Former White House aide Hope Hicks will appear before the House Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill.
Hicks, who worked for the Trump Organization and the election campaign before entering the White House, has been considered one of the former president’s closest advisers.
She served in the White House as Director of Communications. He left the administration in 2018 for Fox News, but returned in February 2020 for Trump’s final year in office.
The appearance of his figure shows that the Committee continues to interview people close to Trump. He previously had an “informal interview” with the Committee.
According to reports, he told Trump that he had lost the presidential election.
In The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, the authors quote Trump: “Well, Hope doesn’t believe in me.” “No,” Hicks replied. “No one has convinced me otherwise.”
“When you look back at what has emerged through the work of this Committee, the most startling fact is that all of the evidence has come almost entirely from Republicans,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming.)
The Committee has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including several White House aides, and established that Trump was repeatedly told by some of his closest aides that he had lost the 2020 election.
But the then president continued to spread false claims of widespread voter fraud. His supporters who stormed the Capitol repeated them.
Late last week, the Committee sent a letter to Trump’s lawyers demanding their testimony, either on Capitol Hill or via videoconference, beginning Nov. 14 and continuing for several days if necessary.
The letter also asked him to produce documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress. Trump has not yet responded to the subpoena.
The Committee held nine hearings and is expected to present a final report this year.
