Hicks told House panel Trump is serious about foreign help in elections

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON - Hope Hicks, a once close aide to President Donald Trump, told the House Judiciary Committee that Trump was serious in saying there was nothing wrong in accepting derogatory information about political opponents from a foreign government, panel Chairman Jerrold Nadler said on Thursday.

"Ms. Hicks made clear that she understood the president to be serious when he said that he would accept foreign interference in our elections," Nadler said in a statement for a hearing on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"She also made clear that even she knew that such foreign assistance should be rejected and reported to the FBI," he said.

Hicks, who was Trump's campaign press secretary and his White House communications director, spent eight hours in a closed-door committee hearing on Wednesday. But she refused to answer questions about her 14-month White House tenure after administration attorneys said she was immune from testifying on the topic.

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[trev]

1. Was there ever any doubt? nt

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I don't understand how these people are immune from testifying.

Was she a federal employee or was she employed by Trump privately? If she received a check from the government, she needs to answer the damned questions.

[UpInArms]

3. there is no "immunity" from testimony

there can be "immunity" from prosecution, but that is subject to the court's approval.

[hedda_foil]

4. She was both. She was employed by the campaign and then by the administration.

[obamanut2012]

8. She isn't -- there is literally no such thing as aboslute immunity

In her testifying.

[riversedge]

5. so, nations are gearing up and looking for smut to get favor from Trump. damn, we

are in trouble--our Nation is in trouble

[mpcamb]

6. She ... knew that such foreign assistance should be rejected and reported to the FBI"

That alone should land her ass in jail.

[Harker]

7. I suppose she couldn't plead the fifth

after Trumpsky said, "the mob takes the fifth..."

[Vegas Roller]

9. Of course he is

He can't get elected without the help of his pimp Putin.