Hope Hicks, a former White House advisor under former U.S. President Donald Trump, said during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the incident left all those who had worked for the New York tycoon in a very bad light and warned that all of them had come to be considered «domestic terrorists».
In a series of text messages exchanged with Julie Radford, former press officer of Ivanka Trump, the former president’s daughter, Hicks asserted that Trump had ended any «opportunity for the future that did not include conversations about the Proud Boys», an ultra-nationalist and extreme right-wing organization, according to information from the news portal The Hill.
«Now we all look like terrorists,» he said at the time, as revealed by documents collected by the House Committee investigating what happened that day when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Congress to stop the ratification of the election votes that gave the victory to the current president, Joe Biden.
Hicks warned that the vast majority of Trump advisers, especially those who did not hold a privileged position or have a good job before the incident, «would be out of work forever.» «I am angry and distraught,» she pointed out in her messages, to which Radford replied by claiming he had been «crying for an hour.»
The two women also addressed the resignation of former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned a month before the assault and, according to Hicks and Radford, «looked like a genius.»
The Capitol Hill Assault Commission has released numerous witness transcripts over the past week in preparation for a full hearing to establish the findings of its investigation. Its members finalized their final report last month and advised charging Trump with four felonies, although the decision is non-binding.
Although the decision is now in the hands of the Department of Justice, this is the first time that a U.S. congressional committee has recommended that a former president be brought to justice for committing crimes.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
