, I think it’s abandoning him.” But after years of sacrificing her needs in order to give to someone else, Hicks began to feel consumed by her loneliness and existential questions about her priorities in life.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/hope-hicks-didnt-break-overnight.html
I do find credible the notion that Hicks may have had new lonely, existential concerns borne in on her by those 8 hours of being unable to tell the truth.
Only he didn't realize someone else got to make changes to the script.
