Hope Hicks, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, lashed out at a White House colleague during the January 6, 2021 insurrection by saying “now we all look like domestic terrorists” and as a result failed to find new places to live at Work. .
Text messages released by the House Select Committee investigating the attack show Hicks texting Julie Radford, Ivanka Trump’s former chief of staff, as Trump supporters besieged the US Capitol.
Hicks complained that the insurrection destroyed their employability.
“In one day he ended any future opportunity that did not include speeches at the local Proud Boys chapter,” Hicks said, apparently referring to the then-president and the far-right Proud Boys group.
“Yes,” Radford replied.
“And all of us who didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed,” Hicks added. “I’m so upset and angry.”
“Now we all look like domestic terrorists,” he added.
Radford replied, “Oh yeah, I cried for an hour.”
“Not to be dramatic, but we’re all freaking out,” Hicks said in another message, adding that “Alyssa looks like a genius” for quitting, referring to Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned as White House communications director weeks ago. Trump. lost the 2020 election.
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Later in the day, Hicks wrote to Radford: “Are you attacking the VP? What’s wrong with him?
During the riot at the Capitol, Trump tweeted that his Vice President, Mike Pence, “didn’t have the guts” to help him overturn the election. Pence was inside the Capitol to witness the certification of Electoral College results; he was forced to flee as Trump supporters, some of whom called for him to be hanged, forced their way into the building.
Hicks was interviewed by the commission on Jan. 6 as part of testimony aired at the most recent public hearing last month. She said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election and is concerned that Trump is damaging his legacy by spreading sanitized information about the results.
When he expressed those concerns to Trump, he said, Trump said something like, “You know, nobody’s going to care about my legacy if I lose, so it’s not going to matter. The only thing that matters is winning.”
After his departure from the Trump administration, Hicks worked on Pennsylvania hedge fund executive David McCormick’s U.S. Senate campaign, which he lost to Trump-backed candidate Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary.
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