MADRID, 3 years old. (PRESS EUROPE) –
Hope Hicks, who was a White House adviser under former US President Donald Trump, stressed during the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol that the incident left everyone who had worked for the New York tycoon in a bad situation. she warned that all of them had become “domestic terrorists”.
In a series of text messages exchanged with Julie Radford, the former press secretary of Ivanka Trump, daughter of the former president, Hicks said Trump had killed any “future opportunity that didn’t include talk of the Proud Boys,” an ultranationalist and far-right organization, according to information from the news portal The Hill.
“Now we all look like terrorists,” he said later, as revealed by documents collected by the House of Representatives Committee investigating what happened that day when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Congress to stop the ratification of votes of the elections that gave victory to the current president, Joe Biden.
Hicks warned that the vast majority of Trump’s advisers, especially those who weren’t in prime positions or had good jobs before the crash, “would be out of work forever.” “I’m angry and distressed,” she stressed in her messages, to which Radford replied, assuring that she had been crying “for an hour.”
The two women also faced the resignation of former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned a month before the assault and, according to Hicks and Radford, “was a genius.”
The Capitol Storm Commission has released numerous witness transcripts over the past week ahead of the plenary session in which the conclusions of its investigation will be established. Members of it finalized their final report last month and advised Trump to be charged with the commission of four felonies, although this decision is not binding.
Although the decision is now in the hands of the Justice Department, this is the first time a US parliamentary committee has recommended that a former president be brought to justice for committing crimes.
