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19995 11 WIRETAP ith three screens in his White House bedroom, the president was his own best cable y Y curator. But for print he depended on Hope Hicks. Hicks, who had been his junior aide for most of the campaign and his spokesperson (although, as he would point out, he was really his own spokespers
the media that could not be positively spun. The day after his “reset” speech before the joint session of Congress presented a certain conundrum for Hicks. Here were the first generally good notices for the administration. But in the Post, the Times, and the New Yorker that day, there was also an ugly b
kely someone from the Obama White House) saying that the new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had, on two occasions, met with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. When the president was shown the story, he didn’t see its significance. “So what?” he said. Well, during his confirmation, it was explained to the
Advisor Michael Flynn (after just 25 days in office), and Press Secretary Sean Spiceriag Close personal aides to Trump including Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, John McEntee, and Keith Schiller quit or were forced out 1431 Some, including Hicks and McEntee, later returned to the White House in different po
were in contact with Russian officials both before and after the November election. 61 62 on December 29, 2016, Flynn talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions that https://en.wthipedia.org/wiki/DonaldTrump EFTA00263393 5/22t22, 1:11 PM Donald Trump - Wikipedia were imposed that same da
reign entity during the campaign." =E244, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks in November "The campaign had no cont=ct with Russian officials." — Hicks, also in November<=span> "This i= a nonstory because, to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place, so it's hard to =ake a comment on somet
ls between the Trump campaign an= Russia during the final seven months of the 2016 campaign. Several of these involved Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The Trump team =as previously denied any contact with the Russians during the campaign on multiple occasions. =ere's a sampling: "There wa= no com
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